They are leaving the sectarian conflict to the Iraqi police and focusing on the insurgency.
Alwani, a Sunni, thinks the Shiite-led government is deliberately shafting Fallujah for sectarian reasons.
Tanzania has seen a rise in sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in recent times.
He and his family recently fled their home in Baghdad after receiving a sectarian threat letter.
He has ruled as an authoritarian and Shia sectarian and has allied himself with Iran.
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Iraq is particularly troubling because of the sectarian cleansing that the war has generated.
SDLP, the largest nationalist party, some cross-sectarian parties and the two governments were there.
There, and in other neighbours, the Syrian exodus strains already explosive political and sectarian fault lines.
And she says the current sectarian violence is part of the legacy of Saddam Hussein.
But his is almost a lone voice in an increasingly sectarian and tense region.
Mr. Sleiman repeatedly has urged Lebanon's dueling sectarian factions to stick by the state's policy.
Tanzania has seen a rise in sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in the past year.
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But for many nationalists, they represent little more than sectarian bigotry and Protestant "coat-trailing" personified.
Ireland's entry into the EU helped to end the worst of Northern Ireland's sectarian war.
Syria's conflict, as the kidnappings attest, is increasingly splitting the region along sectarian lines.
The Lebanon kidnappings underscored the fragile balance in the country, where sectarian tensions are deep.
But what does sectarian warfare look like when it becomes entrenched as a way of life?
Here's an example: The Pentagon says sectarian deaths in Iraq were sharply down in August.
Yet the Pentagon doesn't consider large bombings like that one an example of sectarian violence.
Lawlessness in the region has also allowed sectarian groups and criminal gangs to operate.
The sectarian factor was clear, they directed sectarian insults to me and my sect.
The intelligence estimate says there is no leader in Iraq who transcends sectarian differences.
The police said the attack was sectarian and a "serious attempt to kill or injure someone".
On Saturday Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said "evil" sectarian conflict was returning to Iraq.
Officials said the policeman was investigating numerous sectarian attacks and had recently received death threats.
Explosive sectarian and regional divides have enabled authoritarian rule in Syria, Yemen and Libya.
Last January, when sectarian violence still raged, the monthly death toll nearly hit 2, 000.
North of Baghdad, bombings and sectarian killings continue to plague the cities of Baqouba and Kirkuk.
Commission of Inquiry on Syria focused on sectarian hostilities and referred to dangers faced by Christians.
We know that from our own experience with these units that they're strongly sectarian attitudes.
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