Shiite-Sunni conflict rises in Pakistan
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Attacks on Pakistan's Shiites echo rising sectarian strife in the Mideast.
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Established Shiite parties and upstarts are feuding, and their leading cleric is trying to pull them together before the election.
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BAGHDAD - When guards in the holy city of Karbala waved a Shi'ite religious leader's convoy through a security cordon and into the Imam Hussein shrine last week, they incensed a crowd of rival militia men and sparked fighting that claimed the lives of at least 50 and left parts of the city smoldering.
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Clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims over a shrine in north-west Pakistan kill at least 17, officials say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 20 - Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in several major cities, including Baghdad, Ramadi
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Sunni-Shi'ite tensions have a long history in Lebanon, but the latest upsurge is fueled by a battle for regional supremacy between powers thousands of miles from Beirut
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67 people are dead after separate suicide car bombings in the cities of Najaf and Karbala. Analysts say the bombers could be attempting to spark a civil war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, since a large majority of Shiites populate the two holy cities.
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BAGHDAD -- Top US generals warned yesterday that violence will increase in Baghdad during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and said Al Qaeda in Iraq already has intensified its assaults against American troops.
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MULTAN, Pakistan A car bomb ripped through a prayer gathering of Sunni Muslim radicals in central Pakistan on Thursday, killing 41 people and wounding more than 100 as the country grappled with a new surge of sectarian violence.
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Violence in Iraq rose across the board this fall to the highest levels on record, fueled by the growth of Shiite militia that have replaced al-Qaeda as the most dangerous force propelling the nation toward civil war, according to a new Pentagon report released this afternoon.
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Seventeen people have been killed during fighting between Sunni and Shiite tribesmen over ownership of a shrine in northwest Pakistan.
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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked Islamabad early on Saturday as Islamist students holed up in a mosque battled Pakistani security forces after the militants' leader defied government demands to surrender.
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An escalating political rift among Iraq&#39;s main religious groups and continued violence throughout the country are threatening parliamentary elections set for January.
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Thousands of Sunni Muslim radicals protested in a central Pakistani on city on Friday and vowed revenge for a bomb attack on a religious rally that killed 42 people
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Violence flared in Iraq&#39;s restless Sunni Triangle yesterday when insurgents stormed two police stations in a brazen attempt to intimidate Sunni voters a day after Osama bin Laden
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim  cleric and an associate were shot dead in southern Pakistan on  Saturday, the latest attack in religious violence that has  already killed more than 70 people this month.
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Until recently, the struggle over Iraq&#39;s election date has divided along sectarian lines. Sunnis, whose religious authorities