If 2015 has a title, it would be the "bloody year," since it kicked off with the horrifying incidents of Charlie Hebdo, which claimed the lives of 12 civilians. It ended by the shooting of San Bernardino, and only God knows the surprises it hides in its final days. Since the so-called Islamic Caliphate was declared in June 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the savage group aroused horror around the world. When ISIS dominated the city of Raqqa in Syria, it destroyed all signs of civilization in the region, using innocent people to launch its mass destructive conception of Islam, justifying their savage acts by saying that they came to apply Sharia law in the world. In March 2015, the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights (OHCHR) affirmed in its report about Syria and Iraq, that ISIS have committed all the most serious international crimes, namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Upon similar reports, an UN investigation team was sent to the region late 2014. The investigation team conducted interviews with more than 100 people who witnessed or survived attacks in Iraq between June 2014 and February 2015. They documented a wide range of violations by ISIS against numerous ethnic and religious groups in Iraq, some of which, they said, may amount to genocide. The brutal group targeted specific ethnic minorities, such as Christians, Yezidis, Shiite, and not abide Sunni Muslims. Early December, the OHCHR announced that 16 mass graves were found nearby Iraq's Sinjar, in Nineveh province, which is mainly inhabited by Yazidi and Assyrian minorities, most of the victims were women. Over and over, the organization proved its brutality, using all methods of cruelty to plague the fear in the world. Late 2014, Amnesty reported that thousands of Iraq's Yezidi girls and women who were abducted by the armed group had experienced torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence. Most of girls were only 14 when they were forced to marry frequently to men double their ages. While men and children were killed or forced to convert to Islam, which was considered as ethnic cleansing to the Iraqi minority. According to Insider.pro, ISIS has committed 10 crimes against humanity in their attacks on the cities they dominate, and other western and Arab cities, including killing children, teaching kids how to kill, abducting women and selling them in slaves markets, burning people alive, trading human organs, killing homosexuals, committing sectarian massacres, tearing down historical cities and monuments, and using chemical weapons. The ISIS crimes always target children and women. One time the militants of ISIS killed 13 children for watching a soccer game in Mosul City in Iraq, besides forcing kids to shoot innocents, may be members of their families. By November 2015, the terrorist group had reportedly killed 3,591 people in Syria only since June 2014, 1,945 of them were civilians, including 77 kids and 103 woman. They also killed 223 Kurds and 975 soldiers of regime forces in governorates of Damascus, Deir el-Zor, Raqqa, Hasaka, Aleppo, Homs and Hama. Recently, Al-Azhar Observatory for Foreign Languages issued a report about ISIS aggression across the world, monitoring all its attacks, methods of violence and its victims as well as the days they usually conduct their attacks. Al-Azhar report mentioned that ISIS conducted 83 terrorist attacks in 20 countries since it was established in June 2014, noting that the group stopped taking hostages and increased the suicidal attacks. It also pointed out that 10 terrorist organizations around the world have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, and targeted 18 mosques in one year. The methods of killings by ISIS militants varied from bombing to executing hostages, suicidal attacks, shootings and other methods, according to Al-Azhar's report. The ISIS's operations were usually conducted in public places, especially on Friday 22 to assure that a large number of civilians will be hurt. The 2015 Global Terrorism Index, issued by Vision of Humanity, affirmed that ISIS has conducted 1,071 attacks since 2014, and Iraq was the most country affected by its terrorism. While Sky News Arabia confirmed the death of 6,000 people by ISIS terrorist attacks in 2015, and more 20,000 were killed in ISIS war. Egypt has suffered from the groups' attacks as well, in which tens soldiers and officers were killed in North Sinai and other governorates. The group recently targeted judges in Arish City and announced its responsibility for the downing of the Russian aircraft which was flying on the Sinai Peninsula late October. ISIS has an arm in Egypt, previously known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which pledged allegiance to the terrorist organization in 2014 and called itself "Wilayat Sinai". Many countries around the world joined the war against ISIS, and recently Saudi Arabia formed an Islamic alliance to counter the terrorism of ISIS. The air raids of the international alliance have weakened the strength of the group, as it targeted leaders, weapons stores, oil fields, and intelligence headquarters, as well as wide deaths among the militants up to 30,000 militants. Early December, reports of Western intelligence revealed that 27,000 foreign militants from 86 countries have joined the conflict in Syria and Iraq, most of them joined ISIS, pointing out to the failure of their security apparatuses in counter-terrorism, and warning of the danger of those radical militants when they return home. In December 2015, Sky News Arabia reported that most of foreign militants within ISIS came from Arab Maghreb and Middle East countries, West Europe, and former Soviet Union. With the rise of all the international efforts to eliminate the power of the Islamic State, the extremist group increases its brutality and excessive force against its enemies, considering itself in a war against what they called "Crusader Forces," luring more young people to join them. The real danger of ISIS is represented in its power of convincing and recruiting youth. The Daily Mail reported earlier this month that ISIS fresh recruits are usually close persons to the group's recruiters, as most of them are even relatives and family members. This makes the war against the group more difficult and not expected to end soon, since they always receive more radical irrational youth from all over the world. This case required an urgent solution to stop the flow of extremists to the lands of the bloody group.
