The Sunni-Shia Divide

“The concentration of economic and foreign policy power on Mohammed bin Salman contains the latent danger that, in an attempt to establish himself in the royal succession while his father is still alive, he could overreach with expensive measures or reforms that would unsettle other members of the royal family and the population,"
-The Independent, BND


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how-saudi-arabia-helped-isis-take-over-the-north-of-the-country-9602312.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11989196/Prince-Mohammed-bin-Salman-the-son-also-rises.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-is-playing-an-increasingly-destabilising-role-in-the-middle-east-german-intelligence-a6760911.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/12/29/Top-ISIS-commanders-killed-in-Ramadi-who-were-they-.html

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/01/iraq-recaptured-ramadi-matters-160103061219164.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/03/how-isis-spread-its-deadly-ideology-a-timeline


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/world/middleeast/iran-saudi-arabia-execution-sheikh-nimr.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/how-saudi-arabias-own-media-reported-on-the-execution-of-47-people-a6794516.html

Maps
http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/ihs-maps-islamic-states-territorial-losses-over-2015/news-story/94a659d0b38a54857d8b11dc3922ac1e

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ihs jan/on-the-front-lines-of-the-war-against-the-islamic-state-a-tangled-web/2015/12/30/d944925a-9244-11e5-befa-99ceebcbb272_story.html

IRGC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Ali_Jafari

GID:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mukhabarat_Al_A%27amah