CIAO DATE: 09/2014
July 2014
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Shi'ite Muslims attend Friday prayers at the Imam Hussein shrine in the holy city of Kerbala July 18, 2014. Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric has criticized the government and international agencies for failing to do enough to help hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting between government forces and Sunni Islamist insurgents.
Resource link: The Shi'ites of the Middle East: An Iranian fifth column? [PDF] - 897K