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ISIS At One Year

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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ISIS has come to power in a whirlwind fashion. It was in 2013 when ISIS claimed Raqa in Syria, and for the first time, a terrorist organization was managing the civil services of a city in Syria. As if that wasn't enough, on June 10th, 2014 the Islamic State invaded Iraq, taking Mosul in just a day. A few weeks later, on June 29th 2014, Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, declared its caliphate called the Islamic State, covering nearly one-third of Syria and Iraq.

The brutality of this regime is unprecedented, and its threat to Western culture is very real. So how did the Islamic State gain such power, and how is it changing the face of terrorism?

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-islamic-state-in-iraq-year-one-138780/#sSWKKE1p5PFojfuk.99

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