Militants plan to dreraw map of the middle eastWall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/articles/islamist-militants-aim-to-redraw-map-of-the-middle-east-1402620168?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories
This article has a good overview of the major dynamics of the middle east, specifically the ethnic regions:
"The conflicts unleashed in Iraq and Syria have merged to become the epicenter of a struggle between the [Middle East's] historic ethnic and religious empires: Persian-Shiite Iran, Arab-Sunni Saudi Arabia, and Turkic-Sunni Muslim Turkey."
In others words, in this neighborhood the big struggle is between the Arabs, the Turks, and the Persians, and these ethnic struggles regularly run over country borders which are "porous and ineffectual." ISIS wants to create a new state by unifying parts of neighbors Iraq and Syria into one continuous region.
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