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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 ...
BAGHDAD, Aug. 14 -- Rising up against insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, Iraqi Sunni Muslims in Ramadi fought with grenade launchers and automatic weapons Saturday to defend their Shiite ...
For Badkhen, foreign ; Al-Sheker, Iraq 09/23/03 A neighbor cautiously examines shrapnel scars on the home of Ali Halif Al-Jumaili in the farming village of Al-Sheker near Falluja.
The violence flared in cities across the Sunni triangle, from Ramadi to Beiji to Kirkuk, though guerrillas largely stayed off the streets of the inflamed city of Mosul on the second day of an ...
H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...
Military experts discuss the U.S. response to gruesome attacks on U.S. soldiers and civilians in the Sunni Triangle area of Iraq.
Iraq's Election: Sunni Triangle and Kurdish AreasHost Jennifer Ludden continues her election analysis with Phebe Marr and retired U.S. Army General William Nash. They look at voter turnout in the ...
This publication is now archived. Who are Iraq’s Sunnis? The divisions among Sunnis that surfaced in the run-up to the October 15 referendum highlight both the fractiousness of the Sunni ...
The four contract workers were killed in Fallujah, a Sunni Triangle (search) city about 35 miles west of Baghdad and scene of some of the worst violence on both sides of the conflict since the ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq – An uptick in airstrikes and other military moves point to an imminent showdown between U.S. forces and Sunni Muslim insurgents west of Baghdad — a decisive battle that could ...