Iraq is holding its first nationwide census in nearly four decades this week, a long-awaited count in a nation that has been ...

Iraq is holding its first nationwide census in nearly four decades this week, a long-awaited count in a nation that has been ...

Either of these conflicts could arise along any of the major fault lines in Iraq: Shia-Sunni ... against perceived AQI safe havens in Sunni-populated areas. Potential Arab-Kurd violence is ...

The main centers of Muslim population in the U.S. are large urban areas, including New ... Today, it follows the Shia branch of Islam unlike its Sunni neighbors. It is in a three-way power ...

The Sunni areas, in the centre and west of the country ... Later, he struck the Mehdi Army of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr in a Baghdad suburb. He won in both instances, but at a terrible toll. His Shia ...

This summer , on a visit home, I went to hear the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre, in the Karradah district of Baghdad ... is required to be Shia, the president Kurdish and ...

the country's president represents the Kurdish community, the prime minister is a Shia Muslim, and the parliament speaker is ...

Sunnis concern about the presence of Iraqi Shia militia and Iranian commander near Fallujah city, west of Baghdad, said former governor of ... “The presence of Qassim Soleimani in the area is a ...

Muhandis has achieved a senior position in Baghdad, with the ability to command forces ... The decision to withdraw the Iran-backed Shia militias from the Sunni-populated areas comes after efforts by ...

I also went to more remote areas such as Sir Bani Yas Island ... and the long history of mutual interactions reveals that the conflict between Shia/Sunni, Iran and Arabia in the news today was not ...

There has clearly been measured progress in a number of areas. The establishment of ... hunkering down in ethnically pure neighborhoods. Baghdad is increasingly becoming a monolithically Shia city, ...