Sectarian Violence

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  How Sectarian Violence Drove Syria's Druze From Unity To Uprising

  Clashes broke out last week that were sparked by tit-for-tat kidnappings between armed Bedouin clans and fighters with the Druze religious minority. The violence killed hundreds of people and threatened to unravel Syria's fragile postwar transition.

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  38 Killed, Dozen Injured In Latest Attack On Shia Muslims In Pakistan

  At least 38 people have died in Pakistan's restive northwest province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa after gunmen fired indiscriminately in two separate incidents of sectarian violence targeting Shia Muslims.

• UN Mulls Drone Use to Monitor Central Africa Conflict

  The United Nations is considering the use of unarmed drones to monitor sectarian violence in the Central African Republic, a UN official said Saturday, ahead of the deployment in September of 12,000 peacekeepers in the restive nation.

• Mosque, orphanage burned in new Myanmar violence

  Hundreds of Buddhist men on motorcycles waved iron rods and bamboo poles and threw rocks in a northeastern Myanmar town on Wednesday, a day after a mosque and a Muslim orphanage were torched in a new wave of violence targeting the religious minority. Residents said a movie theater was burned as the mob sped around the town.

• Muslims and Buddhists clash in northern Myanmar

  Muslims and Buddhists clashed in Myanmar's northern city of Lashio on Tuesday, witnesses said, as a wave of sectarian violence reached a mountainous region near China's border.

• 20 killed in sectarian violence in Nigeria: aid worker

  At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria's Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker has told AFP.

• Muslim, Buddhist mob violence threatens new Myanmar image

  Northwest Myanmar was tense on Monday after sectarian violence engulfed its largest city at the weekend, with Reuters witnessing rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torching houses and police firing into the air to disperse crowds.

• Myanmar state media warns of sectarian 'anarchy'

  Myanmar state media warned on Sunday of "anarchy" and a spiral of retaliation after a spate of deadly sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims that threatens to overshadow reforms in the nation.

• Gunmen open fire on bus in Pakistan, 18 killed

  Gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in the northern Pakistani district of Kohistan in an apparent sectarian attack on Tuesday, killing 18 people, police officials said.

• Sectarian violence spreads in Nigeria, 67 dead

  At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in northeast Nigeria overnight, officials said Saturday, as frightened mourners left their homes to begin burying their dead.

• Gunmen kill 11 Shias in sectarian violence in Pakistan

  Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying minority Shiite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing 11 of them in a sectarian attack, police said.

• 1,500-strong mob kills 3 in sectarian violence

  About 1,500 people stormed a house over the weekend to stop 20 Ahmadiyah followers from worshipping. The mob killed three men and badly wounded six others, while destroying the house and setting several cars and bikes on fire. Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered an investigation into the attack on members of the minority...