1. BELL WORK 4/5 WHY IS THE SUEZ CANAL SO IMPORTANT TO THE REGION?

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6. ISIS atrocities

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11. Note: ISIS is 100% Sunni, and has been exterminating Shi’a who they capture. Shi’a areas are in dark green.

12. ISIS in Iraq now comprises about 58% foreign fighters. (Time Magazine; June 2015)

13. August 2015: U.S. intelligence estimates ISIS has 20,000-30,000 fighters in Iraq. The number of militant fighters is at least 200,000, seven or eight times bigger than foreign in intelligence estimates of up to 31,500 men.

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25. According to MSNBC May 13, 2015: 80% of the air strikes have been by the USA So far, the U.S. had conducted 5,314 strikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria through March 15, according to Pentagon statistics; Daily Beast As of Feb 2015, the U.S. mounted 946 strikes in Syria, while Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and UAE completed 79 total. (NPR) Coalition air strikes in Iraq: Canada, Australia, France, UK, Netherlands and the USA. Iran is not part of the coalition

26. Nov 2015: Russia begins bombing of ISIL targets after ISIL claimed responsibility of downing a Russian passenger plane heading from Sinai, Egypt to St Petersburg Russia

27. Nov 19, 2015: The French President announces that France is, indeed, at war with ISIL

29. Beliefs of ISIS/ISIL 1.It has established a Caliphate and wishes to establish its own version of utopia. 2.The leader of ISIS believes that he is fighting on behalf of all Muslims. 3.Those who do not convert to its version of Islam should be executed; it wants to cleanse the world of those who do not believe what it believes. 4.Condones using fear and brutality as tactics for its supremacy. 5.By killing those who do not serve its cause, it’s making the world a better place. 6.Burying women and children alive in the name of its cause. 7.Slavery is okay. 8.It will take over parts of Africa, Asia and Europe over the next five years. 9.Violence is the path to paradise