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NEWS ABOUT: Sunni militants

Sunni militants stories: 11 news summaries

(AP) - Bombs exploded near five Shiite mosques in Baghdad today, killing at least 29 people, according to Iraqi police and hospital officials. The bombings, apparently part of a coordinated attack that targeted worshipers leaving Friday prayers, shattered a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital. The deaths raised to at... More »

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Shiite • Baghdad • Sunni militants • Iraq pullout • troop withdrawal • mosque • Iraq war

(Newser) - Iran publicly hanged three men today in connection with the bombing of a Shi’ite mosque last week that killed at least 30, Reuters reports. Responsibility for the blast has reportedly been claimed by the Sunni militant group Jundollah, which Iran says is part of the al Qaeda network and... More »

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Iran • Sunni militants • execution • bombing • mosque • public executions • shi'ite

(Newser) - Gunmen raised political tensions in Iran today by shooting up a campaign office in Zahedan, the town where a mosque bombing left 23 dead yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Tehran officials accused Washington of supporting the gunmen, who injured up to three people in the office of President Mahmoud... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Sunni militants • bombing • attack • al-Qaeda • gunmen

Iraq Nabs 'Mother' of Female Terrorists

Accused of recruiting
80 suicide bombers

Feb 4, 09 3:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Iraqi forces have arrested a woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers, the Times of London reports. Samira Ahmed Jassim, known as “the mother of the believers,” has confessed to sending 28 women on suicide missions. Jassim also admitted to planning the rapes of many... More »

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insurgents • Sunni militants • suicide bomber • terrorist • female suicide bomber • al-Qaeda • Iraqi Army

 US Hands Anbar
 Province to Iraqis

Military cedes control of largest region in Iraq

Sep 1, 08 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American military is finally handing over control of Anbar province, once the center of the Sunni insurgency, to Iraqi forces today. Once one of Iraq's most dangerous regions, Anbar was transformed as Sunni militants allied themselves with the US. The transfer of Anbar, delayed several times, brings the number... More »

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Iraq • Sunni militants • US military • Anbar • Iraq war • Sunni Awakening

9 Dead, 100 Wounded
in Iran Mosque Blast

Attack scatters meeting of extremist Shiite organization

Apr 12, 08 8:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - A bomb killed nine and wounded more than 100 in an Iranian mosque today, scattering members of an extremist Shiite group, the BBC reports. Police and militia have cordoned off the area while medics attend to victims and local media call for blood donations. No one has claimed responsibility for... More »

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Iran • Shiite • Sunni militants • bombing • mosque • Wahhabism • Persepolis

Sunni Militias Threaten Strike Over Late Pay

Unrest among key
US allies could affect joint security efforts

Mar 21, 08 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - US-allied Sunni militias are threatening to go on strike over late pay. At least two of the 49 Awakening councils that  have been enlisted in the fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq have already done so, reports the Guardian, and the dispute over their $10-a-day payments threatens the partnership that has... More »

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Iraq • Sunni • Sunni militants • strike • labor strike • Awakening Councils • Sunni allies

Huge Blast Kills 15, Wounds 132 in Northern Iraq

Roadside bomb triggers explosion at arms dump in Mosul

Jan 23, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A blast in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul claimed at least 15 lives and left 132 wounded today, Reuters reports. The explosion came after Iraqi troops detonated a roadside bomb near a building used as a munitions dump by militants, a US general said. At least 15 tons of... More »

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Iraq • Sunni militants • Mosul • al-Qaeda in Iraq

Bombs Linked to Iraq Sunni Leader

Car bombs found,
40 arrested in raid
on compound

Dec 1, 07 2:57 PM CST
(Newser) - A raid on the compound of the leader of Iraq's biggest Sunni political bloc saw his son and dozens of guards arrested, reports the Washington Post.  American and Iraqi soldiers found cars wired with explosives outside the compound; one of the guards had the keys. Adnan al-Dulaimi said the... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • Sunni militants • Nouri al-Maliki • Adnan al Duliami • Iraq security

Kurds Forced From Homes
in Mosul

Sunni Arabs, stymied by the political process, resort to violence

May 30, 07 5:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Over 1,000 Kurds have been killed in Mosul recently, victims of a Sunni Arab insurgent drive to force them out of the Ninevah province and into Iraqi Kurdistan. And the attacks are working, reports the International Herald Tribune; as many as 70,000 Kurds have abandoned Iraq's third-largest city. More »

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Iraq • insurgents • Sunni militants • Kurds • Mosul

Deadly Blast Rocks Holy City

Shiite Holy City Rocked by Blast

Apr 28, 07 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb ripped through one of Iraq's holiest cities today, killing at least 58 Iraqis and wounding over 150 as they made their way to evening prayers. Karbala—the site of two major Shiite shrines—is a hotspot for suicide bombers, who killed 47 in an attack just two... More »

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Iraq • Shiite • insurgents • Sunni militants • Karbala • suicide bombing • roadside bomb • car bomb • holy site

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