Prophet Muhammad stated in one of his hadiths is "my Ummah (community) will be fragmented into seventy-three sects‚ and all of them will be in the Hellfire except one‚" and both Sunni and Shia claim to be the rightful leaders." The current conflict in Iraq is fuelled by sectarian rivalries too‚ which embattled President Bashar al-Assad and his family members of the Shia Alawite-sect‚ while many of the insurgent groups in his country – including the Islamic State terror group – are Sunni adherents. And
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Nima Golchin Ms.Sconnyer Liturature 18 October‚ 2012 The Al Anfal campaign The operation was called “Anfal Campaign;” Anfal means “Spoils of war” in Arabic. This was a genocidal campaign that was followed by a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population and their means of livelihood – villages‚ agriculture‚ infrastructures‚ roads‚ etc. The operation was carried from early 1986 until late 1989 and it took the lives of more than 2‚150‚000 mostly women‚ children‚ and elders as most
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loosely defined. One term sometimes applied to part of this area is “Fertile Crescent‚” which was coined by James Henry Breasted in 1914 to refer to the arc of fertile agricultural zones that formed the basis for early civilizations‚ in what is now Iraq‚ Syria‚ Lebanon‚ and Israel. Scholars studying the ancient past usually use the term “Near East” for this area. Map of the Middle East Mountains and deserts divide the Middle East into six zones that are both geographically distinct and have influenced
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People always talk about exotic foods. There are many options to choose. I think that two common exotic foods people choose in Iraq are Assyrian food and Turkish food. Both types of foods are delicious. But Assyrian food and Turkish food are totally different. In this essay I will contrast the taste of Assyrian food and Turkish food. Firstly‚ I’m going to discuss Assyrian food. Chili and flavor are important in Assyrian food. Some of Assyrian foods are spicy and sour. It is usually strongly flavored
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Superior Work From A Superior Empire The Safavids were an extraordinary empire because of their beautiful tile work. The Safavid Empire lasted from the early 1500’s to 1722 and took up most of present day Iran and Iraq. They went through years of fighting to gain and lose territory against the Ottomans and Moguls. Under their ruler Shah Abbas‚ they reached their glory. They regained lost territory‚ strengthened their army using the latest weapons‚ and trained administrators to run the kingdom
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The devastation of the Black Death following hard on the heels of the Mongol destruction of Islam’s most important city and capital of the Abbasid Empire‚ Baghdad‚ eliminated Islam’s old political order. Nonetheless‚ these two catastrophes prepared the way for new Islamic states to emerge. Of these‚ the Ottoman‚ the Safavid‚ and the Mughal dynasties ultimately grew powerful enough to become empires themselves. The most powerful‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ occupied the pivotal area between
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References: Bryant‚ C.‚ & Kasinof‚ L. (2010‚ October 29). Suspicious UPS‚ FedEx packages raise new concerns about Al Qaeda in Yemen. Christian Science Monitor. p. N.PAG. Retrieved from EBSCOhost CPJ. (2008‚ April 15). Iraq: Journalists Abducted 2003-09. Retrieved March 15‚ 2011‚ from Committee to Protect Journalists: Defending Journalists Worldwide: http://cpj.org/reports/2008/04/abducted.php. Gerstein‚ Josh (2010). Clinton named Al Qaeda Yemen as terror group. Politico
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southwestern China spread through China then along trade routes Central Asia to Black Sea‚ then by ship to Mediterranean Sea and Italian city-states secondary routes from China to Red Sea and from Indian Ocean to Persian gulf into Fertile Crescent and Iraq Dying men arrived in 1347 called the Pestilence or Great Mortality engulfed western end it struck Afro-Eurasian popoulations because it had no immunities to the disease Rodents carreid the plague bacilli fleas transmitted the bacilli from rodent
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represent the largest ethnic group world-wide which does not have a home country. Overview This people lives in an area that is today known as Kurdistan‚ and it represents a region of 200‚000 miles from S-E Turkey‚ N-E Syria‚ West Iran and North Iraq. The Kurds are known to be descendents of the Medes. Since the largest population of the Kurds live in Turkey (almost 40 percent)‚ they are seen as threat to the government of this country. Turkey ’s government has tried to assimilate the Kurd population
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Title: Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence & Its Links to The Middle East. Author: Khaled Ahmed ISBN: 978-0-19-90-6593-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 369 Price: PKR.550 By: Syed Haider Abbas The author of this book is Khaled Ahmed. Khaled Ahmed was in the Pakistan Foreign Service from 1969 to 1978. He left it to become a journalist of distinction in The Pakistan Times. He is a former consulting editor of Daily Times; resident editor of The Frontier Post; joint editor
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