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Saudi King Announces Wage Hikes, Holds Fast Against Political Reform

MANAMA, Bahrain -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah announced today a $10.7 billion package of benefits for citizens after returning to the country from a three-month absence for medical treatment. But there was no mention of political reforms despite popular uprisings sweeping across the Arab world. The economic incentives...

Thousands Join Bahrain Protests; King to Free Some Political Prisoners

MANAMA, Bahrain -- Marchers chanting "the people want the downfall of the regime" flooded the major thoroughfare leading into Pearl Square today in the biggest protest Bahrain has seen since anti-government demonstrations began 10 days ago. Tens of thousands of men walked from the Bahrain mall into the capital's main...

Tamara Chalabi Writes of Another Iraq Before the War

WASHINGTON -- To most Americans, "Iraq" is a war. But for Tamara Chalabi, it is more than "a desert of tanks, screaming women and barefoot children." It is the homeland she never knew, "a modern state, an ancient land, a nation, a word, a song, a river, a grave, a shrine, a statue of a deer." As the last U.S. troops...

Sunni Walkout Casts Doubt on Iraq Power-Sharing Deal

BAGHDAD (Nov. 11) -- Iraq's president gave Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the nod to form the next government Thursday after an eight-month deadlock, keeping him in his post despite a dramatic Sunni walkout from parliament that demonstrated the deep distrust between the two sides. The walkout and the fact that it...

Iraq's Marathon: Fight Over Leader, Then Posts

BAGHDAD (Oct. 4) -- The flurry to close the first chapter of Iraq's seven-month political drama is suddenly intense with angry Sunnis pledging to dig in for a fight while Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki tries to win over the last few allies he needs to stay in power. But after the struggle for prime minister is...

Background on Sunni

Sunni Islam ( or ) is the largest branch of Islam. Sunni Muslims are referred to in Arabic as ʾAhlu-s-Sunnati wa-l-Jamāʿah (), "people of the tradition of Muhammad and the consensus of the Ummah" or ʾAhlu-s-Sunnah () for short; in English, they are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis or Sunnites.

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