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Saudi Arabia and Qatar ratchet up sectarian and ethnic tensions in Iraq

Zayd Alisa 27 February 2013

Iraq, a decade after the US-led invasion and one year after the end of the US occupation, is grappling not merely with an escalating sectarian crisis between the Shia-led government and an increasingly disaffected Sunni minority, but with an intensifying ethnic crisis fomenting in an increasingly defiant and heavily armed Kurdish Region.

US shores up waning influence in Iraq by bolstering Kurdish superiority

Zayd Alisa 15 January 2013

Iraq, on the first anniversary of US withdrawal, is struggling to cope, not merely with a raging sectarian crisis between the Shia-led Central Government (CG) and an increasingly resentful Sunni-minority, but more alarmingly an ethnic crisis with a heavily armed and increasingly defiant Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).

USA holds its breath as Saudi Arabia’s uprising surmounts the regime’s impregnable shield

Zayd Alisa 17 September 2012

In Saudi eyes any concession, no matter how insignificant, let alone a triumph by the Bahraini uprising, would definitely inspire its own Shia to rebel against the regime.

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