Sat. November 21, 2009
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Christian Science Monitor
November 20, 2009
The history of
Shiites in their conflict with
Sunnis is a history of the downtrodden. They have been the underdogs in
Islamic history, and have had to ...
Foreign Policy
November 20, 2009
Jamestown Foundation
November 20, 2009
The adoption of the
Sunni Hanafi school of Shari'a by the Arab Zaidis brings them theologically closer to their
Sunni neighbors in
Yemen than to the distant ...
Christian Science Monitor
November 20, 2009
That election was largely boycotted by Sunnis, resulting in a lack of political power that was seen as helping to fuel the insurgency. ...
Winston-Salem Journal
November 20, 2009
Baghdad -- A leader of a
Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death for
kidnapping and murder yesterday, setting off charges that the
Shiite-dominated ...
phillyBurbs.com
November 20, 2009
Boston Globe
November 20, 2009
Investor's Business Daily
November 19, 2009
The new demand coupled with a veto threat earlier in the week by the country's
Sunni VP could derail the vote. The election and its aftermath could ...
Voice of America
November 19, 2009
He wants parliament to allocate more seats to minorities and to
Iraqis living abroad, which include a large number of
Sunnis. Such a revision would oblige ...
Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2009
A majority of the refugees are Sunnis. Iraqi law gives the nation's two vice presidents as well as its president the power to veto legislation. ...
The Media Line
November 18, 2009
Scholars at an influential
Sunni Muslim theological center have issued an edict urging calm ahead of
Wednesday night's decisive
soccer match between
Egypt ...
Reuters
November 18, 2009
"There's still a small foreign element to
al Qaeda, there are some who used to be
Sunni rejectionists or ex-Baathists who are involved in this because of ...
Reuters
November 18, 2009
Baghdad, Nov 18 (Reuters) -
Iraq's
Sunni Arab vice president said on
Wednesday he had vetoed part of an election law over the allocation of seats to ...
Reuters
November 18, 2009
Reuters
November 16, 2009
New York Times
November 15, 2009
Iraqi civilian casualties have dropped sharply, the result of both
the United States surge and negotiations with
Sunni groups. There has been political ...
Reuters
November 14, 2009
Many minority
Sunnis live in the desert area, which has seen an increase in
bombings and clashes between security forces, ethnic Baluch
Sunni Insurgents and ...
"This gets played off as
Sunni-
Shia, and it's wrong," says Hiltermann of ICG. "The
Shia of
Yemen are more
Sunni than any other Shia in the world. ...
"If you didn't tolerate and accept everything from the
Sunnis, you were treated like an American ally," says Mr. Hormoz, a
teacher who moved his three sons ...
He was referring to
Shiite Zaidi rebels, loyal to commander Abdul-Malek al-Huthi, who have been embroiled in a war with
Sunni-ruled
Yemen's
army in north of ...
Resolution of
Lebanon's political crisis could ease regional tensions between US-backed
Sunni Arab states on the one hand and
Iran and
Syria, ...
Both are secular
Shiites who have allied themselves with leading
Sunni politicians. Four years ago
Iraqi Sunnis mostly boycotted the parliamentary elections ...
The sons of late imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah broke their silence
Friday night during a meeting at the
Muslim Community Center ...
He went on to advise Arab regimes to "support a
Sunni separatist movement in
Iran like Al-Ahwaz in the west or the Baluchists in the east". ...
World Politics Review
November 5, 2009
Monsters and Critics.com
November 5, 2009
'The case of
Kirkuk is still the biggest obstacle on the election law,'
Sunni
RTT News
November 5, 2009
(RTTNews) -
Iran has executed a member of the
Sunni
BBC News
November 3, 2009
Huffington Post (blog)
November 3, 2009
Media Channel
November 3, 2009
Sunnis
BBC News
November 3, 2009
Reuters
November 3, 2009
...
Sunni dictator
Saddam Hussein and helped fuel the still-active insurgency. If
Sunnis, who are believed to make up roughly 20 percent of the population, ...
Reuters India
November 2, 2009
...
New York Times
November 1, 2009
The
bombings, which killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 50, killed both police officers and civilians and struck
Sunni
Los Angeles Times
October 30, 2009
Multiple
Sunni parties plan to take part in January's election, which
analysts consider a good sign. But the
Sunnis also make clear they expect something ...
