The dramatic successes of the Salafi-Jihadist terrorist movement, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its creation, the Islamic State (IS) in the far western part of Asia known as the Middle East (or Southwest Asia) stunned the world in mid-2014. These successes were facilitated by the presence of motivated and fanatical foreign fighters from Europe and from Asia and by the tactical alliance with former Iraqi insurgents and former members of the Ba’thist regime of Saddam Hussein.