NYTimes: A Top ISIS Leader Is Killed in an Airstrike, Pentagon Says
NYTimes: John Kerry, in Brussels, Says ISIS Is Faltering in Mideast
A View of ISIS’s Evolution in New Details of Paris Attacks – The New York Times
In Rise of ISIS, No Single Missed Key but Many Strands of Blame
The New York Times
By the time the U.S. withdrew from Iraq, it thought it had subdued the Islamic State. The group is now on a very different trajectory. Read the full story at:
https://apple.news/AMlHKWN9DTFeCNDioP4hMqw
Also, for a non-exhaustive Webliography on the rise of ISIS/Daesh, see, e.g.,
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/isil-resources
http://www.cfr.org/iraq/islamic-state/p14811
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R43612.pdf
http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/1
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/situating-the-emergence-of-the-islamic-state-of-khorasan
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/v2/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CTC-The-Group-That-Calls-Itself-A-State-December20141.pdf
http://www.economist.com/search/gcs?ss=ISIS#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=ISIS&gsc.page=1
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=legal+status+Isis+daesh+&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C10&as_sdtp=
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/analysis/2014/08/28/Prosecution-of-ISIS-poses-challenge-to-intenational-justice.html
https://www.academia.edu/9951214/The_Statehood_of_ISIS_between_practice_international_law_and_religion
http://jurist.org/hotline/2014/07/bilal-khan-force-isis.php
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2014/09/war_against_isis_in_syria_obama_s_legal_and_political_justifications.html
And for the declassified Judicial Watch-obtained 5 AUG 12 DoD Intelligence Summary on Iraq:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/pgs-287-293-291-jw-v-dod-and-state-14-812-2/
And see PBS Frontline’s
The Rise of ISIS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rise-of-isis/
and
ISIS in Afghanistan:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/isis-in-afghanistan/
and
ISIS expansion in Libya, Nigeria, Senegal:
and
Govern, Kevin H., Smart Power for Hard Problems: The Role of Special Operation Forces Strengthening the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Africa (July 10, 2013). 1 U. Balt. J. Int’l L. 154 et. seq. (2013). Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2292716