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...King Abdullah, moreover, is a moderate leader in a region where mainstream Sunni leadership has almost died out....
...Sectarian tensions have long been part of the backdrop of the civil war because much of Syria’s ruling circle is Alawite in a country that is majority Sunni Muslim....
...criticism of Vladimir Putin, Mr Obama said that the Russian leader was turning his country into an enemy of the majority of Syrians who were rejecting the regime of Bashar al-Assad, and to much of the Sunni...
...Portraying the fight in Yemen as part of a wider Sunni-Shia confrontation could, he argues, become a self-fulfilling prophecy....
...Abu Faisal asked him to remember the protests at Aleppo university, when tens of thousands risked their lives for what seemed a noble cause. “We had a higher goal....
...Yet the position of the king and his kingdom, a Sunni moderate ruling a relative oasis of stability in a region on fire, is probably stronger than it seems....
...For Nato and the west, Afghanistan was supposed to be the “good war”, a label that suggested a clear and noble purpose and distinguished it from the futile chaos of Iraq....
...Gulf unity, a noble aim, should surely be preceded by consensus over the future of governance and how the states can meet the needs of their bulging youth populations....
...The innovations which define our time, whether it was the medical collaboration which defeated SARS, the intelligence collaboration between Sunni tribal chiefs and the US military which made a success of...
...NS: I don’t believe in wahabis and shias and sunnis....
...A rare talent – and a noble goal for us all in 2008. Lionel Barber is editor of the FT...
...“You will remain in the consciousness of the noble and free,” it says....
...That essay, “The Unipolar World”, became a guiding text for neo-conservatives and liberal hawks who wanted an interventionist US to exercise that power, which they saw as inherently noble – and in America...
...Will the extra American troops concentrate on fighting the Sunni insurgents or the Shia militias – or will they take on both groups simultaneously?...
...The goal of spreading democracy remains a noble one....
...France’s “ancient, aristocratic tradition made beauty something noble, to be sought after. West End theatre had a tame middle-class angle on what was genteel and nice....
...These young Americans understand that our cause in Iraq is noble and necessary – and that the advance of freedom is the calling of our time....
...For instance, Sahib, the wrestling coach, was a Sunni, and he was killed in a predominately Shia part of Baghdad....
...He concludes by saying the continuing war is a noble enterprise that the US must complete....
...Terrorism adds another blatant crime to its record by killing this noble man,” Hussein al-Sadr, a Shi’ite cleric and member of parliament, told the house....
...Democracy is not the answer for Sunnis fighting to regain a monopoly on power in Iraq....
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