Eight American soldiers were reported to have been killed in an ambush in the Iraqi Sunni Triangle town of Khaldiyah. Their convoy was hit by a remote-controlled roadside bomb and then came under ...

Fallujah -- on the western leg of the so-called Sunni Triangle -- is a hotbed of the anti-U.S. insurgency. Support for ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was strong in the region, which extends ...

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"And that focus kept a lot of Marines alive in Helmand province, kept a lot of Marines alive in Iraq, in the Sunni Triangle." "So, again, I can't apologize for previous generations of Marines to ...

An Iraqi man prays on the tomb of an unknown person at a cemetery in the central city of Karbala. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims are mainly expressed through different religious ...