"... because I say so".There was no ISIS in 1999.
ISIS, a history: how the world's worst terror group came to be
The story starts in 1989, in Afghanistan.
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The group began, in a very different form, in 1999. In the 16 years since, it has been shaped by — and has at moments helped to shape — the conflicts, physical and ideological, of the Middle East.