UPPSC 2014 General Studies I Solved Paper

(a) The full form of ISIS is Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which claimed in June, 2014 to have executed 1700 Iraqi Soldiers. It originated as Jama’at al-Tawhidwal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and participated in the Iraqi insurgency following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by western forces at the behest of the United States.