Iraqi Kurdistan

AQI was created in October 2004, when a terrorist group named Bayat al Imam, based in Iraq, declared its loyalty to al Qaeda, the group that carried out the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. (Gerges 339 – 342). Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi Muslim, gained control AQI in 2010, after years of decline and unpopularity due to their brutal tactics. In 2011, after the US withdrew its troops from Iraq, AQI was under less military pressure, and expanded its terrorist operations in Iraq. In April…

Understanding Syria Background President: Bashar al-Assad: Elected. Assad overtook his father as president, but his father had seized power in a coup. Capital: Damascus To understand Syria is to recognise a highly divided country. Ethnic groups and their religious practices are diverse. Islam is primarily divided into two denominations within Syria, Shia, and Sunni. Sunni Muslims make up the majority of the population. Much of the government practice a branch of Shia Islam and are called…

In 27 African countries, Yamen, Iraqi Kurdistan, and found elsewhere in Asia, the Middle East it is accepted for females to get genital mutilation. “Female genital mutilation is all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the femal genital organs for non medical reasons” according to World Health Organization. This is a procedure done during at young age between 0 and 14. The procedure hurts women in many ways. First of all, it is…