Iraq’s top leadership is divided along sectarian lines, with the president being Kurdish and the prime minister usually a Shi’ite. The lower-level speaker of parliament's role goes to Sunnis. Sunnis ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sunni Arabs and a key secular party charged Tuesday that parliamentary elections were tainted by fraud, and demanded an inquiry into preliminary results showing the governing Shiite ...

CAIRO, Egypt — Iraq’s Shiite leader was firm, his aides say — he would not talk to President Bush with Jordan’s Sunni king listening in. That startling show of mistrust in a neighbor led to a ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – The Shiite alliance nominated a tough-talking Shiite politician, Jawad al-Maliki, as prime minister Friday in a move that breaks the long impasse over forming a new government ...

HERE AT THE GREAT UMAYYAD MOSQUE two 10-year-old neighborhood boys have split the Muslim world between themselves. “The Shia side of the mosque is Jafaar’s,” says Munzer. “And the Sunni side is Munzer ...