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Sunni Tribes, Abandoned by Iraq, Key to ISIS Fight
Parading across a desert base, hundreds of Sunni tribesmen who graduated a crash-training course stood ready to take on the ISIS group on behalf of a government
Syrian Rebels Accuse Kurds of ‘Ethnic Cleansing,’ Kurds Deny
More than a dozen Syrian rebel and militant groups on Monday accused the country’s main Kurdish militia of committing “ethnic cleansing” against Arabs and Turkmen in northern Syria
The Case for Aiding Anbar, ISIS-Controlled Iraqi Province
Anbar is the virtually 100 percent Sunni Arab province of Iraq that resisted the American invasion in 2003-2004, gave birth to the Awakening movement that fought with the Americans against al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2006-2007, wanted American bases to remain in Iraq, hosted peaceful mass protests against Nuri al-Maliki’s government in 2013, and largely fell to the Islamic State (ISIS) and its Ba‘thist allies starting in 2014.
Iraqi Shiite Militias Killing Sunnis, Says Amnesty International
Iraqi Shiite militias have abducted and killed scores of Sunni civilians with the tacit support of the government in retaliation for Islamic State group attacks, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
Ramadan 2014 Calendar: Muslim Tradition, Customs, What, When, Why, Photos
Across a wide belt that stretches halfway around the globe, the world’s estimated 1.6 billion Muslims will mark the beginning of Ramadan this weekend.
