Why Is ISIS So Successful?

Three years ago the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria didn't exist and now they are if not the most one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the world. There main goal is to spread there religion and kill anyone who gets in there way which is mostly americans and other european powers. ISIS is Sunni and the Sunni religion in general hates Shia. Shia is another religion and both of these religions have been fighting for over 1,400 long years. The reason that ISIS is so successful is they are very wealthy. They take over cities that have everything they need including oil, gas, cars, money and much more. They take over cities with the people still in them so air strikes and troops wouldn't be successful due to the amount of civilians in danger. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) came to power through disaster. Most people joining ISIS have lost family members to Assad or
The US and other nations were not worried about this group when they started because everyone thought that al-Qaida was a bigger threat and ISIS wouldn't be able to grow. Once ISIS was growing in power they decided to branch off from just Iraq and move to Syria as well. Syria is going through a awful civil war and hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed. Assad is the dictator of Syria and he doesn't want to loose his power so he decided to gas his own people leaving thousands died. ISIS took this as a recruiting opportunity. They went into cities and told the people still alive that they could stop Assad and you could get your revenge for what he has done to your family and country. ISIS grew exponentially and now they are over 50,000 thousand strong In Syria1. They take disasters and make them recruiting grounds for there dangerous terrorist group. As missed up as there recruiting is, it is very