&#39;They are trying to ignite a civil war&#39;
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Iraqi Shia leaders appealed to their supporters to show restraint yesterday after two deadly blasts targeted their religious centres in an apparent attempt to trigger civil war.
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The effort is changing into a terror war of its own.
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Those seen cooperating with American forces trying to rebuild the city are threatened - and sometimes killed.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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The President is trying to fend off a Republican rebellion over the war. But broad-brush propaganda may not work this time
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A group of Civil War re-enactors that has used a historic cannon for 30 years is fighting to keep the state, which owns the cannon, from taking it back.
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The violence started in response to a flawed election, but it reveals a rift that may be beyond politicians' control
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Persuading the Sunnis to act as a loyal minority in an Iraqi democracy may be the most improbable goal of the retaking of Falluja by storm.
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Friday marks the deadline for radical groups, thought to be planning a coup, to turn themselves in.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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Shiites continued to fight for the authority to create autonomous states, a plan that Sunni lawmakers warned could undermine the countryÂs government.
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Questions were being raised about how the fire-fight has been coordinated and how resources have been deployed.
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The country&#39;s peace envoy says that negotiations will resume next month to end the north-south civil war. By Mike Pflanz | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor.
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The two candidates claiming to be president-elect agreed to negotiations, the first sign of an easing of tensions that have risked leading the nation towards civil war.
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Political rivalries, ethnic strife and poverty have fueled the clashes, but that has not stopped combatants from invoking religion and challenging the devotion of their rivals.
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Once, drug gangs mostly fought each other, now they're joining forces to wage open warfare on the government
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The two political leaders, in a formal statement to be released Monday, are accused of inciting nationalist strife, war, propaganda of fascism, and making statements discrediting the democratic process in the ...