@article{article_570513, title={Rise and Fall of Isis – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) Terrorist Organization; An International Contagious Virus in the New World Order?}, journal={Florya Chronicles of Political Economy}, volume={4}, pages={1–35}, year={2018}, url={https://izlik.org/JA83YE83BK}, author={Biçer, R.s Savaş and Caşin, Mesut Hakkı}, keywords={Terror,security,war,stability,violence,Salafism}, abstract={<div>From 2013 until the winter of 2016, ISIS has been in confrontation with </div> <div>Iraqi, Syrian, and Turkish security forces, rival Free Syrian Army, Kurdish </div> <div>Peshmerga fighters, as well as Russian, Iranian and United States led </div> <div>Coalition forces. The group’s skill was confirmed by the seizure of crucial </div> <div>provinces in Syria and the quick collapse of Iraqi forces in Mosul and </div> <div>elsewhere in northern Iraq, under the determined assault of outnumbered </div> <div>fighters in the years 2014 and the beginning of 2015. ISIS’s clearance of </div> <div>the Sunni areas of the central Iraq to the west and north of Baghdad and </div> <div>the threat to the Kurdish regional areas alarmed the governments across </div> <div>the whole Middle East and the Western powers, particularly in 2015, and </div> <div>during that period, it is generally feared that Saudi Arabia and Jordan might </div> <div>be the next ISIS targets. However, in the year 2016, the strong position of </div> <div>ISIS has declined in both Syria and Iraq particularly immediately after the </div> <div>intervention of Turkish Armed Forces to the Syrian territory against ISIS </div> <div>and the re-organization of the Iraqi Army under the consultancy of United </div> <div>States advisors. </div> <div>In Middle East, ISIS marks a new threat to the regional security order, at </div> <div>a time of Arab Spring uprisings within the Arab societies and creeping </div> <div>sectarianism fueled mainly by the geostrategic rivalry between Shia and </div> <div>Sunni states of the region. ISIS not only threatens the survival of the people </div> <div>from autocratic regimes, but also the stability of neighboring countries. For </div> <div>military events on the ground to go beyond progress in resolving conflicts </div> <div>and addressing problems of which ISIS is a symptom would not form a </div> <div> <div>development as far as international security is concerned. To the extent </div> <div>that events in Syria and Iraq do have something to do with a threat of </div> <div>terrorism in the West, that threat will depend not so much on how quickly </div> <div>ISIS expires but rather on what is left after its expiration. Adapting to the </div> <div>new peaceful environment and solving Iraq and Syria problems by mutual </div> <div>understanding will empower the regional countries to limit the spread of </div> <div>this condition. Failure to do so will not only result in a durable threat from </div> <div>ISIS to the region as well as the western counties, but also flowing threats </div> <div>that rise because of continuing challenges to state structures in the Middle </div> <div>East and human security to the democracies in the West. </div> </div>}, number={1}