Sentence examples for sectarian forces from inspiring English sources

Syria is drawing in sectarian forces from its neighbors, and threatening to spill its conflict into a wider conflagration.

Mr. Phillips recalled that sectarian forces in Iraq had reportedly put a bounty on Mr. Sanchez's head.

But Lebanon's weak government, ineffective military and combustible mix of political and sectarian forces with foreign paymasters has often made it an arena for geopolitical vendettas.

These people are being killed by sectarian forces that want to wreck the prospects of the country getting on its feet.

But a close look at three kinds of neighborhoods — Sunni, Shiite and mixed — indicates that while there is certainly momentum, it is still largely driven by the sectarian forces in Iraq, and moving according to their rules.

An impressive show of anti-occupation unity is developing fast, after being weakened by the sectarian forces that the occupation itself has strengthened and nourished, as Muntadhar himself used to stress.

"In Iraq the failures of covert intelligence were compounded by the absence of political intelligence: a comprehensive lack of the understanding of sectarian forces and fault lines present across the country," he disclosed recently.

The defeat of Isis requires the enlistment of Sunni Arab forces, and that can only happen if they are confident that Isis will not be replaced by radical sectarian forces of the Assad regime or Iran, which is in control of the Assad regime and which has deployed tens of thousands of Shi'a jihadists into Syria.