Redrawing Syrian and Iraqi borders is no easy task | The National
▻http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/redrawing-syrian-and-iraqi-borders-is-no-easy-task
Variations sur l’idée de #Sunnistan(s) par Taylor Luck
Behind closed doors, one scenario is gaining popularity: a Sunni partitioning of Iraq and Syria. Under various proposals, the southern Syrian province of Daraa, Suwayda and Quneitrah would form a separate state, while mainly Sunni Anbar in west Iraq would be combined with Mosul to become an autonomous region. Iraqi Sunni tribesmen have been lobbying Washington for months.
Meanwhile, the Free Syrian Army’s southern forces have been acting independently for more than a year – answering only to the US and Saudi-run Military Operations Centre in Amman.
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But when faced with the facts, autonomous Sunni regions in Syria and Iraq are more fantasy than feasible, even if the idea of sovereign states in southern Syria and west Iraq do have their roots in history.
Sur un thème proche, le même avec Nicholas Blanford :
Syrian war : As neighbors seek border enclaves, a de facto partition ?
▻http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/0803/Syrian-war-As-neighbors-seek-border-enclaves-a-de-facto-partition-video
Voir la déconstruction du discours sur l’Irak comme pays artificiel, voir le remarquable essai de Sarah Pursley sur Jadaliyya
▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21759/lines-drawn-on-an-empty-map_iraq%E2%80%99s-borders-and-the
Une version arabe est maintenant publiée : ▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21946/%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B7-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%8
#irak #Syrie #jordanie
