Unlike Al-Qaeda whose main goal is global terrorism, ISIS seeks to eliminate the geographic borders and nations that were created in the Middle East by the Western powers after World War I. In place...

Unlike Al-Qaeda whose main goal is global terrorism, ISIS seeks to eliminate the geographic borders and nations that were created in the Middle East by the Western powers after World War I. In place of these nation-states, ISIS wants to re-establish a caliphate (an ancient Muslim ideal of a pure Islamic state governed by law), and restore the original borders of the Ottoman Empire (Cronin, 2015).