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Protesters from the Alawite religious minority demonstrate in in Latakia, Syria, two days after a bomb in an Alawite mosque in Homs killed eight people, December 28, 2025. (AP/Omar Albam)
December 28, 2025, 11:11 pm
3 dead, dozens injured in Syria as Alawites clash with pro-government groups
Violent protests erupt in coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous two days after bombing at Alawite mosque in Homs killed 8 people
By OMAR ALBAM
Druze militiamen ride a motorcycle past a destroyed military vehicle following last week's sectarian clashes in the Druze-majority town of Sweida, Syria, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
August 3, 2025, 4:33 pm
Renewed violence in Syria’s Sweida kills two as armed groups fight government forces
War monitor says Syrian security forces member killed along with a ‘local fighter’ as violence erupts again weeks after deadly sectarian strife shook the Druze region
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump wraps up a campaign rally at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 5, 2024, 1:30 am
Why Trump is being compared to the obscure biblical king Jehu on the Christian right
Some pastors are urging their followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of the monarch who violently killed the evil Jezebel
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: A relative takes a photo of his family, members of the Bnai Menashe community, leaving for Israel at Tulihal Airport in Imphal, India, December 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
January 5, 2024, 10:10 pm
Bnei Menashe community disputes Israeli reports of 7 killed in India violence
Crossed wires during a Knesset committee meeting may have led to a misunderstanding, say community leaders, stressing that their situation is dire enough without exaggerating it
By Jordyn Haime
A member of the Bnei Menashe community in northeastern India works to construct a temporary structure used in celebrating Sukkot. (Courtesy Shavei Israel via JTA)
October 6, 2023, 10:11 am
Displaced by ethnic violence, India’s Bnei Menashe Jews construct sukkahs nonetheless
As conflict in the northeastern state of Manipur enters its sixth month, a Jewish community fleeing decimated homes and burned synagogues is starting to see its exile as permanent
By Jordyn Haime
Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the media at Safra Square in Jerusalem ahead of a right-wing march on April 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 20, 2022, 10:44 pm
Shin Bet said to warn allowing Ben Gvir at Damascus Gate would start a Gaza War
During security assessment on whether to bar firebrand MK from flashpoint, officials reportedly say rising tensions in Jerusalem could spill over like they did last year
By ToI Staff
Egyptian Coptic Christian priests pray during the Easter Eve service at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
April 9, 2022, 7:57 am
Coptic priest dies after he was stabbed on Egyptian seaside promenade
Prominent Sunni leader Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb condemns attack, saying such acts ‘might instigate religious wars’; Copts believed to be among world’s oldest Christian communities
By AP
An employee looks through an office window riddled with bullet holes after the deadly clashes that erupted a week earlier along a former 1975-90 civil war front-line between Muslim Shiite and Christian areas, in Ain el-Rumaneh neighborhood, Beirut, Lebanon, October 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
October 20, 2021, 6:00 pm
Beirut clashes fire up sectarian anger along 1975-90 civil war lines
Memories of the years-long conflict and sectarian passions triggered by last week’s deadly scenes of gunmen in streets and schoolchildren ducking under desks
By Sarah El Deeb
Supporters of the Shi'ite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during yesterday clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, on Friday, October 15, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
October 16, 2021, 4:23 pm
Beirut street battles may spell even darker times
This week’s violence highlights willingness by members of Lebanon’s ruling class to fight for political survival at any cost
By Zeina Karam
File: Slain Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah (Youtube screenshot)
April 7, 2016, 8:27 am
Taxi driver admits killing Scottish Muslim over beliefs
Shopkeeper Asad Shah was stabbed to death due to his Ahmadi faith, hours after wishing Christians a ‘very happy Easter’
By Sue Surkes
Supporters of the Shiite Houthi movement shout anti-Saudi slogans during a demonstration in Sana'a on April 10, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Huwais)
April 11, 2015, 10:28 am
In Mideast, religious wars often a front for political rivalries
Regional opponents are finding sectarianism to be a useful tool, but experts warn of unintended consequences
By Sara Hussein
A man looks at the site of a car-bomb attack in the Shula neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on October 12, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Karim Kadim)
March 1, 2015, 8:38 pm
UN says Iraq death toll at least 1,100 in February
Sectarian violence explodes across region, with civilians accounting for more than half of all casualties
By Sinan Salaheddin
Lebanese Army soldiers deploy after overnight clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 22, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla, File)
March 23, 2014, 10:13 am
Hezbollah battles Salafists overnight in Beirut
Lebanese government sends in troops to restore order after worst sectarian fighting in years
By AP
January 23, 2014, 10:39 pm
UN: Myanmar Buddhists kill more than 40 Muslims
Mob armed with machetes hunts down villagers in a remote province
By Robin McDowell
Lebanese Army soldiers at the site of a car bomb explosion outside the Salam Mosque, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on August 24, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)
December 20, 2013, 10:55 am
Lebanese Army on high alert at border with Syria
Troops receive intelligence tip on rebel movements; Human Rights Watch urges Beirut to rein in rising sectarian tensions
By AP and ToI Staff
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