No. They did not. ISIS wasn't anywhere near the bulk of the population of Syria.
Seriously, compare tehese two maps:
Look at where the people are.
And here are where Russia struck in September/October 2015, when refugees flooded to Europe:
And later that month
And a few months late rin early 2016
It's a goddamn lie to say the refugees came from the part of Syria where people don't live in large numbers, while simultaneously Russia and Assad were targeting the most densely populated parts of Syria.
Yes, of course ISIS created some refugees. But most of those from ISIS controlled regions went to Iraq.
Those being attacked by the government in the South of Syria fled to Lebandon and Jordan. Those in the norht being attacked by Russia/Assad flet to Turkey and Greece.
That map by the way is from the European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations. This is a European Union created map.
https://reliefweb.int/organization/echo
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefwe...ees-IDPs_0.pdf
(big version of them map)
This should not be surprising because what the "they all are from ISIS" lie would mean is that the people escaping danger would cross the entirety of their country - mostly vast desert - into more danger (Russia/Assad attacks), before leaving,r ather than going across the border to the refugee camps in Iraq.
Which is why it didn't happen. It's ridiculous. You can even see the flow of this on the Internal Displaced Persons movement mini-map in the corner. Look how many lines (and their thickness) are going to Alleppo and Idleb in the north-west from places places the Syrian government targeted (and between places in the north west too, like the Idleb-Alleppo flow). Now compare compared to Raqqa and Deir-ez-Zor, which were under ISIS control. The flow of people in the Syrian and Russian government targeted areas far far more than the ISIS areas. And that's because that is where the people lived.
It's a goddamn lie the US had anything to do with Europe's refugee problem. And this data from the EU itself reflects that. Not that it'll change a single opinion, but it speaks for itself and is the truth.
You want someone to blame for Europe's refugee problem? Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin. Because they were bombing - and displacing - people where more people lived, not where they didn't