Five explosions occurred last May in Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq. And it is in this delicate context, that the Islamic State (Isis) has decided to show that it still exists.

Many jihadists have returned and are returning from Syria. According to Iraqi and US sources, there are 15,000 Isis militants in Iraq.

Islamic State fighters want to reorganize their activities from the new Iraqi bases, with the risk of destabilizing Iraq's precarious political and institutional balance, once again bringing the country back into polarization ethno-confessional that sees sunniers on the one hand and on the other side the Shiites.

The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is determined not only by political reasons but also, and above all, by doctrinal contrasts.

The two main religious factions of Islam are Shia and Sunniism, so decisive that the balance of this area is still affecting. Sunnis, now almost all Salafis, make up 80% of the Islamic population.

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