Watch: How ISIS Went Global
The group’s roots lie in the U.S. occupation of Iraq from 2003 onwards, when Jordanian extremist and ISIS’s spiritual founder Abu Musab Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, transforming his al-Tawhid wal-Jihad group into Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). [Image: Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press]

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The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) is an entity that has captivated the world. It adorns the front-pages of the world’s biggest newspapers, the television screens of millions of viewers and the policy notes of the world’s most powerful governments, for all the wrong reasons. It has risen to become the flag-bearer of the global jihad…

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