Signs of a New Sunni Offensive
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Viewpoint: The attack on Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan and the murder of four Frenchmen in Saudi Arabia show that militant Sunnis are a growing danger
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US forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of the capital, pounding targets in three urban centers from the air and supporting Iraqi troops in raids on mosques suspected of harboring insurgents
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New estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas on Sunni lands are likely to have significant political effects.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces continued targeting Sunni insurgents in the city of Baqubah, north of Baghdad yesterday, the second day of a major offensive aimed at stamping out the Sunni extremist group Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Attacks in Iraq reached a high of approximately 180 a day last month, reflecting an increasingly complicated conflict that includes sectarian clashes of Sunni and Shiite militias on top of continuing strikes by insurgents, criminal gangs and al-Qaeda terrorists, according to the directors of the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency....
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Analysis: Fatah al-Islam may be a harbinger of a new Jihadist campaign against the west
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In Baquba, local Sunni residents, including a number of former insurgents, have emerged as a linchpin of the American strategy.
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Appeals for calm by Shiites and Sunnis, as well as American officials in Iraq, appeared to have headed off the risk of a new sectarian convulsion, at least for now.
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Al Qaeda's new leader in Iraq said the   country's Sunni politicians were treacherous and warned of more   attacks against U.S.-led forces there, according to an Internet   audio tape posted on Thursday.
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Islamist faction's fighters launch new attacks.
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U.S. forces fighting al-Qaida and allied militants intensified operations Wednesday in Baghdad and on all four points of the compass around the capital. To the south, suspected Shiite militiamen bombed three Sunni houses of worship in what may presage a war of the mosques.
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Developments in Iraq on Tuesday:
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Insurgents continued their attacks on Iraq&#39;s fledgling security forces yesterday in a series of bloody assaults across the Sunni triangle that killed at least 22 people, including 17 policeman, and injured more than 30.
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Growing divisions among pro-US Sunni tribal chiefs threatens to unravel American gains against Al Qaeda.
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BAGHDAD, June 22 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces continued a new offensive against the Sunni extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq in and around the city of Baqubah on Friday, killing 17 insurgents in a helicopter attack, but a senior U.S. military commander said it appeared that most of the group's leaders had...
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In what may be a glimpse of things to come, some U.S.-backed local militias are starting to shoot at each other
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Major attacks have continued in recent days, including several apparent efforts to sow divisions between groups.