Iraq and Gulf Analysis
Les clés du Moyen-Orient
Syria Comment
Egyptoblogue
Dan O'Huiginn
Culture et politique arabes – De temps à autre, un peu de la CULTURE ARABE ACTUELLE pour comprendre ce qu'elle nous dit sur l'ACTUALITE POLITIQUE ARABE
Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna
History[edit] The group was founded in September 2003 as an umbrella organization for guerrillas, with former members of Ansar al-Islam who had fled to Iran after a 2003 joint operation by Iraqi and US forces.[2] Their goal was to expel U.S. occupation forces from Iraq. Following the twin Sunni and Shiite uprisings of the spring and summer of 2004, and the subsequent decrease in U.S patrols and the creation of "no-go" areas in the Sunni Triangle, Ansar al-Sunna was believed to be part of a loose coalition of insurgent groups (also including guerrillas from al-Tawhid wal Jihad) controlling the Sunni cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, Samarra, and Baquba (U.S. offensives later largely wrested control from Baquba, Fallujah, and Samarra, although underground guerrilla resistance forces still had a strong presence in those cities). The United States and Iraqi Interim governments linked Ansar al-Sunna with Abu Musab al-Zarqawis, Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (al-Qaeda in Iraq). Suicide bombings[edit]
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب
Kurds in Iraq: The Struggle Between Baghdad and Erbil (liam anderson)
forcing them to choose sides in a highly polarized and politicized environment. This polarization has not, for the most part, been driven by inherent communal antipathywithin these regions, although in some places such animosity is readily apparent, but by the pressures that have been brought to bear from developments in the secondconflict environment — among the political elites of the Iraqi and Kurdistan regionalgovernments. This dynamic was made dangerously apparent in August 2008, whenISF units were ordered into the Kurdish-administered town of Khanaqin. The question of which government should administer the disputed territories isfraught with complexity. peshmerga interritories deemed to be outside the current limits of the KRG, and the presence of ISFin territories deemed to be historically part of Kurdistan, provide the spark that couldignite military conflict. and ISF were mobilized in the town of Khanaqin some 150 kilometersnortheast of Baghdad. .
Un si Proche Orient: Blog de Jean-Pierre Filiu
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