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Topic: sectarian violence

May 21, 2013
3:14 pm

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq spirals downward

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki regarded by Sunni observers as prime culprit

By Elhanan Miller

May 21, 2013
9:50 am

Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP/ Hadi Mizban)

Iraq attacks raise concerns of Syrian spillover

Sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites may be behind dozens of car bombings that killed 95 people

By Sinan Salaheddin

May 4, 2013
11:08 am

Syrian army soldiers, seen in the background, standing in front of dead bodies at Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria (photo credit: AP Photo/The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad)

Hundreds flee Syrian city after reported massacre

Carnage, raids by Assad troops in Sunni neighborhood in Banias prompt families to leave Alawite area

May 4, 2013
9:20 am

In this citizen journalism image released on Thursday, May 2, 2013 by a group that calls itself The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad, a Syrian man, center, identifies dead bodies who were killed according to activists by Syrian forces loyal to Bashar Assad, in Bayda village, outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria. (Photo credit: AP/The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad)

‘Images of Sabra and Shatila in Syria’

From the web Lebanon’s Daily Star says scene in Sunni town where at least 50 were killed by regime troops reminiscent of famous 1982 Lebanon massacre

April 9, 2013
8:09 pm

Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope, Tawadros II (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Egypt’s Coptic pope blasts Morsi

Following recent sectarian violence, Tawadros II says that Egypt’s president promised to protect Copts ‘but in reality he did not’

By Hamza Hendawi

March 29, 2013
7:10 pm

The scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 29 (photo credit: AP/Karim Kadim)

Car bombings kill at least 23 in Iraq

Attacks target five Shiite mosques as worshippers emerge from Friday prayers

December 17, 2012
8:08 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters during a visit to Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, near the Syrian border, on Friday December 7. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

UN chief alarmed by escalating violence in Syria

From the web Ban Ki-moon says targeting of civilians by both rebels and regime constitutes war crime

December 5, 2012
4:18 pm

Illustrative photo of Lebanese Army soldiers patrolling during October clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime, in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

Sides in Lebanese sectarian clashes mirror Syrian factions

In latest flare-up, at least five killed and over 45 wounded in two days of fighting in Tripoli

December 1, 2012
3:13 am

Syrian children look through their car window as they cross into Lebanon with their families at the border crossing, in Masnaa, eastern Lebanon, on Friday. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

War rips apart families, neighbors in Syria

Brothers find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the bloody civil war

By Zeina Karam

December 1, 2012
12:55 am

A destroyed building in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday after airstrikes targeted the area. (photo credit: AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Sunni Lebanese gunmen fighting with anti-Assad rebels killed inside Syria

20 fighters die near the Syrian-Lebanese border, stoking sectarian tensions

November 1, 2012
1:57 am

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, upon their arrival for a dinner, Damascus, 2010 (photo credit: AP Photo/SANA)

‘Axis of Resistance’ is fraying at the seams, say Mideast experts

Syrian civil war puts anti-US alliance of Tehran, Damascus and terror groups on the defensive

By Bassem Mroue

October 22, 2012
12:38 pm

A bus pushes a garbage container used as a roadblock by Sunni protesters after overnight clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon on Monday. (photo credit/Hussein Malla/AP)

Lebanon launches major security campaign to calm sectarian violence

At least two people killed overnight as demonstrations against intelligence chief’s assassination continue

By Bassem Mroue

October 22, 2012
7:56 am

Lebanese protesters are enveloped in tear gas as they pull a barbed-wire barrier during clashes after the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan who was assassinated on Friday by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Oct. 21 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Two killed in sectarian clashes in Lebanon

Sunni and Shiite gunmen exchange fire in Beirut and Tripoli following Friday assassination of top intelligence official

September 30, 2012
6:12 pm

Iraqis stand in rubble at the scene of a car bomb attack in the town of Taji, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 30 (photo credit: AP/Hadi Mizban)

32 killed in sectarian terrorist attacks around Iraq

Bombings follow massive prison break; ‘Al-Qaeda leaders have no intention of leaving this country or letting Iraqis live in peace,’ says Shiite lawmaker

By Brian Murphy and Nasser Karimi

September 30, 2012
11:32 am

A Free Syrian Army Soldier takes his position in Aleppo, September 24 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Retrieving Golan a key priority for Syrians, says Islamist preacher who fled Assad

To prevail over Damascus, rebels need more weapons, says Youssef Zoabi, who took refuge in Jordan last year. ‘Once we’ve won, we want an Islamist regime’

By Elhanan Miller

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