Arab World Deeply Split Over Fighting

AP Online;  July 21, 2006 ;     787 words ......exposed divisions across the Arab world, not only between Shiites...United States, predominantly Sunni countries such as Saudi...one hand, predominantly Sunni Arab states are tacitly encouraging...Arabia - the bulwark of the Sunni Arab world - has tried to ...

Arab World Deeply Split Over Hezbollah

AP Online;  July 21, 2006 ;     787 words ......exposed divisions across the Arab world, not only between Shiites...United States, predominantly Sunni countries such as Saudi...one hand, predominantly Sunni Arab states are tacitly encouraging...Arabia - the bulwark of the Sunni Arab world - has tried to ...

Hezbollah chief wins admirers: Nasrallah's success unites Arab world.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  August 4, 2006 ;     787 words ......28-year-old accountant, who is Sunni. He's defending Lebanon. It...constituency. Across the largely Sunni Arab world, the Islamist leader whose...that of the last generation's Arab hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser...being feted by the mostly Sunni Arab world makes his ...

The transformation of Saddam Arab world declares his image cleansed

International Herald Tribune;  January 6, 2007 ;   Hassan M. Fattah;   787 words ......overtones, his public image in the Arab world, formerly that of a convicted dictator...Internet, Saddam has re-emerged as a Sunni Arab hero who stood calm and composed as...began looking at him as a martyr.''The Arab world has been devoid of pride for a long...Iranian influence from ...

Leaders Urge AIDS Talk in Arab World

AP Online;  November 7, 2006 ;     317 words ......cases of HIV - the virus that causes AIDS - in the Arab world and stressed the need to break the region's silence...More than 300 Muslim and Christian leaders from 20 Arab states gathered in Cairo at the Arab League to discuss HIV and AIDS to help break the taboo that the disease has in the ...

Iraq MPs clash over which Sunni Arab will be speaker.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 30, 2005 ;     294 words ......trying to come up with a name for the Sunni Arab candidate that MPs promised would be...Allawi, interim President Ghazi alYawer, a Sunni Arab, insisted on turning down the speaker...Alliance was considering nominating a Sunni Arab from its coalition, Sheik Fawaz al-Jarba...

Urgent: Sunni Arab linked to Allawi chosen as speaker nominee

Xinhua News Agency;  March 29, 2005 ;     64 words ...Urgent: Sunni Arab linked to Allawi chosen as speaker nominee BAGHDAD, March 29 (Xinhua) -- A Sunni Arab linked to outgoing Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has been selected by Sunni Arab politicians as the nominee for the post of speaker, a legislator...

Arab World debates Iraqi elections

The Arab American News;  January 1, 2005 ;   Anonymous;   772 words ......political process well enough to vote. Clerics from Iraq's Sunni Arab minority, which fears losing the political dominance it...the pro-government Egyptian daily Al Ahram echoed concerns Sunni Arab Iraqis would be disenfranchised, which it said would lead...democracy, it obviously becomes an ...

VOA NEWS: BODIES OF 14 SUNNI ARAB MEN FOUND IN BAGHDAD

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 4, 2006 ;     129 words ......Voice of America issued the following story: Sunni Arab groups in Iraq are blaming Shi'ite-led security forces for the killing of 14 Sunni Arab men whose bodies were found Friday in Baghdad. The Sunni Arab groups say Interior Ministry forces picked...

Iraq's parliament rejects Sunni Arab candidate for defense minister

Xinhua News Agency;  May 3, 2005 ;     197 words ...Iraq's parliament rejects Sunni Arab candidate for defense minister BAGHDAD...legislators in the Iraqi parliament rejected the Sunni Arab candidate for the post of new defense minister, a Sunni Arab member of parliament told Xinhua on Tuesday...

Iraqi Sunni Arab lawmakers boycott parliament meetings

Xinhua News Agency;  July 2, 2006 ;     117 words ...Iraqi Sunni Arab lawmakers boycott parliament meetings BAGHDAD, July 2 (Xinhua) -- The Sunni Arab bloc in the Iraqi parliament decided on...morning unknown gunmen kidnapped a female Sunni Arab lawmaker, Taiseer Najah al-Mashhadani, along...

Iraq says 80 rebels killed in attack on training camp: Team forming new...

Charleston Daily Mail;  March 23, 2005 ;   THE ASSOCIATED PRESS;   613 words ......days said negotiators are considering a Sunni Arab as defense minister in a move aimed at...bloc and a Kurdish coalition could tap a Sunni Arab to head the ministry of defense, which...insurgency. "The Defense Ministry will go to a Sunni Arab because we do not want Arab Sunnis to...

Bodies of 14 Sunni Arab Iraqi men found dumped in Baghdad

AP Worldstream;  February 4, 2006 ;     307 words ......Iraq The bullet-riddled bodies of 14 Sunni Arab men purportedly seized by police a week...week ago they were while praying at the Sunni Arab Al-Aqsa Mosque in Shula, northwestern...fall in prominence for the once powerful Sunni Arab community, from whose numbers now spawn...

Iraq says 80 rebels killed in clash; politicians say Sunni Arab could be...

AP Worldstream;  March 23, 2005 ;   QASIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer;   557 words ......negotiators are considering naming a Sunni Arab as defense minister in a move aimed at...bloc and a Kurdish coalition could tap a Sunni Arab to head the ministry of defense, which...insurgency. "The defense ministry will go to a Sunni Arab because we do not want Arab Sunnis to...

Sunni Arab leader calls for Iraqi alliance

Xinhua News Agency;  December 17, 2005 ;     170 words ...Sunni Arab leader calls for Iraqi alliance BAGHDAD, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The head of leading Sunni Arab political bloc said on Saturday that his...Saddam Hussein in 2003. The former ruling Sunni Arab minority was marginalized after they largely...