ISIS: An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State

Providing up-to-date information for general readers as well as those well-informed about the Islamic State, this book offers an essential understanding of the rise of ISIS and its current influence in the Middle East as well as worldwide.

• Presents the information necessary to understand ISIS: who they are, what they want, and why they represent such a unique problem to counteract

• Provides readers with the understanding of the problems in the Middle East that created ISIS and enable it to continue to exist

• Supplies accurate, insightful perspectives from a Western author who lived for nearly nine years in the Middle East fighting, studying, and advising on ISIS and similar organizations