Name: Here's What ISIS Believes and How It Came to Be
Duration: 335
Description: Learn about the origins of ISIS and its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who terrorized Iraq's Shia Muslims with suicide bombers. Discover how successor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi used social media to spread international terrorism before the group weakened.

Learn about the origins of ISIS and its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who terrorized Iraq's Shia Muslims with suicide bombers. Discover how successor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi used social media to spread international terrorism before the group weakened.

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Here's What ISIS Believes and How It Came to Be

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