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Newsweek
March 8, 2018
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi makes a public appearance at a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, according to a video posted online on July 5, 2014. Reuters/Social ... In previous years, Iraqi sources have said his whereabouts were most likely in the Sunni heartlands of the western Iraqi desert. Some say that heÃâà...
Newsweek
March 5, 2018
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi makes his first public appearance at a mosque in the center of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video ... The ministry said it believed Russian warplanes had actually killed the ultraconservative Sunni Muslim cleric in a May 28 airstrike targeting a meeting of ISISÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
March 2, 2018
Fleeing civilians walking past the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continued their advance against Islamic State militants in the old city of .... Tehran's actions in Iraq are just part of what they see as a broader plan to dominate the region and set up a clash between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Al-Monitor
February 23, 2018
1 in Baghdad in the presence of the head of the Sunni Endowment in Iraq, Abdul Latif al-Humim. Kubaisi criticized the absence of a top Sunni leader and proposed the appointment of Humim as Sunni marja. "Sunnis have now an opportunity to be led by a commander. We have finally found a man in whomÃâà...
FRONTLINE
February 20, 2018
So the French military in Syria was heavily Alawite, and the British establishment in Iraq was heavily Sunni. So when .... The first one is the Iranian Revolution of 1979; the second one is attack on American Embassy in Pakistan; the third is the occupation of the Grand Mosque in Mecca; and the fourth is theÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 19, 2018
Some Sunni media outlets interpreted the attack as a sign that Iraqis in general, both Shiites and Sunnis, are frustrated with Sistani and sectarianism. Sistani has faced social ... In 2012, a Sistani-affiliated cleric survived a grenade attack by an unknown perpetrator in front of a mosque. However, as IraqisÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 18, 2018
The Iraqi Antiquities Authority said the maintenance and restoration works at the mosque will be financed by the Iraqi Sunni Endowment using proceeds" collected from mosque tourists during Saddam Hussein's regime. Khalaf said the restoration plan will include “the construction of infrastructure under theÃâà...
