However , the power vacuum following Saddam 's demise and the mismanagement of the occupation led to Causation widespread Dispersal sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis , as well as a lengthy insurgency against U.S. and coalition forces .

The al-Maliki government enacted Action policies that were widely seen as having the effect of alienating the country 's Sunni minority and worsening sectarian tensions .

The government accused Judgment_communication protesters of attacking Attack the security forces Causation , 50 of whom sustained injuries Bodily_harm , and insisted Statement that action had been necessary to pull Motion Bahrain back from the `` brink of a sectarian abyss '' .

Gunmen broke Bodily_harm into their house at night and shot Use_firearm all eight males inside , in an apparent sectarian attack Attack .

A truce Process_end ended Process_end the war Military_operation in most of Ireland ; but a sectarian conflict Violence in Belfast , and fighting Hostile_encounter in border areas , continued .

However , although highly touted at the time of its introduction , the plan failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale security in the capital as the high level of violence Violence continued with a spate of major bombings ( at least four such attacks Attack with 40+ deaths each occurred Coming_to_be in a one-week period ) and sectarian killings throughout June and July .

Samarra was the site of the bombing Attack of the revered Al-Askari Shiite Shrine on 22 February 2006 , that set off Damaging a wave of sectarian killing Killing that claimed Statement almost 500 lives .

As all of those killed Killing were Protestant , some interpreted Statement the bombing as a sectarian attack against their community .

By September , sectarian clashes Hostile_encounter and bloodshed in Homs between Alawites and Sunnis played Competition a larger role in Homs than in the rest of Syria .

Nevertheless , a new wave of sectarian violence Violence started Process_start in Lebanon during the first decade of May 2008 .

The events of the Second Fitna intensified Cause_change_of_strength sectarian tendencies in Islam and various doctrines were developed Coming_to_be within what would later become the Sunni and Shi ' a sects of Islam .

Encouraged Influence by Chetnik propaganda against Croats and Bosnian Muslims and repelled Defending by the sectarian left-wing policies and actions of the communists , many Serb peasant fighters were swayed Convincing to the Chetnik cause .

The riots Violence started Process_start came Causation after weeks of sectarian disputes including a gang rape Committing_crime and murder Killing of a Rakhine woman by Rohingya Muslims .

All the dead Death and missing were Protestants , which has led to Causation the killings Killing being described Statement as sectarian .

Some historians have claimed Statement there were sectarian motives ; others claim Statement that those killed were targeted Aiming only because they were suspected Suspicion of having been informers during the Anglo-Irish War Hostile_encounter , and argue Protest that the dead were associated Collaboration with the so-called `` Murragh Loyalist Action Group '' , and that their names may have appeared in captured British military intelligence files which listed Writing `` helpful citizens '' during the Anglo-Irish War Hostile_encounter ( 1919–1921 ) ,

The conflict Hostile_encounter in north-east Ulster had a sectarian aspect .

They attacked Attack Catholics in reprisal for IRA actions , and in Belfast a sectarian conflict Hostile_encounter raged in which almost 500 were killed Killing , most of them Catholics .

the sectarian conflict Violence between palestinian jews and arabs emerged Coming_to_be in the 1920s , peaking Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale into a full-scale civil war Military_operation in 1947 and transforming Change into the first unk war Military_operation in may 1948 , following the israeli declaration Expressing_publicly of independence Change_of_leadership .