3/31/2024 0 Comments Iraqi insurgency![]() ![]() ![]() It is important, therefore, for Western policymakers to remain engaged and informed about the issues confronting the post-ISIS Sunni landscape. Despite the rise of great power politics, regional security competition, and growing uncertainty of the American role in the Middle East, intra-Sunni dynamics within Iraq have demonstrated before to hold an oversized impact on the country’s stability, and even to regional and international security. It impinges on important questions related to Sunni identity, organization, and participation vis-à-vis the Iraqi state. This chapter focuses on the current state of turmoil of the Sunni community. Today, division, destruction, and despair mark Sunni society like never before, and the cycle of reconstruction and deconstruction of the community has led to an ever-fragmented Sunni polity. ![]() With over a year since the liberation of Iraq was concluded, the war has left behind enduring legacies and newfound grievances that are likely to cause the next conflagration. The rise of ISIS was not only the result of the government’s sectarian behavior toward the Sunni population, but also the result of a more local dynamic of settling-scores between Sunnis, both within and between tribes and across the rural-urban divide. While categorized as an abrupt “event,” the emergence of the Islamic State was much more of a longrunning evolutionary process, intertwined with Sunni grievances and fractures within society-furnishing opportunities to exploit them. ![]()
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