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NAJAF, IRAQ - DECEMBER 17: Iraqi soldiers try to control supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari as they welcome him on December 17, 2005 in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq. Al-Jaafari arrived in Najaf on December 17 and visited Ayatollah al-Sistani and the firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. (Photo by Saad Serhan /Getty Images)

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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as Guide and Critic, 2014–23

Iranian Commanders holding signage

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The Sunnis of Iraq’s “Shia” Paramilitary Powerhouse

Iraq representatives

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Tribal Justice in a Fragile Iraq

Syrian Military in the desert

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A Return to American Restraint Begins in Syria

A horizon of a city shot through a cave

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Social Engineering in Samarra

(L-R) Shiite Deputy Speaker of Iraqi's Parliament Hussein al-Shehrestani, Jawad al-Maleki, senior official from Dawa party, and Shiite cleric Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), are seen during a press conference at the SCIRI's offices in Baghdad, Iraq.

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The Waning Relevance of the Sunni-Shia Divide