Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the tendences of the fight against it

Abstract

The Iraqi and Syrian crisis will dominate the international and European agenda for several years. The aims of great powers and coalition partners are different; the existing measures of the international institutions handling the conflict are not effective at all while religiously motivated extremist movements have been spreading in the world. The essay analyses the causes and circumstances of the rising of ISIL, the role of the main participants in the handling of the crisis, and the fight against the ISIL.