There is deep apprehension that the talks failing, or not taking place, would accelerate the spread of strife from Syria into neighbouring countries.
At last week's summit of the six-state Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), Salman said "foreign powers" - a reference to Iran - were trying to "impose their authority…and spread sectarian strife".
-- Muslim countries should play lead role in Iraq And help solve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute -- 2. (C) Musharraf noted that he and many Middle Eastern leaders were worried that a premature pull-out of U.S. and coalition forces from Iraq would spread sectarian strife throughout the Gulf region.
Wild rumours spread, of civil strife and bloodshed.
Neighboring Jordan and Iraq are accepting refugees in an attempt to contain the spread of civil strife while simultaneously avoiding direct involvement. .
The labor strife spreading through China's factory cities has clearly frazzled the government.
He stated first and second that "American intervention would diminish Iran's influence in the Arab world" and that "a more muscular American policy could keep the conflict from spreading" with "sectarian strife in Lebanon and Iraq".
In his first executive order, he tried to deploy the army against the secessionists of the coasts and the Republic of Chicagoland, to reunite a nation "bleeding from its west, its east, its... wherever," but he was forced to concentrate military resources on the strife spreading throughout Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Syria's Kurdish minority in the north-east, always susceptible to calls for dissent, has held back, but could join the fray if the protests spread.Fear of sectarian strife lurks under Syria's surface.
Fears are rising that Ivorian strife could spread in the same way that trouble in Sierra Leone and Liberia oozed across borders in the 1990s.In Toe Town, a dusty one-street border spot in eastern Liberia, lorries are parked up, while female hangers-on loll listlessly in the heat.
