Examples of using "Sunnites" in a sentence and their english translations:
deliberately sparking a Sunni-Shia civil war.
Thousands of Sunni Iraqi soldiers, angry and unemployed, join the insurgency.
Jihadist groups, also Sunni, see this as a repeat of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,
Many Sunnis are tired of their Shia-dominated and increasingly authoritarian government,
But in 2006, Iraq's Sunnis rise up against Zarqawi, and the US kills him in an air strike.
Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.