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bashar al assad
became president of syria, at first he was a good president. -
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preparing the ground
U.S tropps arrived in iraq to topple saddam hussein with the excuse that they had weapons of mass destruction;therefore, in ordet to do so they destroyed iraq infracstructure, trained rebelious groups and gave them weapons. at the end of it they left iraq on its own. -
Osama Bin Laden
at this time osama was the leader of Al Qaeda, a sunni islamic group that was also jihadist -
Al Zarqawi
He was the leader of a small group named Monotheist and jihad organization. at this time al Zarqawi started to promote their group by filming beheadings and sharing the videos online. -
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al Zarqawi swore loyalty to Osama and the new name for the group emerged. -
Islamic State in Iraq I.S.I. (new name)
The U.S killed Al zarqawi and now Abu umar became the second in power.
at this moment they did not have money or any recruit ability. -
shiite prime minister in iraq
The first shiite elected as prime minister paved the way to more hate between shiite and sunni communities because this was never seen before. -
syria
in this year the terrorist group focused on syria which was in a civil war due to various factors such as dictatorship, and differences between the rebels groups within it. -
Abu umar is killed
Al Baghdadi takes the control of I.S.I. -
Bad president Al Assad
at this time, Bashar cannot control the country and diferent branches of rebels were in a civil war. some of those groups joined isis making it more powerful. -
Jabhat AL Nustra and I.S.I
the rebelious group Al Nustra and I.S.I. joined together attack prisions and free sunni prisioners which also were recruited. -
attacked prisions (again)
they continued attacking prisions a recruiting more and more people, they now have a really large number of soldiers. -
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (new name)
they took the power in the most imortant cities not only in syria but also in iraq -
FSA
The free syrian army asked for help in order to take down the dictatorship and E.E.U.U. supplied them with trainig money and weapons. -
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Oil traffic
They steel the oil fields and began trafficking and struggling this resource with neighboring countries. -
Caliphate stablished (
with such power the head of isis, Abu Bakr A lBaghdadi, creates a new caliphate and declare himself as the caliph of all muslims -
isis control
isis now have control of alot of cities and territories from syria and iraq, itis said they control a territory the same size as U.K. -
back to iraq
isis emerged from a no named group in syria to cross back the border into iraq. started gaining power not only because of the weapons they were given but also because of the oil fields they continued stealing. -
paris attacked
Two men attack Charlie Hebdo magazine -
Allied groups
this year allied groups were created in egypt, yemen and the saudis.