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Sunni Islam (/ˈsuːni, ˈsʊni/) is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination...

Iraqi Sunni Muslims are Arabs. Iraqi Sunni Muslims mainly inhabit the northern half of Iraq. Sunni Arabs primarily inhabit the Sunni Triangle, Upper Mesopotamia...

Shia Arab Muslims as making up 60% of Iraqis, and Sunni muslims 37%. However, Sunni are split ethnically among Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. Many Sunnis hotly...

The Sunni Triangle is a densely populated region of Iraq to the north and west of Baghdad inhabited mostly by Sunni Muslim Arabs. The roughly triangular...

include sectarian identification reported 55% as Shia and 45 per cent as Sunni of the Muslim population. Prior to Islam, the inhabitants of Qatar and Bahrain...

of Shi’as and Sunnis among the Arabs, but the evidence suggests that the great majority of Iranian Arabs are Shi’ite. First, the Arabs border on a part...

of a population of 220,000, 39% were Turks, 28% Alawite Arabs, 11% Armenians, 10% Sunni Arabs, 8% other Christians and 4% were Circassians, Kurds and...

proper. As a result of their proximity to surrounding Sunni Arabs and Africans, they speak the Sunni dialect. The Shia Persians of Bahrain are a significant...

its rule were nominally Sunni Arabs. This created a significant gap in participation between Shi'a Arab and Kurdish and Sunni Arab organizations in what...

three separate countries, one for Sunni Arabs in western Iraq, one for Kurds in northern Iraq, and one for Shi'a Arabs in southern Iraq). The subject is...

only 40% of the population. They are Sunni Muslims and speak Sudanese Arabic. The great majority of the Sudanese Arabs tribes are part of larger tribal confederations:...

is a Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in Bahrain. It is spoken by Bahraini Sunni Arabs and is a dialect which is most similar to the dialect spoken in Qatar...

received enough votes to win a seat in the assembly. Low turnout amongst Sunni Arabs threatened the legitimacy of the elections, with voter turnout as low...

(2023-01-05). "The Iraq Report: Missing Sunnis an admission of 'war crimes'". The New Arab. Retrieved 2024-03-25. "2.2. Sunni Arabs". European Union Agency for Asylum...

claimed to be caliphates. Not all Muslim states have had caliphates. The Sunni branch of Islam stipulates that, as a head of state, a caliph should be...

Tikrit, Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. It is mainly inhabited by Sunni Arabs. The village is known for being the hometown and place of burial of former...

The Arab–Israeli alliance, sometimes called the Israeli–Sunni alliance, refers to an unofficial security coalition comprising Israel and various Arab countries...

The majority of Syrians are Muslims, of which the Sunnis are the most numerous (formed mostly of Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, and Circassians), followed by the...

The majority of Muslims in Israel are Sunni Arabs, with an Ahmadiyya minority. The Bedouin in Israel are also Arab Muslims, with some Bedouin clans participating...

several years. Positions of power in the country were mostly filled with Sunni Arabs, a minority that made up about a fifth of the population. In 1979, upon...