I don't see anything as to which country the group specifically emerged in, but it looks like they've been around longer than I thought they had. "ISIL origina

I don't see anything as to which country the group specifically emerged in, but it looks like they've been around longer than I thought they had. "ISIL originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and participated in the Iraqi insurgency following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces at the behest of the United States. In June 2014, the group proclaimed itself a worldwide caliphate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_...