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Kurdistan24
January 26, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A car bomb went off near a Shia mosque in a southern suburb of Kirkuk while unidentified gunmen attacked a liquor store in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad, security sources and witnessed said on Thursday. The security situation in Kirkuk has significantlyÃâà...
Washington Examiner
August 18, 2017
At the same time, the U.S. Army led efforts to restore basic security in predominantly Sunni neighborhoods in and around Baghdad. That meant young men abandoning AQI and supporting U.S. efforts to deconstruct the terrorists. For a time (until President Barack Obama withdrew U.S. forces from Iraq at theÃâà...
National Geographic
August 1, 2014
Many Iraqi Kurds, for example, are Sunni, but that doesn't mean they share the same political vision as most Sunni in Baghdad. ..... Abu Haidar, 59, a former army general who is now a realtor, is a longtime resident of Ghazaliya, a mixed Shiite-Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad where renewed sectarian tensions are rising.
Human Rights Watch
July 31, 2014
“Asa'ib is not just kidnapping people in Ma`alif, Ameriyya, Ghazaliyya, Kahdraa', Dora, and Saidiyya,” said the man, referring to majority-Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad. “A good friend, a member of Asa'ib in Diyala, told me that when they're in the company of military and the police, they [Asa'ib] give theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
July 20, 2014
Proud Sunni neighborhood writhes under Iraq's Shiite security forces. By By Patrick J. McDonnell. Jul 20, 2014 | 5:00 AM. | Baghdad. Proud Sunni neighborhood writhes under Iraq's Shiite security forces. Iraqi Sunni Awakening fighters escort a tribal leader into the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad's Adhamiya neighborhoodÃâà...
RollingStone.com
July 17, 2014
For the next six months, I drove a Humvee around a Sunni neighborhood in south Baghdad called Dora, and then down the highway to Karbala and .... Strongholds controlled by Shiite political parties and foreign embassies rose up over abandoned houses, while entire Sunni neighborhoods were shut inÃâà...
New York Times
June 26, 2014
“It is fair to say that nowadays there is only fear in us,” said Muthan al-Ani, a Sunni who sells household appliances and lives in the majority Sunni neighborhood of Ameriya in western Baghdad. “The only worry I have now is if they arrest me, what will my wife and child do without me? I know that even if theyÃâà...
The Guardian
September 30, 2013
Other parked car bombs went off in quick succession in the Shia neighbourhoods of New Baghdad, Habibiya, Sabaa al-Bour, Kazimiyah, Shaab, Ur, Shula as well as the Sunni neighborhoods of Jamiaa and Ghazaliyah. Police officers said 44 people were killed and 139 wounded. In the evening, a roadsideÃâà...
lareviewofbooks
December 31, 1999
Ahmed Saadawi's prize-winning 2013 novel Frankenstein in Baghdad belongs to this group of Shelley-influenced texts. Jonathan .... Shia neighborhood] they spoke of him as a Wahhabi [considered an extreme sect of Sunni Islam], in Adamiya [a predominately Sunni neighborhood] as a Shiite extremist.
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