that "80% of Iraq's sectarian violence occurs within 30 miles (48 km) of the capital. This violence is splitting Baghdad into sectarian enclaves, and...
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Sectarian violence in Iraq developed as a result of rising sectarian tensions between the different religious and ethnic groups of Iraq, most notably...
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Sectarian violence or sectarian strife is a form of communal violence which is inspired by sectarianism, that is, discrimination, hatred or prejudice...
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Finer, Jonathan; Sebti, Bassam (24 February 2006). "Sectarian Violence Kills Over 100 in Iraq". The Washington Post. "Saudi grand mufti says suicide...
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Sectarian violence in Pakistan refers to violence directed against people and places in Pakistan motivated by antagonism toward the target's religious...
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sectarian lines between Shias and Sunnis. In 2011, the MNF–I withdrew from Iraq, leading to renewed sectarian violence and enabling the emergence of the Islamic...
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phrased the sectarian violence in the Middle East as "rooted in conflicts that dated back millennia", but many pointed out that some sectarian tensions don't...
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post-invasion Iraqi reconstruction efforts, as the federal government tried to establish itself in the country. The civil war and sectarian violence ended in mid-2008...
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Civil War is an intensely sectarian war. However, the initial phases of the uprising in 2011 featured a broad, cross-sectarian opposition to the rule of...
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Army–Al-Qaeda conflict Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013), an escalation of insurgent and sectarian violence after the U.S. withdrew War in Iraq (2013–2017), a war...
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low-level sectarian violence among Iraq's religious groups. The insurgency was a direct continuation of events following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003...
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mainly between sectarian militant groups and Iraqi forces and their respective allies Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013), the surge in violence involving the...
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sectarian and anti-government insurgency swept Iraq, causing thousands of casualties. Increasing violence led to another outbreak of war in Iraq in 2013...
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during the 2003–2011 occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces which saw major combat activity and sectarian violence from early 2003 into the fall...
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that data, U.S. officials were able to boast that deaths from sectarian violence in the Iraqi capital had declined by more than 52 percent between July and...
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Islamic State (redirect from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria)
known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and by...
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trend in civilian deaths and ethno-sectarian violence since December 2006. By late 2007, as the US troop surge began to wind down, violence in Iraq had...
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place throughout central and southern Iraq, where there is a Shia Arab majority. In April 2013, sectarian violence escalated after the 2013 Hawija clashes...
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Iraqi refugees resettled by the UNHCR had been accommodated in EU nations, primarily Sweden and the Netherlands. Amidst escalating sectarian violence...
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2006 al-Askari mosque bombing (category Shia–Sunni sectarian violence)
day alone. Sectarian violence between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims had already been prevalent since the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency in 2003, but...
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killed in Iraq in March, according to government figures. At least 126 Iraqis were killed in April, while 132 Iraqis were killed in sectarian violence in Iraq...
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result, over 700 Iraqi civilians died in the month. The beginning of 2006 was marked by government creation talks, growing sectarian violence, and continuous...
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Shia–Sunni relations (redirect from Sunni persecution in Iran)
years have witnessed the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, as well as sectarian violence from Pakistan to Yemen, which became a major element of friction throughout...
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nuclear program. In 2007, Jafarzadeh claimed that Iran's government had sharply increased its efforts to fan sectarian violence in Iraq, easily transferring...
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Dujail massacre (category Violence against Shia Muslims in Iraq)
killing of Shiite rebels by the Ba'athist Iraqi government on 8 July 1982 in Dujail, Iraq. The massacre was committed in retaliation to an earlier assassination...
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supporting Iran's activities in Iraq." He argued that Coalition and Iraqi operations had drastically reduced ethno-sectarian violence in the country, though he...
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2006 (redirect from Death in 2006)
Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, causes the escalation of sectarian violence in Iraq into a...
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deemed Shias as infidels. Commenting on Shias in 2007 (during height of Shia Sunni sectarian violence in Iraq), Ibn Jibrin said: "Some people say that the...
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Nouri al-Maliki (category Anti-Zionism in Iraq)
local Iraqis for empowering Shia militias, for his close ties with Iranian government/military officials, and for fuelling Iraqi sectarian violence by favouring...
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Now a Civil War in Iraq". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 1 January 2022. "'1,300 dead' in Iraq sectarian violence | Iraq". The Guardian...
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