The War On Terror: Who Are We Fighting?

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The War        Related Sites    

Post WW 1 Control
Prelude The Picot Agreement1 of 1916, after the Ottoman's defeat in WW1, split much of the Easter Mediterranean between Brittan, France Russia and this eventually led to the state of Israel. Please Share      1/28/24

Eventually the Palestine Liberation Organization and the
Six Day War created some of today's issues. 
Add the War on Terror to the unintended
consequences of WW 1 peace treaties.                        

Background

Facts

History in Maps

Maps Explain Middle East  

Muslim Religion, Politics 
and Society

Islamic Fundamentalism

Militant Hamas vs.
Moderate Fatah

20th Iranian Century

20th Century Iraq

20th Century Palestine

Participants

Sunnis and Shiites at War 

Al-Qaeda
a world-wide network

Palestine of Hamas

Hezbollah in Lebanon

Taliban  of Afghanistan
 

Islamic State is an Extremely
Radical Sunnis Muslims


Muslim Brotherhood
 from Egypt is a
  Pan-Islamic Social Movement
 

The War
 11 Minute Conflect History

Timeline: The Iraq War 
Council on Foreign Relations

We Need to
Talk About Islam
from Documentary Films

Brief Sunni-Shiite Conflict History

War on Terror from Wiki
 is extensive

 

Wars That Americans
 Want to Forget 

Afghanistan and Iraq

Related Sites

A Concise History
of Christianity

US, 20th Century 
Military History

Military Decisions
by US Presidents

American Dynasty
Aristocracy, Fortune, and
Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
  by Kevin Phillips

Second Chance 
Three Presidents and the Crisis
of America Superpower
 by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Presidential Courage
Brave Leaders and
How They Changed America
1789-1989  by Michael Beschloss

Post WW 1 Control

1Britain was allocated control of
  of areas roughly comprising the coastal strip
between the sea and River Jordan, Jordan, southern Iraq,
 and a small area including the ports of Haifa and Acre,
to allow access to the Mediterranean.[6]

France was allocated control of
south-eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.[6]

 

 Russia was to get
  Istanbul, the Turkish Straits and the Ottoman Armenian vilayets.[6]

The controlling powers were left free
to decide on state boundaries within these areas

 

Readings 
Power Struggles in Middle-East Exploit 
Islam's Ancient Sectarian Rift  7/5/14
    
 Sisi vs. ISIS: Dictatorship vs. Mob Rule  
Why Egypt Might Survive the Arab Spring 3/25/15 

The Arab Spring Four Years Later 5/1 15