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1960s–1970s. During the era of the anti-colonial struggle in North Africa and the Middle East, and coinciding with the creation of Israel in 1948, a series of Marxist-Leninist and anti-imperialist movements swept throughout the Arab and Islamic world. These movements were nationalist and revolutionary, but not Islamic.
Iraqi Kurdish uprising (1982–1988) – 50,000–198,000 killed. 1991 Uprising in As Sulaymaniyah – 700–2,000 killed. Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1994–1997) – 3,000 [82] –5,000 killed. 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq – several hundred killed (≈300) on the Kurdish front, at least 24 Peshmerga soldiers killed.
Some college presidents have said that they would express no views about what is happening in the Middle East, adhering to an approach urged by the Kalven Report at the University of Chicago over ...
Gallup and Pew polls. Polls have found Muslim-Americans to report less violent views than any other religious group in America. 89% of Muslim-Americans claimed that the killing of civilians is never justified, compared to 71% of Catholics and Protestants, 75% of Jews, and 76% of atheists and non-religious groups.
"This is a dangerous moment for the Middle East," Lammy said in a statement. "The risk of the situation spiralling out of control is rising. Any Iranian attack would have devastating consequences ...
India [ 76 ] Communist Party of the Philippines / New People's Army. European Union, [ 158 ] Japan, [ 18 ] New Zealand, [ 162 ] Philippines, [ 188 ] United States [ 16 ] Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist. Turkey [ 113 ] Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan. Russia [ 66 ] Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.
Avi Melamed is an Israeli author, educator, and independent Middle East strategic intelligence analyst. Melamed is an author of two books entitled: Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth (2016) [1] [2] and co-author of Separate and Unequal (1999).
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These abuses included physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the ...