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Demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as they carry al-Qaida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the […]


Opinion: Sunni-Shi’ite Tensions are Nothing New

Opinion: Sunni-Shi’ite Tensions are Nothing New

by | Jun 20, 2014 | Opinion

To what can we attribute this general state of shock regarding the mounting tensions between Sunnis and Shi’ites in Syria and Iraq following the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters in the region? It is completely natural that such tensions...