Partition of Iraq

Some Form of Formal Partititoning Is Still the Answer for Iraq - HuffPost

In my book Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq, written some years ago but never more relevant now, I said that if Iraq was ...

Ethno-religious partition in Iraq and Syria - Semantic Scholar

From left to right, top to bottom: Sunni tribal leaders in Iraq (AFP, 2015), President Rohani (Iran), Putin (Russia) and Erdogan (Turkey) at Syria peace ...

Think the Unthinkable: Partition Iraq - IslamiCity

The Sunni guerrillas are fighting less to bring back Saddam Hussein than repel a foreign invader and prevent paybacks from its elected Shiite government. The ...

The Dangers of Partitioning Iraq - LobeLog

by Wayne White. The spike in discussion about partitioning Iraq into Sunni Arab, Shia and Kurdish states is hardly surprising given the ...

WI: Iraq partitioned | alternatehistory.com

Iraq is dominated by 3 ethnoreligious groups: the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds. They all live in seperate parts of the country and as such, it has been ...

Iraq - Federalism, Sectarianism, Autonomy | Britannica

Iraq - Federalism, Sectarianism, Autonomy: From 1968 to 2003 Iraq was ruled by the Baʿath (Arabic: “Renaissance”) Party. Under a provisional constitution ...

The Right Way to Divide Iraq | RealClearPolitics - RealClearWorld

The appeal of federalism could grow if Iraqi leaders in Baghdad cannot agree soon on a government of national unity, ideally one without ...

Iraq: Prospects of partition as violence takes its toll - BBC News

The BBC's Jim Muir considers the possibility of sectarian partition in Iraq amid the recent flare-up of violence and mounting tension ...

Iraq's Displaced at the Crossroads of Partition and Restitution

The recent violence in Iraq gave rise to the largest displacement crisis in the Middle East since the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. However, although those ...

Iraq's partition fantasy | openDemocracy

A feature of political discussion of Iraq in recent weeks has been another flurry of propaganda by United States politicians in favour of ...

IF IRAQ MUST BE DIVIDED, HERE'S THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT

As Iraq spirals toward chaos and its Kurdish region talks independence, the issue of partition, or federalism, has resurfaced.

The Trouble With Partition - The Atlantic

... partitioning Iraq. Only Iraqis can partition Iraq. If enough Iraqi factions could agree on partition -- or on anything else -- that would be ...

Partition may be the only solution | World news - The Guardian

As an Iraqi I go anywhere (not only in Iraq, but also in the Middle East), the first thing people ask me is: "Are you a Sunni or a Shia?".

Arabs Reluctant to `Partition' Iraq - CSMonitor.com

These countries are torn between their determination to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and concern that an Iraqi breakup could fuel ...

BOOKS-IRAQ: Partition Accomplished - Global Issues

Eager to avoid refighting the intense political battles over Iraq during the George W. Bush administration, both Democrats and Republicans ...

Iraq: Criticism Of U.S. Senate's Partition Resolution Echoes Across ...

(RFE/RL) October 4, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. Senate's passage of a nonbinding resolution calling for a formal separation of Iraq's 18 ...

Risks of armed confrontation, partition loom in Iraqi Kurdistan as ...

The widening chasm between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan raises fears of an armed showdown, ...

A trench in Iraq exacerbates Sunni fears of sectarian partition | Reuters

The local official drew a line on a map slicing through farmland and desert southwest of Baghdad whose Sunni Muslim residents have been ...

Time to Plan for Iraq Partition? - National Review

2. The ISIL strategy is to provoke Sunni–Shia civil war, and making it so that they are the main organization remaining for Sunnis to rally ...

Shiites Press for a Partition of Iraq - Global Policy Forum

They have a new constitution, a new government and a new military. But faced with incessant sectarian bloodshed, Iraqis for the first time ...