Iraq's Sunni Leaders End Their Boycott January 29, 2012, 10:05 pm In a development in Iraq's political crisis, the country's Sunni leaders said on Sunday that they would end their boycott of Parliament. In an article in Monday's Times, Tim Arango reports on the decision by members of the Iraqiya coalition, a largely Sunni-backed group of lawmakers. He writes: The move does not signal the end of Iraq's political crisis, which erupted days after the withdrawal of the American military last month, when Iraqiya announced its boycott to protest what it saw as moves by the Shiite-dominated government to sideline Sunnis from power. But the group's decision eases tensions and paves the way for the political leadership to hold a national summit meeting to discuss reconciliation among Iraq's three main ethnic factions: Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.