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Thu. March 11, 2010

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Ray Odierno's hand in his old neighborhood, Ghazaliya, where Ali commanded one of the first Baghdad branches of a Sunni paramilitary movement that helped ...
Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi was the head of Sunni Islam's most prominent seminary, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar institute. The 81-year-old cleric had been in ...
There has been no real reconciliation between Sunni Muslim Arabs and Sunni Kurds in the north, the place that US military leaders think will be the most ...

the White House on Wednesday offered its condolences following the death of Sunni Islam's top cleric, who last year hosted President Barack Obama's landmark ...
Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent seats of Sunni Islamic learning in the Muslim world, has schools, universities and other educational institutions across ...
With the Americans angry at the Sunnis, and Riyadh in particular, over the attacks, the Iranians saw a window of opportunity to push their case that, ...
While preliminary Iraq election results aren't due out until Wednesday, turnout in Sunni provinces was as high as 75 percent, say news reports. Many Sunnis ...
Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, head of Egypt's most prestigious seat of learning, al Azhar, suffered a heart attack earlier today during a visit to Saudi ...
... the controversy over banning key Sunni candidates from running could still be felt, but there were no major boycotts and turnout among Sunnis was high. ...
... US officials hailed as a historic milestone -- and inflame supporters of a coalition that appears to have done well in secular and Sunni communities. ...
Participation is nearly 75% in Sunni-dominated Salahuddin province. Turnout in Baghdad is lower, possibly dampened by a morning bombardment by militants. ...
The turnout was higher than last year's provincial election despite attempts by Sunni Islamist Insurgents to disrupt the vote with attacks that killed 39. ...
... of her time with Iraqis, who fled to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. She has new book out Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East.
The clear intent of that effort was to force Maliki to adopt a fierce, anti-Baathist (and sectarian, anti-Sunni) stance, which partly succeeded, ...
... in 2005 when many Sunnis boycotted the process. Authorities say more than 60 percent of voters turned out in Iraq's Sunni-dominated provinces of Anbar, ...
Now Sunnis are determined to make their votes count. Many see secular electoral lists with strong Sunni components as the best means of regaining a fairer ...
There had been fears that Sunnis might stay away, amid feelings of widespread alienation from the political process after a widespread boycott of the 2005 ...
Sunni Arab radicalism would likely be tamped down. For Washington, it would be the best of all possible worlds-- a pro-American Iraqi government headed by a ...
Before they were united, but now they have different, separate lists, and it's the same with the Kurds and Sunnis. "Any delays in forming a government after ...
Sunnis and Shiites alike went to the polls sunday in defiance of Insurgents who lobbed hand grenades at voters and bombed a polling station. ...
The turnout is seen as a barometer of Sunni political feeling. There had been fears that Sunnis might stay away, amid feelings of widespread alienation. ...
mortar rounds were fired at voting centres in Baghdad and in Salahuddin province, a Sunni stronghold that was home to toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, ...
In heavily Sunni Anbar Province, observers expected strong performances by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's Iraqiya list the Iraqi Accordance Front which ...
But according to one former aide to Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has already stolen sunday's election by destroying the Sunni Arab vote ...
Sunnis largely boycotted the previous national election, in 2005, which resulted in political alienation for the sect and helped tip the country near ...
The group, which distributed warning fliers in Sunni Arab neighborhoods, had hoped to discredit the democratic process and inflame tensions between Sunnis ...
As Iraq goes to the polls, Gabriel Gatehouse looks at the fragile relationship between Sunni and Shia communities which holds the key ...
The majority Sunnis boycotted their first election in protest at the US occupation, essentially falling prey to pride over prudence, and giving the polls ...
In four trips there as vice president, Biden said, "I have met with every single solitary one of the players in Iraq -- Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, Christian. ...
He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by former a secular Shi'ite, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc have both reached out to Sunnis and other ...
Sunni Muslims were feeling increasingly excluded and punished by the Shiite Muslim majority. It was victims' revenge for the Sunnis, who were favored by ...
money for some Shi'ite candidates is said to have come from Iran, while Saudis are supposed to have funnelled cash to hard-line Sunnis. ...
But many Sunnis have now begun engaging with the state, and Sunni voters are expected to turn out in force tomorrow, in stark contrast to the last ...
Insurgents have warned Iraqis, especially minority Sunni Arabs dominant under Saddam Hussein, to stay at home on sunday. Sunni militants say the vote will ...
Since November 2007, about 2000 people have died in clashes between Shiites of the Turi tribe and rival Mangal tribe Sunnis. With files from AP.
But the ban could fuel Sunni complaints of unfairness should the election not go their way, and it has heightened the Sunnis' sense of alienation from a ...
Tensions between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and Shi'ites had made the road unsafe for the minorities traveling to the nearby Kurram tribal region. ...
... and its failure to prevent several major bomb blasts, have cut into Mr. Maliki's Sunni support. Sunnis also cite the widespread belief that Mr. Maliki, ...


 


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