Iraq divisions undermine battle against IS - BBC News - 0 views
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More than in any other country, Iraq's future is intimately bound up with the fate of self-styled Islamic State (IS).
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Territory that was lost in a day or two is taking many months to claw painfully back.
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But even if initially successful, such an ambitious project, indeed, any further moves to oust IS, could go badly wrong if the foundations are not sound
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Saudi Arabia's Shia and Riyadh's other war - 'The language of hatred is getting worse' - 0 views
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This article talks about the Saudi part of Arab Spring when the Shia took to the streets in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, to protest decades of discrimination and religious and political repression, beginning an uprising that was met with a violent crackdown, a wave of arrests and cases of police firing on unarmed protesters.
Yemen bombed: 'Crisis could deepen to all-out Sunni-Shia religious war, real aim is to ... - 0 views
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Yemen bombed: 'Crisis could deepen to all-out Sunni-Shia religious war, real aim is to stop Iran'
Saudi Arabia's Shia press for rights - 0 views
Life, Death, and War in Post-2003 Iraq | Warscapes - 0 views
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Antoon is also keen to complicate conventional notions of life in Baghdad after 2003. Many foreign narratives of post-war Iraq emphasize ethnic and sectarian divisions as essential groups of categorization by the Iraqi people. By following Jawad’s story, which begins long before the invasion, we can see that Antoon addresses sectarianism, but in ways that counter common sectarian narratives. One example is that of Jawad’s work. In a jarring scene, two Sunni men come into Jawad’s business. Jawad is a Shia and generally washes other Shia men. Death rituals differ slightly between sects. The two men present Jawad with a burned corpse of a Shia man who had been killed in a car bomb. For days his body sat outside the wreckage, so the men decided to collect the corpse for washing. “God bless you. There are still good people in this world,” is all that Jawad replies. This emotional sense of togetherness, despite the admission that the car bomb was an act of sectarian violence, shows that in chaotic times such lines are not as clear as they are made out to be.
Iraq: on the frontline with the Shia fighters taking the war to Isis | World news | The... - 0 views
Sunnis and Shias: Islam's ancient schism - 0 views
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What are the differences between Sunnis and Shias?Muslims are split into two main branches, the Sunnis and Shias. The split originates in a dispute soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad over who should lead the Muslim community. The great majority of Muslims are Sunnis - estimates suggest the figure is somewhere between 85% and 90%.
Saudi Arabia and Yemen: The test for a new monarch | The Economist - 0 views
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The test for a new monarc
Syria: The story of the conflict - BBC News - 0 views
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It has acquired sectarian overtones, pitching the country's Sunni majority against the president's Shia Alawite sect,
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The rise of the jihadist groups, including Islamic State, has added a further dimension.
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both sides of the conflict have committed war crimes - including murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearances.
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This article delves into the issues of war crimes, chemical weapons, humanitarian issues, and the rise if islamist groups interventions
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This website offers eight steps to understanding the Syrian conflict. The sections include: uprising turns violent, descent into civil war, war crimes, chemical weapons, humanitarian crisis, Syrian refugees in the region, rebels and the rise of the jihadists, peace efforts, & proxy war
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More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State.
Oil and Terror: ISIS and Middle East Economies - 0 views
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ISIS's economic cost is significant not just for Iraq but also other Middle Eastern countries.
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Iraq has the fifth largest oil reserves in the world and third highest in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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Part of ISIS's rise in Iraq can be attributed to sectarian politics.
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