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                    [Title] => Tensions
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The deep slide in oil prices kept importing countries happy the last few months.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-04 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1432820 [Title] => Little progress in key plank of Obama anti-IS strategy [Summary] =>

U.S. military and intelligence officials are voicing increasing pessimism about a key tenet of the Obama administration's strategy to dislodge the Islamic State group and stabilize Iraq.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-12 13:48:21 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440298 [AuthorName] => Ken Dilanian and Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150312/us-iraq.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1425077 [Title] => Uneasy alliance of Kurds, Shiites formed in northern Iraq [Summary] =>

Shiite militiamen shuttle back and forth to the nearby front lines from a sprawling military base near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk. They hoist billboards of their commander, bellow Shiite prayers from mosque loudspeakers and chant the name of their spiritual leader.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-18 04:31:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1788543 [AuthorName] => Vivian Salama [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1412469 [Title] => Iran eclipses US as Iraq's ally in fight against militants [Summary] =>

In the eyes of most Iraqis, their country's best ally in the war against the Islamic State group is not the United States and the coalition air campaign against the militants. It's Iran, which is credited with stopping the extremists' march on Baghdad.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-13 02:18:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347276 [AuthorName] => Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1397170 [Title] => Yemen's Shiite, Sunni rivals hold rare meeting [Summary] =>

Yemen's main Sunni Islamist party says its top leaders have met with the powerful Shiite rebels who have been battling it for months and control the capital, in a rare meeting that might help ease the country's political deadlock.

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The vengeance that Iraq's Shiite militias mete out as they fight the Islamic State group can be just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-12 02:44:58 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1747633 [AuthorName] => Sinan Salaheddin and Sameer N. Yacoub [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1380842 [Title] => Saudi sentences iconic Shiite cleric to death [Summary] =>

A well-known Shiite cleric was sentenced to death yesterday by a court in Saudi Arabia, sparking fears of renewed unrest from his supporters in the kingdom and neighboring Bahrain.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-16 03:33:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1155328 [AuthorName] => Aya Batrawy [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1339259 [Title] => Kerry issues warning after Syria bombs Iraq [Summary] =>

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Mideast nations on yesterday against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten sectarian divisions, after Syria launched airstrikes across the border and Iran flew surveillance drones over the neighboring country.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-26 07:18:43 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347265 [AuthorName] => Hamza Hendawi and Lara Jakes [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1337775 [Title] => Iraq militia parades as insurgents seize crossing [Summary] =>

Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities on yesterday as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in the western Anbar province.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-22 05:06:57 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1347276 [AuthorName] => Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1335800 [Title] => Iran's general in Iraq, militants seize key city [Summary] =>

In a sign of Iran's deepening involvement in the Iraqi crisis, the commander of Tehran's elite Quds Force is helping Iraq's military and Shiite militias gear up to fight the Sunni insurgents who have advanced across the country, officials said yesterday.

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