1. We Interrupt this Lesson…..#1
We Interrupt this Lesson….. #1
To bring you…ISIS and the Middle East

2. What do you know about ISIS?
ISIS is a shorthand name for the _________________________________, and it has made news in the past few months….
….for its dramatic military conquest of ___________________________
….its ruthless treatment of Iraqi minorities such as the ____________
….and a string of videotaped _______________________ of Western hostages
What is ISIS?
What do you know about ISIS?

3. The situation in Iraq and Syria is complex, to say the least.
It presents a continuing humanitarian crisis, with __________________________for their lives, and _________________________________being killed.

4. It presents a threat to Middle East stability, with ISIS promising to create an _________________________, or state, erasing __________________ and imposing its own version of fundamentalist ______________.
Furthermore, ISIS presents an _____________________________to the larger world with the militant group beheading international hostages and recruiting ___________________ from across the globe.

5. (8) facts that explain the escalating crisis in Iraq Updated by Zack Beauchamp on June 13, 2014, 9:49 a.m. ET
1. ISIS used to be called __________________ in Iraq
It's essentially a ___________________________version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the _____________group that rose to power after the American invasion.
US troops and allied Sunni militias defeated AQI during the post-2006 “_________," but it didn't demolish them.
In 2011, the group rebooted. ISIS successfully ____________a number of _______________ held by the _____________government and, slowly but surely, began rebuilding their strength.
The chaos today is a direct result of the Iraqi ______________________________to stop them.

6. 2. ISIS wants to create ___________________ in Iraq and Syria
Their goal since being founded in __________ has been remarkably consistent: found a ___________________________
"They want complete failure of the government 
in Iraq. They want to
establish a ___________in ______."
Even after ISIS split with al-Qaeda in February (in large part because ISIS was _____________even for al-Qaeda), ISIS' goal remained the same.
Syria
Iraq
Area controlled by ISIS

7. 3. ISIS thrives on ______________between Iraq's two largest _______________ groups
Perhaps the single most important factor in ISIS' recent resurgence is the conflict between Iraqi ___________ and Iraqi _________________
These are the two major _________________of _______________
ISIS fighters are __________, and the tension between the two groups is a powerful recruiting tool for ISIS.
_________ run the govt and Sunnis don’t feel they are fairly represented and have been treated poorly

8. 5. ISIS _________________like a government
Police have killed peaceful Sunni ______________ and used _________________________ laws to mass-arrest Sunni civilians.
ISIS _________________ that brutality to recruit new fighters.
4. The Iraqi government has made this tension worse by ______________Sunnis and through other missteps
5. ISIS _________________like a government
In Syria, they've built up something like a mini-state: collecting the equivalent of ___________ and selling _________________ to fund its militant activities.
Some reports suggest they've restarted _________________in eastern Syria.

9. 6. Iraq has another major ethno-religious group, the _______________who could matter in this fight
Kurds are mostly ___________, but they're _________________ distinct from Iraqi Arabs.
There's somewhere between ______________________Kurdish peshmerga (militias)
They're well equipped and trained, and represent a serious ___________________to ISIS.
They have started to _________________as ISIS has attacked them

10. 7. _____________, the big city ISIS recently conquered, is really important — and ISIS has spread out from there
Mosul is the ________________________ city in Iraq
It’s fairly close to major ________________________
It’s close to the Mosul Dam which is important in the country’s _______________________________

11. ISIS has a bit more than ____________________ combat troops
The Iraqi army has _________________troops, plus armed police.
That Iraqi military also has _________________________________
But the Iraqi army is also a total mess, which explains why ISIS has had the success it's had despite being outnumbered.
Take ISIS' victory in Mosul: ____________ Iraqi troops ran from _______ISIS fighters
 Those are_________________odds! Yet Iraqi troops ran because they simply didn't want to ___________________for this government. There had been hundreds of __________________per month for months prior to the events of June 10th. The escalation with ISIS is, of course, making it worse.
8. The Iraqi Army is _______________than ISIS, but also a ____________________

12. ISIS ATROCITES
Are the airstrikes working?
News report on 4th beheading
treatment of women
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Execution of Iraqi soldiers