Article: Roundup: Mistrust remains high in Iraq despite end of Sunni boycottof parliament

Roundup: Mistrust remains high in Iraq despite end of Sunni boycottof parliament

BAGHDAD, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Political rifts in war-torn Iraq are nowhere near bridged although Iraq's largest Sunni political bloc, the Iraq Accordance Front (IAF), returned to parliament on Monday, ending their two-day boycott.

Ahmed Suleiman, a lawmaker from the IAF, said early in the day that the lawmakers of his bloc were returning to the parliament and the bloc's leader Adnan al-Dulaimi was scheduled to deliver a speech to explain what happened during the past few days.

The confrontation is a telling reminder of the nations deeply- entrenched discord between the Shiites and Sunnis.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of ...

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