Complex web of intra-Islamic enmity snares Middle East

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Complex web of intra-Islamic enmity snares Middle East - BBC News
How do we begin to understand the scale of what is unfolding in the Middle East?
The crisis across the region grows by the day.

  • Syria is into the fifth year of a war of unrivalled ferocity
  • Iraq, hardly stable in any conventional sense, is battling the so-called Islamic State (IS), which is squatting in key areas
  • Libya is overrun by militias, with no meaningful civil society
  • Egypt, ruled again by the generals, is facing a rising Islamist insurgency that the military is trying to quell through growing force
The Arab coalition is a feat in itself, given the dismal record of Arab nations in the past when it comes to co-operating with each other.
It includes:

  • Saudi Arabia
  • Bahrain
  • Qatar
  • Kuwait
  • the UAE
  • Jordan
  • Sudan
  • Morocco
  • Egypt