sunniest


A chronology of key events

The man accused of attempted car bombings in London and at Glasgow outlines political views on his native Iraq.

An Iraqi takeover of payments to anti-al-Qaeda Sunni fighters is being hailed as a success, reports the BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad.

Iraqi authorities formally re-open a key Baghdad bridge linking Shia and Sunni neighbourhoods on either side of the Tigris.

Deadly multiple bombings in Iraq raise concerns that al-Qaeda militants are recovering in strength, says the BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad

A bomb hits a Baghdad house belonging to a Shia family who had recently returned to their home in a mostly Sunni area, police say.

Four people have been killed by twin bombs at a checkpoint in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.

Iraq's largest Sunni party freezes contacts with US civilian and military personnel in protest at a shooting in Fallujah.

Iraqi forces have been handed control of security in the central province of Babil by the US military.

The US says Iraq remains locked in a communal struggle, despite dramatic security improvements.

Hugh Sykes in Baghdad meets leaders of the Awakening Councils, former insurgents who have turned al-Qaeda extremists.

The BBC News website looks at the key questions surrounding Iraq's Sunni Awakening Councils, one of the main movers behind the current reduction in violence across Iraq.

The US military says it will hand responsibility for paying members of Sunni Arab groups fighting al-Qaeda to the Iraqi government.

This August saw the lowest amount of sunshine for the month since records began in 1929, the Met Office confirms.

The US military transfers control of Anbar province, once the centre of Iraq's Sunni insurgency, to the Iraqi government.

The BBC's Crispin Thorold meets some of the Sunni militiamen at the heart of Iraq's new security policy.

One of the most northerly places in Britain has been the sunniest in the UK this month.

A suicide bomber kills at least 25 people in an attack in Baghdad's western Abu Ghraib district, police say.

US-led forces make 11 arrests in a continuing campaign aimed at disrupting Sunni militants linked to al-Qaeda, the US military says.

A suicide bomber kills at least 15 people, including an anti-al-Qaeda leader, in a mainly Sunni part of Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

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