Just when Americans were getting to know the Sons of Iraq, otherwise known as the “Sunni Awakening” — if only at the base level of whether they began B.S or A.S.S (Before Surge or After the Senator’s ...

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces shot at American boats on the Tigris River north of Baghdad in a friendly fire incident that left six Iraqis dead after U.S. forces returned fire, Iraqi police and ...

Three blasts struck mourners at a funeral in northern Iraq for a leader of the Sunni Awakening movement in Diyala Province. By Yasir Ghazi Efan al-Essawi, a member of Parliament and a leader of the ...

At least 50 people were killed and 20 injured when a suicide bomber struck the funeral of two brothers who belonged to the Sunni Awakening Council, an organization whose purpose is to turn Sunni ...

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When considering what lessons the U.S. military can take from Iraq to Afghanistan, defense analysts point to the so-called surge in Iraq. They say the surge never would have succeeded without the help ...

Anbar province governor Maamoun Sami Rashid al-Alwani, second from right, Iraq's national security adviser Muwafaq al-Rubaie, center, and Sunni leader Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, second from left, attend ...

U.S.-backed Sunni volunteer forces, which have played a vital role in reducing violence in Iraq, are increasingly frustrated with the American military and the Iraqi government over what they see as a ...

Mourners chant slogans as they carry coffins of victims killed by a suicide bomber during the funeral in the holy city of Karbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad January 10, 2014. A suicide bomber ...

Al Qaeda in Iraq posted a video Monday begging fighters who switched sides during the "Sunni Awakening" to switch back, the Associated Press reports. The terrorist group promises that fighters who ...

Thirteen years after 9/11, Islamic militants have seized a state-sized territory in the heart of the Middle East, and the United States is struggling to determine how to respond. The two main ...