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.
It includes:
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
It includes:
- Saudi Arabia
- Bahrain
- Qatar
- Kuwait
- the UAE
- Jordan
- Sudan
- Morocco
- Egypt