APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from August 2007

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from August 2007

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 20 - Iraq & Again Tackling Iran.
August 20, 2007... Adnan al-Dulaimi, who leads the largest Sunni bloc with 44 seats in the 275-seat parliament, the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), has warned that Baghdad was in danger of falling into the hands of the "Persians" and "Safawis" - referring to Iran....

IRAQ - Moving On IRGC.(Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps )
August 20, 2007... The Bush administration on Aug. 15 indicated it placing Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on its list of terrorist organisations, with major implications on its activities within Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and other countries. The...

IRAQ - Neo-Salafis Seek Sinjar Haven Near Syrian Border.(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Driven by US-led forces out of the predominantly Sunni Anbar in the west and the mixed Diyala in the north-east, Neo-Salafi groups led by al-Qaeda's Internet-based Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) are seeking a safe haven near the Syrian border. The...

IRAQ - Yazidis & Iraqi Intolerance.
August 20, 2007... This atrocity casts light on a more diffuse phenomenon in Iraq which the US has failed to comprehend and which cosmopolitan Iraqis have long ignored - a ruthless intolerance of the other. Yazidis hold themselves apart from their Muslim or...

IRAQ - Position Of Sunni Arabs.
August 20, 2007... The post-invasion war in Iraq began as a Sunni-led resistance to US occupation. With the transfer of sovereignty to an elected and Shi'ite-led government in 2005, the conflict began mutating into a civil war. Today the warring parties are more...

Saudi-Syrian Verbal War.
August 20, 2007... Saudi Arabia on Aug. 16 said recent comments by Syrian Vice-President Farouq al-Shara' contained several "lies and fallacies" when he criticised the kingdom for not playing a leading role in Arab solidarity. The state's Saudi Press Agency (SPA)...

IRAQ - Majority Bloc Formed.
August 20, 2007... Two Shi'ite and two Kurdish parties on Aug. 16 formed an alliance in a bid to help Maliki's government emerge from its crisis. The FT on Aug. 17 quoted Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying the move was to create a core group of parties to...