In the aftermath of the Paris attacks,read pieces from our archive that set out the political, military and religious context of the rise of Islamic StateThis is the account of why men from all over the world maintain chosen to fight in a brutal and apocalyptic war; of what drew them to the battlefields of Iraq and Syria; and of what has kept many of them there as Europe and the west maintain scrambled to stem the flow, and first of their own nationals fleeing to join Isis and now of millions of refugees fleeing the other way.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com