Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map:

Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 30 - Iraq & Sadr's Decline.

Jun 02, 2008 ... The US and Iraqi governments are having difficulty in negotiating a long-term security agreement while, at the same time, the forces of PM Nuri al-Maliki have considerably weakened Jaysh al-Mahdi (JaM), the militia of young anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who is of a prominent Shi'ite ...

Rogue JaM Men Spread Terror.

Jun 02, 2008 ... Undermining Sadr's campaign against the US presence in Iraq is the behaviour of rogue JaM militias, who now are roaming Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and the south of the country, killing people they suspect to be collaborating with the US and the Maliki government. This is damaging Sadr's ...

MPs Alarmed By Secrecy Of US-Iraqi Talks.

Jun 02, 2008 ... Members of Iraq's Council of Representatives (parliament) are increasingly concerned that they are being left out of talks between Iraqi and US officials over the proposed security pact. This is to determine the future relationship between the two countries, at a time when the US Congress ...

A Cover To Hit Iran?(Brief article)

Jun 02, 2008 ... The explicitly aggressive tone of the Bush-Maliki agreement on protecting Iraq against foreign intervention has set off alarms in Washington that the Bush administration may seek to use it as a cover to attack Iran, which has been repeatedly accused by US civilian and military officials of ...