NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Adeed Dawisha, professor of political science at Miami University, Ohio, about the region in Iraq commonly referred to as the Sunni triangle. Dawisha says the area ...

2003-10-06 04:00:00 PDT Fallujah, Iraq-- Five months after President Bush declared the end of "major combat" in Iraq, the war may indeed be over for most of the country. But not for Sheikh ...

Iraq's Election: Sunni Triangle and Kurdish Areas Host Jennifer Ludden continues her election analysis with Phebe Marr and retired U.S. Army General William Nash.

FALLUJAH, Iraq – In a scene reminiscent of Somalia (search), frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four American contractors through the streets of a town west of Baghdad ...

In early March, Baghdad started a push to retake the historic city of Tikrit, in the center of the so-called Sunni triangle. Some Americans must be feeling a sense of déjà vu; the U.S. military tried ...

Most Sunni Arabs reside in central Iraq, including the so-called Sunni Triangle, an area that stretches northwest of Baghdad and encompasses insurgent strongholds like Tikrit (Saddam’s hometown ...

Iraq's Sunni tribes helped defeat al-Qaeda in 2008. ... Al-Qaeda ruled Iraq’s so-called Sunni Triangle, spanning the distance between the Syrian border to the northwest, ...

Military experts discuss the U.S. response to gruesome attacks on U.S. soldiers and civilians in the Sunni Triangle area of Iraq. For more on the challenges of the Sunni Triangle, we go to retired ...

TARMIYAH, Iraq — Here in the heart of the Sunni Triangle, former regime loyalists -- or FRLs, as the GIs call them -- are as numerous as scorpions and the deck is stacked against anyone trying ...

2004-11-18 04:00:00 PDT Baghdad-- Ambushes and bomb attacks jolted central and northern Iraq on Wednesday as insurgents pressed a campaign against U.S. and Iraqi forces after the American-led ...