Sentence examples for sectarian battles from inspiring English sources

That's not about fighting sectarian battles or settling political scores.

One of them is said to have fought in ugly sectarian battles in southern Baghdad.

CAIRO — The telltale signs in post-revolutionary Egypt are not just the riots and rapes, the mega-traffic snarls and sectarian battles.

He studied at a mosque in Pakistan but became disillusioned with Islam after learning about the sectarian battles after the death of Muhammad.

A return to the sectarian battles of 1972 onward is still a possibility -- pessimistically, until the current generation of die-hards passes on.

(More recent events, such as the July, 2006, war between Israel and Hezbollah and the brief period of sectarian battles in Beirut in 2008, have borne out their skepticism).

Or, as another resident put it, "They are turning this into a sectarian battle".

Here among the rolling hills of the border, Sunnis say they are gathering weapons for a wider sectarian battle.

Ultimately, he envisages a new geopolitical equilibrium, one less turbulent than the current landscape of civil war, terror, and sectarian battle.

Yet that was incidental to the uprising starting in March 2011, which was mainly about freedom.Mr Assad's regime worked hard not just to crush the revolt but to turn it into a sectarian battle.

Like Jabhat al-Nusra, it wants to impose a strict Islamist state and sees the fight in Syria as a sectarian battle of Sunni Muslims versus Alawites, the esoteric Shia offshoot to which the Assads belong.