How 1,400-year-old feud between Shia and Sunni Muslims flared into life with the fall of dictators like Gaddafi and Saddam... and threatens to swallow Iraq.
- Sunni and Shia factions have been warring since 632AD disagreement over successor to prophet Muhammad
- State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) advance on Baghdad, where flailing prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - who is Shia - begged his parliament to declare a state of emergency.
- ISIS militants - who are Sunni - have been stampeding through majority-Shia Iraq
- Already, ISIS has effectively established its own nation state - or Islamic caliphate - which spreads across the north of Syria and Iraq, taking no heed of the border between the countries.
10/14/14 update:
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