1. Recruits joined to fight Bashar al-Assad, but ended up largely fighting other Syrian rebels, and were disappointed by this.
2. Defectors believed ISIS was too brutal to fellow Sunni Muslims.
3. Defectors said ISIS leaders were corrupt and played favorites.
4. Many also said living conditions in ISIS territory were awful; they'd been promised a glorious caliphate but found squalor.”
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