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Minneapolis Star Tribune
August 21, 2008
Hegseth is greatly encouraged by the progress in
Samarra, which he says is mirrored throughout
Iraq. But he remains wary that
US forces and the Iraqi ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
August 21, 2008
Newsweek
August 21, 2008
They've vacated the
Sunni Triangle. Virtually the entire
Sunni Arab population has turned against them, and nowadays not a single Sunni imam,
politician or ...
Free Internet Press
August 21, 2008
Indeed, the way ahead in
Iraq seems anything but clear, with many arrangements that are keeping the peace - like 100000
Sunni gunmen, many of them former ...
New York Times
August 21, 2008
International Herald Tribune
August 20, 2008
They were denied treatment at a
Baghdad hospital because
Sunni Insurgents threatened hospital staff. Healing the
children, a Spokane-based nonprofit ...
Voice of America
August 20, 2008
He is the son of Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads
Iraq's largest
Sunni Arab political bloc, The National Accordance Front. The elder al-Dulaimi says his son is ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
August 20, 2008
2TheAdvocate
August 20, 2008
How have the cities been walled off,
Sunnis from
Shiites, Shiites from Sunnis? What has happened to the
Infrastructure of a country with the third-richest ...
Asia Times Online
August 20, 2008
All of the returning refugees are
Sunnis. Mohammad Askari, the pro-
Maliki spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, added to Maliki's PR campaign by saying on ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
August 20, 2008
Hegseth is greatly encouraged by the progress in
Samarra, which he says is mirrored throughout
Iraq. But he remains wary that
US forces and the Iraqi ...
Voice of America
August 19, 2008
The National
August 19, 2008
As US and
Iraqi troops surged in and around
Baghdad last year, other
Sunni leaders threatened by extremists realised that aligning themselves with coalition ...
Los Angeles Times
August 19, 2008
Obama did, however, make a nod to the changed circumstances on the ground in
Iraq. He allowed that "gains have been made in lowering the level of violence ...
Los Angeles Times
August 19, 2008
Boston Globe
August 19, 2008
Reuters
August 19, 2008
Newsweek
August 19, 2008
When the neighborhood
Sunni group known as the Sons of
Iraq turned 50 local
al Qaeda types over to the
Americans, the pool operator was among those arrested ...
Foreign Policy Passport
August 18, 2008
Many
Sunnis remain deeply distrustful of the central
government. Although
Maliki has brought a few members of the
Sunni-dominated Iraqi Accordance Front ...
Voice of America
August 18, 2008
Ramadi was previously one of
Iraq's most dangerous towns until local
Sunni tribes turned against
al-Qaida militants in 2006 and 2007. ...
Yahoo! Italia Notizie
August 18, 2008
Asia Times Online
August 18, 2008
Kahl said in the briefing that, of the 103000
Sunnis belonging to those
militias, the
Iraqi government had promised to take into the security forces only ...
Los Angeles Times
August 18, 2008
Iraqi distance runner Mahmoud Kamil Ahmed shows photographs of
family members slain by
Sunni Arab
Insurgents in July 2007. Insurgents attacked his family's ...
AlterNet
August 18, 2008
David Petraeus, the rapprochement with the
Sunnis actually began well before the new troops arrived. More importantly, it will likely prove short-lived if ...
Adnkronos International Italia
August 18, 2008
Reuters UK
August 18, 2008
Providence Journal
August 17, 2008
The
Sunnis rally to the American cause and form the Sawha (Awakening) to rout
al-Qaida. The
Shiites, the majority in
Iraq who have it in for the Sunnis, ...
Reuters
August 17, 2008
The province, with a
religious mix of
Sunni and Shi'ite
Muslims and an ethnic mix of Arabs and
Kurds, has been the scene of a crackdown by US and Iraqi ...
New York Times
August 17, 2008
One
Sunni resident said he and his family fled the area two years ago to live in
Kirkuk with
relatives, but felt safe enough to return in the past two ...
CounterPunch
August 16, 2008
The rise in
Iraqi female suicide bombers ultimately illustrates the hollow nature of the widely touted US counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq; at best, ...
Kansas City Star
August 16, 2008
A bureaucratic dispute almost kept the entire
Iraqi team out of these Olympics. The International Olympic Committee suspended Iraq for dissolving its ...
International Herald Tribune
August 16, 2008
Late on Friday, a van packed with
explosives was detonated at a bus station where pilgrims were assembling in
Balad, a Shi'ite town in a mainly
Sunni area ...
Los Angeles Times
August 16, 2008
From a podium decked in flowers and the Iraqi flag, a
Sunni Muslim sheik in a pinstriped suit politely welcomed the
Shiite guests who had driven up from ...
Boston Globe
August 16, 2008
US and
Iraqi officials said the blast occurred yesterday evening at a bus terminal in
Balad, a mostly Shi'ite town surrounded by
Sunni villages about 50 ...
Reuters
August 15, 2008
His two vice presidents are a Shi'ite and a
Sunni Arab. Talabani had a major impact on Iraqi politics last month when he vetoed a law needed to hold ...
