![]() In the 16 years since, it has been shaped by - and has at moments helped to shape - the conflicts, physical and ideological, of the Middle East. The group began, in a very different form, in 1999. To understand the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - why it exists, what it wants, and why it commits terrible violence of which the Paris attacks are only the latest - you need to understand the tangled story of how it came to be.
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