Crisis in Iraq
The bitter fruit of
war and occupation
Iraq stands on the brink of another civil war and its possible disintegration as a unified nation state. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has seized several Iraqi cities and begun building what it claims to be a Sunni caliphate. The country’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has taken over Kirkuk and stands poised to assert its right as an oppressed nation to declare independence. The Shia prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has been reduced to rule over only the central and southern sections of the country.