Terrorism as a Cause of Instability in Iraq: With Special Reference to ISIS during the 2010-2015 Period

Abstract

Since the Second World War the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa have undergone a series of socio-political and economic difficulties. Middle East has become increasingly affected by the economic crisis in the west, collapse of the Kuwaiti stock exchange in 1982 and falling oil prices in the mid- 1980s. Some important developments have taken place in the Arab Middle East in 1986. On the other hand, agricultural production and productivity has declined in all Arab countries. There have been major changes in the Arab world and Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states became major forces in the region. Iraq had some wars, conflicts because of many reasons. In 2004, the organization known as ‘al Qaeda in Iraq’. The US invasion of Iraq began in 2003, and purpose is to remove western occupation and replace it with a Sunni Islamist regime. ISIS is a world largest terrorist group in the world and control large areas of the Middle East. ISIS emerged as not just the most ruthless of the Sunni jihadist organizations in Iraq and Syria it is also the most successful. There are main objectives of this research. They are, to identify the impact of ISIS in Iraq, to discuss the involvement of intervention from neighboring countries to the terrorist activities of ISIS in Iraq, and to ascertain the ISIS’s deep impact on Iraq. The research will be descriptive documentary analysis. It utilizes the qualitative data gathered from relevant books, journals, articles, on the topics of Iraq ISIS, terrorism, Iraq instability. The finding of this research is, terrorism is a cause of instability in Iraq. This paper concludes that, how terrorism affect the instability in Iraq within 2010 to 2015 time period.