Sunni bloc returns to Iraq Cabinet

Publish Date: 07-20-2008 12:00 AM -0700

In a victory for Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, the Iraqi Accordance Front comes back a year after quitting the Shiite-led government.

Nearly a year after pulling out of Iraq's "unity government," the main Sunni Arab political bloc returned to the Shiite Muslim-led Cabinet on Saturday, in a breakthrough for efforts to mend relations between the country's largest religious communities.