BLACK FLAGS:
The Rise of ISIS
By Joby Warrick
Corgi. 480 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 0 552 172 882
Names such as Abu-Musad al-Zarqawi, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and al-Nusra have become familiar to anyone keeping abreast of world affairs.
They are all players within the ever more turbulent and violent landscape of the Middle East. Yet I suspect that very few of us understand the relationships between the various factions and key players of these Islamist groups, how they have come into being and what their distinctive ideologies are.
