&gt; Also, please note that Al-Qaeda in Iraq was the progenitor of ISIS<p>It wasn&#x27;t so much a &quot;progenitor of ISIS&quot; as the name taken by the group that later called itself &quot;the Islamic State in Iraq&quot; (and later still, &quot;the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria&quot;, and most recently simply &quot;the Islamic State&quot;) during the period in which that group (which had been around quite some time previously) adopted the al-Qaeda brand.