Sentence examples for sectarian confrontations from inspiring English sources
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Bombings in Shiite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people on Wednesday, after weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to set off sectarian confrontations.
And on Wednesday, bombings in Shiite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people, after weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents who are determined to set off sectarian confrontations, Reuters reported.
And to these sectarian confrontations must be added a further 1,000 or so racist incidents of the type which in June caused scores of Romanians to flee from Belfast.
Sectarian confrontations will be unavoidable where there are mixed populations, such as in and around Baghdad, with its seven million people.
So those who did it are professional criminals, professional terrorists, because they wanted by all means to instigate, to ignite a sectarian confrontation in the area….
Those who triggered this and ignited this massacre were seeking to ignite a confessional and a sectarian confrontation between the populations of that area.
"I'm so worried that the country might be dragged toward a sectarian confrontation," said Aqsam Naisi, an Alawite lawyer and human rights activist in Damascus.
Another rising threat is the growth of an increasingly violent and sectarian confrontation between two of Yemen's largest political groups.
Isis has launched a series of deadly attacks inside the kingdom in recent months, aiming to stir sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula and bring about the overthrow of Gulf states' ruling dynasties.
Shiite clerics called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms against advancing Sunni insurgents inspired by al-Qaeda, drawing the battle lines for a major sectarian confrontation in the fracturing state.
Islamic State is bitterly hostile towards Gulf Arab monarchies and is seen to be trying to stoke Sunni-Shia sectarian confrontation within Arabian peninsula states to destabilise and ultimately overthrow their dynasties.
