Sentence examples for sectarian fight from inspiring English sources
But the Iranians have tricky relations with Muqtada al-Sadr, the most belligerent of Iraq's Shia leaders, and shrink from picking a sectarian fight with Sunni fanatics.
I realized that a sectarian fight was starting to play out in November 2003, but I had no idea how far it would go.
Mr. Morsi's speech, which was organized by Sunni clerics, seemed likely to satisfy Sunni conservatives throughout the region, who have increasingly framed the war in Syria as a sectarian fight against Shiites, especially Hezbollah.
The Shiite-dominated central government, led by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, is battling an increasingly deadly Sunni insurgency that is morphing into a bloody sectarian fight reminiscent of the country's civil war of several years ago.
The international police organization Interpol stepped squarely into a bitter political and sectarian fight when it responded to a request for help from Iraq to arrest the country's fugitive Sunni vice president on charges that he ran death squads inside Iraq.
BAGHDAD — The international police organization Interpol stepped squarely into a bitter political and sectarian fight on Tuesday when it responded to a request for help from Iraq to arrest the country's fugitive Sunni vice president on charges that he ran death squads inside Iraq.
Second, we must create broad coalitions that avoid the sectarian fights of the past.
The Saudis are right to be worried about the outcome of sectarian fights in Lebanon and Bahrain, but in Syria it is Iran that stands to lose.
"Oh, this is a famous egg!" he said laughing as he flipped through his account, pointing out how they try to provoke factional or sectarian fights.
The deep change that Pope Shenouda imposed on the post was how wise he was in dealing with explosive cases concerning Christian-Muslim sectarian fights — how wise he was in dealing with the state and the administration".
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.
