Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Index / Organizations Transcripts Bronwen Solyom ...to find out when she was working for ISIS . Oh, that's Barack was still with he... ...in Jakarta, like you said for IS-- ISIS . That's an interesting, um, acrony... Scott Gration ...not only asymmetric stress—threats like ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] an... Loretta Lynch ...the al-Qaeda splinter that is known as ISIS , the Islamic State, and the fact tha... ...splinter that is known as ISIS, the Islamic State , and the fact that they, as part o... ...the US with the express goal of joining ISIS in providing what's called “materia... ...very successful campaign on the part of ISIS . One of the most charismatic leader... ...these are out there—a video of an ISIS soldier beheading someone, the... ...the country and saying: “I want to join ISIS .” But if they had been involved i... ...had been involved in fundraising for ISIS , or buying arms for ISIS, or allowin... ...for ISIS, or buying arms for ISIS , or allowing their identity and credi... ...cards to be used to buy weapons for ISIS , that's providing material support t... ...We knew that the messaging from ISIS was, “Strike where you are.” We kne... ...radicalized into killing in the name of ISIS or any other radical Islamic group, bu... Show more... Farhana Khera ...people who were getting inspired by ISIS , that wasn't happening at mosques... Neil Eggleston ...about it, and we'll probably get to ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] an... ...these principles because of the rise of ISIS , so I had to learn the... ...in figuring how to deal with the Islamic State , and under what authority. What di... ...in the summer, maybe August of '14. ISIS are in their pickup trucks, rocketin... ...was no AUMF that had been applied to ISIS . Let me phrase it that way. Really... ...decision that we had to make was, was ISIS covered by the '01 or '02 AUMFs o... ...because what we had to decide was, was ISIS an offshoot of al-Qaeda? The phras... ...by the summer of 2014, al-Qaeda and ISIS had had a bitter split. There was sor... ...split, or is it a fake split to protect ISIS ? All that kind of stuff. That was th... ...authority to use lethal force against ISIS , and then separately whether the Wa... ...international issue, because the same ISIS are also racing towards Baghdad. S... ...to have our planes shoot down these ISIS fighters. So there were n... ...ready to make the decision on whether ISIS was covered by the '01 or the '02 AUM... ...bombings—I should say strikes—against ISIS were intermittent, such that the sixt... ...very narrowly not as a strike against ISIS , but as a strike against thi... ...as if we'd started hostilities against ISIS , because the sixty-day clock woul... ...'01 and '02 AUMFs in fact covered the ISIS . And that's been the basis on whic... ...going to stick with our position that ISIS is covered by the '01 and '02 AUMFs.... ...and they had reached a consensus that ISIS was covered by the '01 and '02 AUMFs... Show more... Alan Bersin ...people from the West going over to join ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria], an... ...by al-Qaeda and subsequently by ISIS of people already within the Unite... ...events, particularly caused by the ISIS development in the second term of th... ...that needed to happen with the rise of ISIS , because terrorism was lookin... Dennis Ross ...place—” again, Muslim Brotherhood; not ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria], no... ...We are so reluctant to do anything that ISIS emerges. You can see everything. ... ...destabilize the region itself, and ISIS will rise up out of the vacuum. If h... ...The great irony is, in the end when ISIS rises up, we find a local partner, th... ...reach was completely different in 2013. ISIS existed in 2013. It didn't exist i... Derek Chollet ...Russia was doing and responding to the ISIL [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant... ...was doing and responding to the ISIL [ Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ] crisis that was also exploding in th... ...removal process had been complete, the ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria... ...of my time at the Pentagon. After the ISIL bombing campaign started, I felt lik... ...up the confluence with the rise of ISIL in 2013, 2014. And it's something ... ...civil war. I'm wondering if the rise of ISIL kind of became a complicating factor i... ...was a little bit of both. Clearly the ISIL —it wasn't that Assad and ISIL wer... ...the ISIL—it wasn't that Assad and ISIL were friends either. And we wer... ...us, because we're trying to take out ISIL , which is your enemy too,” and the... ...war, you're going to have groups like ISIL get fueled. Even though they were—it'... ...Even though they were—it's kind of like ISIS -K [Islamic State of Iraq an... ...on only hitting targets that were ISIL targets. Is it worth talking a bi... ...worth talking a bit about the counter- ISIL campaign and what you saw in it comin... ...at the Pentagon was when the counter- ISIL coalition was getting stood up. We ha... ...of what would become the counter- ISIL coalition on the margins of the NAT... ...about our coordinated campaign against ISIL . Then, that over time grew, and i... ...still exists today. There is a counter- ISIL coalition with various subgroups an... 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