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Iranian Students Hurl Firebombs at Saudi Embassy

TEHRAN, Iran -- Scores of Iranian students have attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy with firebombs to protest the Gulf country's role in cracking down on anti-government protesters in Bahrain. The official IRNA news agency says protesters tried to attach a flag of the Lebanese group Hezbollah to the embassy's gate Monday,...

Bahrain Protesters Call for Ouster for Royal Family

MANAMA, Bahrain -- A group of protesters Monday called for the ouster of Bahrain's entire ruling monarchy as part of sweeping demands to call off a weeklong uprising in the tiny, but strategically important Gulf nation. Tensions are still high in Bahrain after seesaw battles that saw riot police open fire on protesters...

Is More at Stake for US in Tiny Bahrain Than in Egypt?

WASHINGTON -- Most Americans couldn't find Bahrain on a map before this week, but the escalating violence unfolding in the tiny island monarchy could do more damage to U.S. interests in the Middle East than the more high-profile revolution in Egypt. Bahrain is a tiny group of islands that could fit nearly six times over...

Bahrain Protests Update [VIDEOS]

As anti-government sentiment spreads across the Middle East, two people have been killed in Bahrain, sources say. On Monday protesters filled the streets outside the Persian Gulf state's capital of Manama during a "day of rage." Police reportedly responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, fatally wounding one protester...

Hezbollah Candidate to Form Lebanese Government

BEIRUT -- The candidate backed by Iranian-allied Hezbollah was designated Tuesday to form Lebanon's next government, angering Sunnis who protested the rising power of the Shiite militant group by burning tires and torching a van belonging to Al-Jazeera. The president appointed Harvard-educated billionaire businessman and...

Background on Sunnis

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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