What is the middle east crisis

¨¨The seemingly sudden rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS) in the summer of 2014 to be- come the Middle East region's most dangerous threat has shocked and puzzled most Western observers.¨¨

-History

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