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Spotlight UNITED STATES IRAQ Issue dated 30/07/2014

Sunni tribes' secret diplomacy

The tribes of Anbar, the backbone of the Sunni insurrection threatening Nouri al-Maliki's government, are already thinking of the future. Despite their alliance with the jihadist organisation Islamic State, the former Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or [...] (591 words)

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