American officials had been hoping that Sunni Muslims would get some role in Iraq's new government.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union had invaded and occupied Afghanistan, energizing many young Sunni Muslims.
Most Saudis are Sunni Muslims, and Sunni Islam is the only allowed religion in the country.
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It's home to a volatile mixture of Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Kurds, even Christians.
Under Saddam Hussein, the minority Sunni Muslims wielded power, often through violence against Shiites and Kurds.
Iraqi Shiites were suppressed under the Hussein regime, which favored the country's minority Sunni Muslims.
Across the country, tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims have been complaining of alleged discrimination.
Most Saudis are Sunni Muslims, the same as the Syrian majority who kicked off the uprising.
For most Sunni Muslims around the world, including in Iraq, the first day of Ramadan was Friday.
Police said the bodies of 15 men found Sunday are believed to be those of Sunni Muslims.
Before the start of the conflict, Qusayr was home to about 60, 000 people, mostly Sunni Muslims and Christians.
Turkish officials have moved some Syrian refugees, most of them Sunni Muslims, away from Alawite-inhabited areas in Hatay.
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Sunni Muslims, who are over-represented in government but vastly outnumbered by the Shia, fear losing their traditional dominance.
Some Sunni Muslims across the country are boycotting the whole thing, as they are threatening to in Iraq.
Most people in Syria are Sunni Muslims, though al-Assad and many leaders in his government are Alawite and Shiite.
The Tsarnaev brothers came from Chechnya, a subject republic of the Russian Federation whose population consists mostly of Sunni Muslims.
Mostly Sunni Muslims live in the neighborhood, which is surrounded by walls except for one checkpoint staffed by Iraqi soldiers.
The kidnappings are the latest of several recent attacks on Awakening Councils which are often made up of Sunni Muslims.
Sectarian tensions have mounted as the fighting continues, with Sunni Muslims largely supporting the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite-led regime.
For the past two months, Sunni Muslims have been protesting what they describe as unfair treatment by the country's Shiite-led government.
Sunni Muslims, an oppressed majority, make up seventy-five per cent, with the rest a mixture of Kurds, Christians, and smaller ethnic groups.
It also has a majority population of Shia Muslims in a nation ruled by Sunni Muslims for the last 80 years.
But, he said, democracy there is progressing, with the rule of law beginning to take root and increasingly more Sunni Muslims participating in the process.
Iraq's Awakening Councils, drawn from among the country's Sunni Muslims, have been seen as a key factor in reducing violence across the country since 2006.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi branch of the al-Qaeda network has called on Sunni Muslims to escalate attacks on US troops in the country during the month.
Sunni Muslims dominate rebel ranks, while the Assad regime is composed mostly of Alawites, an offshoot Shiite group to which the president and his family belong.
Its new plan to expand its appeal beyond its own Shia people to Sunni Muslims and Christian Lebanese depends on it forming a non-sectarian resistance group.
After 17 months of slaughter, some members of the armed opposition, which consists largely of Sunni Muslims, are demanding revenge against what they call an Alawite regime.
Iraq and Iran are culturally linked because their populations are predominantly Shiite Muslims, as opposed to Sunni Muslims who make up the majority of most Arab countries.
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