I think it's probably fair to say the regime in SA and ISIS have different ideas of what the region should look like in the long term. I doubt either side unde

I think it's probably fair to say the regime in SA and ISIS have different ideas of what the region should look like in the long term. I doubt either side understood a temporary alignment of interests to be anything more than that. Perhaps not entirely unlike what you saw in the eighties with the U.S. and the Mujahideen. There's probably even more appropriate examples from the same conflict with Russia, Turkey, U.S. et al supporting various factions.