Map on Monday: Current (Nov 2017) Maps showing military areas of control in Iraq and Syria

These excellent maps are from Al Jazeera-the Arabic/English news agency based in Qatar that Saudi Arabia has demanded be shut down in their campaign against Qatar. {ed: Maps were uploaded on Nov 3} See our review of Syria here (at the end of our review article is a 7 minute history video from VOX that has been viewed 100 million times--the best short history of the Syrian civil war anywhere). AOA on how the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has added Yemen and Qatar to the enemy list of the salafist regime which is our real enemy in the Mideast. Our thoughts on the need for a more religiously coherent nationalist strategy after the expulsion of ISIS.