Sunni Islam in Iraq (Arabic: الإسلام السني في العراق) is the second-largest sect of Islam in Iraq after Shia Islam. The majority of Iraqi Sunni Muslims...

Muhammad in 632, a group of Muslims (who would come to be known as the Sunnis) believed that Muhammad's successor as caliph of the Islamic community...

kidnappings and attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops. Although it carries an Islamic title, the group combines Sunni Islamism with Iraqi nationalism, and has been labelled...

distinct traditions: Shia Islam (55-60%) and Sunni Islam (35-40%). Iraq is home to many religious cities important for both Shia and Sunni Muslims. Baghdad was...

and Sunnis in Iraq, which led to the Iraqi civil war and the 2013–2017 war, which involved the Islamic State terror group. After being named caliph in 657...

location for Sunnis. Smaller sects of Islam exist in the country, such as the small Shia Shaykhist community concentrated in Basra and Karbala. Iraqi Arabs are...

(Arabic: إقليم الأنبار), is a proposed federal area that would include Iraq's Sunni-majority provinces, such as Anbar, Diyala, Saladin, Nineveh, and the...

populace, seeking to create a demographic environment in which Shia Islam would replace Sunni Islam as the nation's religious majority. Over the course...

school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence. The major Sunni madhāhib are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali. They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries...

The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought...