Tag Archives: Shiite

Squandering Iraq: Why Couldn’t America Succeed?

March 20, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

With all American troops left Iraq since December 2011, America has squandered an extraordinary military victory that was won in the spring of 2003 when U.S. forces overthrew the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Ten years after the … read more »

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Iran Using Religion To Achieve Political Ends

October 7, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By: Arab News By Ali Bluwi Ali Qadi Askar, the representative of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, announced that his country had decided to revive a cultural program within the context of “Innocence from pagans” during the pilgrimage season of this … read more »

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Iraq’s Coming Civil War

April 25, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

As the Obama Administration tries to hammer together an American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the body count from his disastrous retreat from Iraq is swiftly rising. Last week alone there were fourteen car bombings orchestrated by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, whose goal … read more »

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How to Help Iraq

April 16, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

by Harold Rhode By abandoning Iraq, the US administration sadly has given the Iraqi Shiites no alternative other than to look to Iran for protection. But if that new Iranian government were to be allied to the West, what difference … read more »

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Wave of Attacks Hasten Fracture of Iraq

March 21, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

A series of coordinated bomb attacks that hit more than a dozen Iraqi cities left more than 50 dead and 200 injured on Tuesday. The nature of the attacks pointed to al-Qaeda (AQ) as the perpetrator of the deadly bombings, … read more »

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War in the Gulf

January 20, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

If a war begins in the neighborhood of the Persian Gulf, it will likely have less to do with a slugging match between Israel and Iran, than a simmering Sunni-Shiite war that is about to flare up into regional violence … read more »

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Iraq in Crisis

January 6, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Yesterday, Iraq was hit with another wave of bombings as sectarian strife continues to dramatically increase following the withdrawal of U.S. forces. At least 70 Shiites were killed, presumably by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Across the Middle East, tension and bloodshed … read more »

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