Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on war against isis. The paper aims at understanding the ISIS outfit and explores three most crucial reasons for the US to wage a war against ISIS in the ensuing paragraphs.

ISIS recent resurgence is said to be in the age-old conflict between Sunnis and Shias. Though the ideological differences between them go back to the time of the demise of Prophet Mohammed, yet the current militancy has nothing to do with that. Saddam Hussein himself was a Sunni. When the US left Iraq a few years after restoring normalcy, the democratic government that came into power had a majority of Shias. Not satisfied with the change, Sunnis began defying the rule of this newly-elected democratic government and organizing themselves under the banner of ISIS. Their motive is simply not only to topple the current government but it goes much beyond that include establishing a caliphate-based Islamic rule across the region that encompasses even Pakistan and India.

Their motives, ways and means are clearly evident in the last few months of their operations. ISIS brutalities are unparalleled and extremely dreadful that can be seen in the recent history. ISIS systematically hunts members of the other religious and ethnic groups that include Christians, Shabak, Faili Kurds, Yezidi, Sabaeans, Turkmen, Arab Shia (Al Arabia News). Women are raped and enslaved. Young girls are taken custody for sexual abuse. They not only loot banks but demand ransom for their operations. Teenagers are recruited in their army and trained to operate AK-47 rifles. Children are used as suicide bombers. Numerous soldiers of the Syrian army were beheaded outside the northern Syrian city of Raqqa a few months back. They carried out a gruesome massacre in Tikrit killing at least 700 men by letting them lie in trenches and hands completely tied to their backs. In and around Jdali, over 60 people were rounded up and shot dead. at least 650 men were executed in Mosul, and 1700 people were executed in Tikrit in&nbsp.between June and August (ISIS Atrocities).