ISIS used to be al-Qaeda in Iraq. An Iraqi soldier during a fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq in January 2014. Ali al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) used to have a different name: al Qaeda in Iraq.
The AQI militants were bit-by-bit weakened by a surge in American forces in Iraq and in 2010 current IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over as head.
They later rebranded themselves as IS and the withdrawal of western troops in Iraq, completed in 2011, saw a rise in the group's violent attacks in the region.
Al-Baghdadi carried on al-Zarqawi's views that Shia Muslims were a column of Islam that should be wiped out.
IS adhere to an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and consider themselves the only true believers.
They treat the rest of the world as unbelievers who seek to destroy Islam and use that to justify attacks against other Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
IS have citied Koranic verses about "striking off the heads" of unbelievers when discussing their brutal actions.
But Fawaz A Gerges, from the London School of Economics and Political Science, said IS feel no need to justify their horrifying deeds.
The AQI militants were bit-by-bit weakened by a surge in American forces in Iraq and in 2010 current IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over as head.
They later rebranded themselves as IS and the withdrawal of western troops in Iraq, completed in 2011, saw a rise in the group's violent attacks in the region.
Al-Baghdadi carried on al-Zarqawi's views that Shia Muslims were a column of Islam that should be wiped out.
IS adhere to an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and consider themselves the only true believers.
They treat the rest of the world as unbelievers who seek to destroy Islam and use that to justify attacks against other Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
IS have citied Koranic verses about "striking off the heads" of unbelievers when discussing their brutal actions.
But Fawaz A Gerges, from the London School of Economics and Political Science, said IS feel no need to justify their horrifying deeds.
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