In the shadow of the Arab Spring, Syrian civil war, conflicts in Egypt and Libya, one of the most serious conflicts in the Middle East evolved in Iraq leading to the establishing of a caliphate in areas stretching from the borders to Iraqi Kurdistan and beyond Al-Raqqah in Syria. The group behind the caliphate, Islamic State, is one of the most powerful and brutal groups seen in the modern Middle East now, threatening the Middle East system of states as well as Western interest inside and outside the region. How can the Arab Middle East and/or EU confront the Islamic State?
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