- Florya Chronicles of Political Economy
- Vol: 4 Issue: 1
- Rise and Fall of Isis – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) Terrorist Organization; An Internatio...
Rise and Fall of Isis – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) Terrorist Organization; An International Contagious Virus in the New World Order?
Authors : R. S Savaş Biçer, Mesut Hakkı Caşin
Pages : 1-35
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Publication Date : 2018-04-10
Article Type : Other
Abstract :From 2013 until the winter of 2016, ISIS has been in confrontation with Iraqi, Syrian, and Turkish security forces, rival Free Syrian Army, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, as well as Russian, Iranian and United States led Coalition forces. The group’s skill was confirmed by the seizure of crucial provinces in Syria and the quick collapse of Iraqi forces in Mosul and elsewhere in northern Iraq, under the determined assault of outnumbered fighters in the years 2014 and the beginning of 2015. ISIS’s clearance of the Sunni areas of the central Iraq to the west and north of Baghdad and the threat to the Kurdish regional areas alarmed the governments across the whole Middle East and the Western powers, particularly in 2015, and during that period, it is generally feared that Saudi Arabia and Jordan might be the next ISIS targets. However, in the year 2016, the strong position of ISIS has declined in both Syria and Iraq particularly immediately after the intervention of Turkish Armed Forces to the Syrian territory against ISIS and the re-organization of the Iraqi Army under the consultancy of United States advisors. In Middle East, ISIS marks a new threat to the regional security order, at a time of Arab Spring uprisings within the Arab societies and creeping sectarianism fueled mainly by the geostrategic rivalry between Shia and Sunni states of the region. ISIS not only threatens the survival of the people from autocratic regimes, but also the stability of neighboring countries. For military events on the ground to go beyond progress in resolving conflicts and addressing problems of which ISIS is a symptom would not form a development as far as international security is concerned. To the extent that events in Syria and Iraq do have something to do with a threat of terrorism in the West, that threat will depend not so much on how quickly ISIS expires but rather on what is left after its expiration. Adapting to the new peaceful environment and solving Iraq and Syria problems by mutual understanding will empower the regional countries to limit the spread of this condition. Failure to do so will not only result in a durable threat from ISIS to the region as well as the western counties, but also flowing threats that rise because of continuing challenges to state structures in the Middle East and human security to the democracies in the West.Keywords : Terror, security, war, stability, violence, Salafism