The Factors and Backgrounds Involved in the Formation of ISIS

ISIS is one of the most important developments taking place in the region as well as Iraq in relation to which the term ISIS was widely used by absorbing power from the crisis in Syria. The appearance of this group heralds the beginning of a new stage of Salafism through following Ibn Taymiyyah's and Sayyid Qutb's ways of thinking in the region and the world. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadis the leader of ISI, who tries to establish the Islamic state firstly in Iraq and Syria and then in other parts of the world by employing neu-Salafist thoughts. This group has, in the recent months, gained a power so high that it has been able to appear on the scene of Iraq, and to challenge the political and security trends in Iraq by adopting an armed approach. The present research has adopted a descriptive-analytical approach via collecting information with a library method and using internet texts. In so doing, it plans to answer this question: "What factors have contributed to the formation of ISIS in Iraq?", with the main hypothesis being that "ISIS has a significant role in Iraq's developments in Iraq. This group is a Takfiri group within the region which began to be active with the aim of establishing Islamic Emirates. There have been domestic, regional and international factors that have contributed to the formation of ISIS. The findings of this research indicate that Neu-Salafist ideology, internal factors (weak military state and forces, interacting with political groups, geographical factors, ethnical divisions, social-economic factors), regional factors (the Syrian crisis, Arabia's and Qatar's contributions in order to topple Asad's government and Turkey's cooperation with the groups opposed to Assad) and the role played by the West (under the pretext of contributing to stability in the region and Iraq, fighting the terrorists, and efforts to establish a people-based government in Syria) can be cited as being the trans-regional factors that have contributed to the formation of ISIS.