Sentence examples for different sectarian from inspiring English sources

This part of Syria is very much like Lebanon, with villages with different sectarian allegiances – Sunni, Christian, Alawite – turning into armed camps.

While there are no official statistics, sociologists estimate that nearly a third of Iraqi marriages are unions between members of different sectarian or ethnic communities.

The recent attacks — scattered across Iraq and directed at different sectarian groups — suggest that Iraq's security forces are struggling to contain violence in the wake of the American withdrawal, even though security over all remains relatively stable.

While U.S. officials and the mainstream media have generally billed this law as a measure that will equitably distribute Iraq's massive oil revenues -- projected to reach $31 billion this year -- between the country's different sectarian groups, this is far from a complete or accurate picture of its contents.

But George Fernandes, minister of defense, defended the government, describing the violence as no different than sectarian riots that occurred during the 46 years the Congress Party ruled India.

It triggered a geopolitical struggle between Iran, on the one hand, and Saudi and the Gulf States and Turkey, on the other, which led to their supporting different extreme sectarian actors across the region, turning local grievances over poor governance into regional proxy wars.

Regionalising Iraq into different ethno-sectarian regions has been proposed in the past.

The destruction of the Shia mosque is indicative of the harm done to the ties between different ethnic and sectarian groups in Jalawla; a side effect of the war being fought against Isis across both Iraq and Syria.

Indeed, the troubles he is hoping to solve are those that stymied three previous ambassadors and President George W. Bush: political reconciliation between different ethnic and sectarian groups; a hydrocarbon law that will provide revenue to all of Iraq; and, tied to both knotty problems, a resolution of the disputed border between the Kurdish region and the rest of Iraq.

"But the reconstruction, the disarming of the militias, the reconstituting of trust between the different ethnic and sectarian groups — all that is going to take a very long time, and I think it would be foolish to assume that we know what Syria will look like".

Though they did not suggest a specific date by which the troops should go, the agreement will focus minds, in both Baghdad and Washington, on the endgame for foreign forces in Iraq.The Cairo conference, aimed at reconciliation between Iraq's different ethnic and sectarian groups, took place under the auspices of the Arab League.