ISIS came to prominence under what administration ? North Korea has been an issue for almost 70 years and the Klan had the most influence when it was overwhelmingly Democratic party controlled. I respect Gen Powell not the man who supported Obama
the history of ISIS: The group was founded in 1999 and really grew up after the US invasion of Iraq. If any US president could be blamed for ISIS’s "founding," it would be
George W. Bush, not Barack Obama.
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Zarqawi returned from Afghanistan, and in 1999 in Jordan formed his own group, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (JTWJ), or the Organization of Monotheism and Jihad. For the first few years, Zarqawi's group was a bit player among jihadists, overshadowed by al-Qaeda. But this was the group, then little known, that would later become ISIS.
In 2003, the
US led its invasion of Iraq and changed, in the world of jihadists, everything.
The American-led war, by destroying the Iraqi state, left much of the country in chaos. Foreign fighters and extremists began moving into Iraq, assisted by
Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, which sought to bog down the US. Zarqawi and his group were among them.
