http://www.mail.com/subjects/8238-religious-strife.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/8238-religious-strife.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2159078-iraqi-suicide-bombers-hit-baghdad-mosque-kill-34.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Two suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, one blowing himself up at a nearby checkpoint while the other slipped inside during prayers. The blasts killed 34 people, Iraqi officials said. The coordinated bombings were the latest in a string of attacks to hit Iraq, reviving fears the country is headed back toward the ... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:27:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2159078-iraqi-suicide-bombers-hit-baghdad-mosque-kill-34.html 2013-06-18T18:27:42Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2157746-kurds-fight-place-syrian-civil-war.html BEIRUT (AP) — Taking advantage of the chaos of the civil war, Syria's Kurdish minority has carved out a once unthinkable degree of independence in their areas, creating their own police forces, even their own license plates, and exuberantly going public with their language and culture. But by pursuing their own path distinct from both the opposition and t... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:14:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2157746-kurds-fight-place-syrian-civil-war.html 2013-06-17T20:14:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2155344-killing-4-shiites-lebanon-deepens-tension.html BEIRUT (AP) — Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian tensions and concerns over the spillover of the civil war raging next door. Gunmen from the families of the slain Shiites took to the streets and set up roadblocks between their town and the neighboring Sunni ma... Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:13:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2155344-killing-4-shiites-lebanon-deepens-tension.html 2013-06-16T21:13:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2155298-hard-line-egypt-cleric-sentenced-burning-bible.html CAIRO (AP) — A hard-line Muslim cleric received an 11-year suspended sentence Sunday for tearing up and burning a Bible, Egypt's official news agency said. Cairo's Nasr City court sentenced Ahmed Abdullah and his son was given a suspended sentence of eight years over the same incident, the Middle East News Agency reported. The two were ordered to pay a fi... Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:32:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2155298-hard-line-egypt-cleric-sentenced-burning-bible.html 2013-06-16T17:32:45Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2153778-al-qaidas-iraq-head-defies-boss-syria-fight.html BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purportedly from him that was posted online Saturday. The latest statement by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who heads the Islamic State of Iraq, reveals a gr... Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:00:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2153778-al-qaidas-iraq-head-defies-boss-syria-fight.html 2013-06-15T21:00:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2153658-attacks-pakistans-southwest-kills-22.html QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that capped a series of attacks that killed 22 people. The violence emphasized the challenges that new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will have in bringing calm to Baluchi... Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:45:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2153658-attacks-pakistans-southwest-kills-22.html 2013-06-15T20:45:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2148882-israels-pm-opens-historic-exhibit-auschwitz.html OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Standing in front of a former prisoner block at the infamous Auschwitz death camp, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the world Thursday of not doing enough to stop the Holocaust and said Israel can only rely on itself to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. The scathing speech marked the most dramatic p... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:17:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2148882-israels-pm-opens-historic-exhibit-auschwitz.html 2013-06-13T20:17:01Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2148168-myanmar-jails-man-attack-that-sparked-rioting.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A Muslim man whose attack on a Buddhist woman set off sectarian rioting in Myanmar's northeast has been sentenced to 26 years in prison, a local politician said. The court sentenced 48-year-old Ne Win on Tuesday after he was convicted of attempted murder, causing serious injury and possession and use of illegal drugs, said National ... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:16:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2148168-myanmar-jails-man-attack-that-sparked-rioting.html 2013-06-13T02:16:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2146008-syrian-extremist-rebels-raid-shiite-village.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels, including Sunni extremists, stormed a village and battled pro-regime militiamen, killing more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians in an attack steeped in the sectarian hatreds that increasingly characterize the civil war, activists said Wednesday. In the raid, which comes at a time when the West is worried that extremists ar... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:06:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2146008-syrian-extremist-rebels-raid-shiite-village.html 2013-06-12T21:06:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2142198-iraqi-shiite-fighters-syria-role-raises-tensions.html BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi Shiite fighter's family is urging him to stop risking his life by traveling to Syria, saying he's done his part defending the holy shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside Damascus. Abu Mohammed al-Moussawi isn't listening. The 33-year-old father from southern Baghdad, who wears a ring inscribed with a Quranic verse, is preparing for his f... Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:45:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2142198-iraqi-shiite-fighters-syria-role-raises-tensions.html 2013-06-10T18:45:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2140458-mass-honors-bomb-victim-day-would-turn-9.html BOSTON (AP) — The youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombings was honored Sunday at a Roman Catholic Mass on what would have been his ninth birthday. The family of Martin Richard was joined by hundreds of people from Boston and the region in Sunday's tribute at St. Ann Parish in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. The congregation cheered as Martin's 7-... Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:06:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2140458-mass-honors-bomb-victim-day-would-turn-9.html 2013-06-10T01:06:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2137500-hezbollah-entry-syria-fans-shiite-sunni-fires.html CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian cleric was in a fervor. With Hezbollah's Shiite fighters helping Bashar Assad crush Syrian rebels, he wanted to sound the alarm to Sunnis across the Middle East: "Now is the time for jihad." Speaking on a Saudi TV station, Sheik Mohammed el-Zoghbi called on "young men in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Kuwait, Jordan, Yemen," to ... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:30:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2137500-hezbollah-entry-syria-fans-shiite-sunni-fires.html 2013-06-07T20:30:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2136480-ap-interview-sabra-syria-war-sectarian.html COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Syria's main opposition group on Friday warned that the involvement of Hezbollah is transforming the war in Syria into a sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, and says peace negotiations aren't possible as long as Hezbollah and Iran are fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's regime. George Sabra, acti... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:50:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2136480-ap-interview-sabra-syria-war-sectarian.html 2013-06-07T13:50:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2130814-gunmen-iraq-ambush-shoot-dead-14-travelers.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a group of travelers at a fake checkpoint at a remote desert site in western Iraq on Wednesday and killed at least 14 of them, according to Iraqi officials, in what appeared to be the latest blow in sectarian violence gripping the country. The gunmen, apparently looking for Shiites to kill, struck near the town of Nukhaib. T... Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:05:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2130814-gunmen-iraq-ambush-shoot-dead-14-travelers.html 2013-06-05T15:05:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2124260-hezbollah-syrian-rebels-worst-clash-lebanon.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and Hezbollah guerrillas battled Sunday in their worst clashes yet inside Lebanon, a new sign that the civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilizing its fragile neighbor. Syria's foreign minister, meanwhile, rebuffed an appeal by the U.N. and the Red Cross to let humanitarian aid reach thousands of civilians trapped in the r... Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:46:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2124260-hezbollah-syrian-rebels-worst-clash-lebanon.html 2013-06-02T19:46:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2122942-rockets-syria-hit-hezbollah-stronghold.html BEIRUT (AP) — Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliate for the Lebanese militant group's armed support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The rockets targeted the Baalbek region, the latest sign that Syria's civil... Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:17:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2122942-rockets-syria-hit-hezbollah-stronghold.html 2013-06-01T19:17:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2123234-spike-violence-iraq-echoes.html BAGHDAD (AP) — More than a year after the U.S. military left Iraq, the country is reeling from its most sustained violence since 2008. Over the last two months more than 1,700 people have been killed, raising fears the country is sliding back into chaos. The current mayhem began with a wave of protests by Sunnis alleging neglect and mistreatment at the ha... Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:32:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2123234-spike-violence-iraq-echoes.html 2013-06-01T14:32:51Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2121278-radical-monks-prejudice-fuel-myanmar-violence.html LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — When a huge mob of Buddhist thugs crawled on the roof of Ma Sandar Soe's shop, doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze, the Buddhist businesswoman didn't blame them for burning it to the ground despite seeing it happen with her own eyes. Instead, her wrath was reserved for minority Muslims she accused of igniting Myanmar's latest ... Sat, 01 Jun 2013 05:44:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2121278-radical-monks-prejudice-fuel-myanmar-violence.html 2013-06-01T05:44:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2120918-bomb-shooting-kill-7-iraq.html BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb exploded amid Sunni worshippers leaving a mosque in west Baghdad, one of two attacks Friday that left seven dead in Iraq, officials said. Iraqi security forces are struggling to contain the country's most relentless round of violence since the 2011 U.S. military withdrawal. Over 30 Sunni mosques have been hit in the past two months a... Fri, 31 May 2013 12:29:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2120918-bomb-shooting-kill-7-iraq.html 2013-05-31T12:29:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2120572-lebanese-hezbollah-attacks-syria-draw-response.html HERMEL, Lebanon (AP) — In Shiite towns and villages near the border with Syria, residents who support Hezbollah are bearing the brunt of the militant Lebanese group's growing involvement in the Syrian civil war. Shells fired by Syria's overwhelmingly Sunni rebels regularly fall on the town, killing civilians, scaring off visitors and keeping schools and m... Fri, 31 May 2013 06:14:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2120572-lebanese-hezbollah-attacks-syria-draw-response.html 2013-05-31T06:14:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2118250-myanmar-muslims-find-shelter-buddhist-monastery.html LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — More than 1,000 Muslims who fled Myanmar's latest bout of sectarian violence huddled in a Buddhist monastery guarded by army soldiers as calm returned to this northeastern city, though burnt out buildings leveled by Buddhist rioters still smoldered. The army transported terrified Muslim families by the truckload out of a neighborhoo... Fri, 31 May 2013 01:26:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2118250-myanmar-muslims-find-shelter-buddhist-monastery.html 2013-05-31T01:26:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2119382-tale-2-converts-egypts-sectarian-divide.html ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — In one case, an Egyptian Christian man stabs his wife after she converts to Islam with the support of hard-line Islamists. Then after surrendering to police, he dies in mysterious circumstances, falling from a court building window. At about the same time, a Muslim woman in another small village converts to Christianity and elopes wit... Thu, 30 May 2013 19:05:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2119382-tale-2-converts-egypts-sectarian-divide.html 2013-05-30T19:05:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115334-buddhist-mobs-spread-fear-myanmars-muslims.html LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — It was a terrifying sight: hundreds of angry, armed men on motorcycles advancing up a dusty street with no one to stop them. Shouting at the top of their lungs, clutching machetes and iron pipes and long bamboo poles, they thrust their fists repeatedly into the air. The object of their rage: Myanmar's embattled minority Muslim commu... Thu, 30 May 2013 03:48:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115334-buddhist-mobs-spread-fear-myanmars-muslims.html 2013-05-30T03:48:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115802-evening-bomb-blasts-kill-30-baghdad.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Bomb blasts tore through two Baghdad neighborhoods Wednesday evening, killing at least 30 people including several members of a wedding party, and extending a relentless wave of bloodshed roiling Iraq. The attacks come as the country is experiencing its most sustained bout of violence since the 2011 U.S. military withdrawal. More than 500 p... Wed, 29 May 2013 20:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115802-evening-bomb-blasts-kill-30-baghdad.html 2013-05-29T20:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115954-reports-uk-prisons-alerted-hostage-taking.html LONDON (AP) — British prison officers have been warned to be on the lookout after a hostage drama blamed on extremist Muslim inmates, British newspapers reported Wednesday, a sign of simmering tension a week after an off-duty soldier was killed in a frenzied attack on a London street. An email circulated to high-security prisons and young offenders' insti... Wed, 29 May 2013 11:36:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115954-reports-uk-prisons-alerted-hostage-taking.html 2013-05-29T11:36:54Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115588-fighting-syria-hezbollah-charts-risky-course.html KAFR KILA, Lebanon (AP) — The giant posters of Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon's wars with Israel still dot the picturesque landscape of southern Lebanon, the few remaining reminders of some of the epic battles that once made the Shiite guerrilla group and its leader Hassan Nasrallah heroes in the Arab world. Nowadays, they are overshadowed by fresh ... Wed, 29 May 2013 06:43:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2115588-fighting-syria-hezbollah-charts-risky-course.html 2013-05-29T06:43:38Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2112270-suu-kyi-opposes-2-child-limit-myanmar-minority.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Islamic leaders expressed dismay over decisions by authorities in western Myanmar to restore a two-child limit on a Muslim minority group, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists and follows accusations of "ethnic cleansing." The order makes Myanmar perhaps the only country in the world to le... Tue, 28 May 2013 19:48:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2112270-suu-kyi-opposes-2-child-limit-myanmar-minority.html 2013-05-28T19:48:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2112456-bombs-tear-through-iraqi-capital-killing-60.html BAGHDAD (AP) — A coordinated wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 66 people and maiming nearly 200 as insurgents step up the bloodshed roiling Iraq. The attacks in markets and other areas frequented by civilians are the latest sign of a rapid deterioration in security as sectarian tensions are exacer... Mon, 27 May 2013 20:11:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2112456-bombs-tear-through-iraqi-capital-killing-60.html 2013-05-27T20:11:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2112822-deadly-attacks-iraq-us-troop-pullout.html BAGHDAD (AP) — Here is a look at the some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011: —May 27, 2013: A wave of car bombings tears through mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhoods of the Baghdad area, leaving at least 66 people dead. —May 21, 2013: Car bombing at a Sunni mosque kills at least 20 people. ... Mon, 27 May 2013 17:25:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2112822-deadly-attacks-iraq-us-troop-pullout.html 2013-05-27T17:25:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2109400-2-child-limit-muslims-parts-myanmar.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence. Local officials said Saturday that the new measure would be applied to two Rakhine to... Sat, 25 May 2013 12:35:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2109400-2-child-limit-muslims-parts-myanmar.html 2013-05-25T12:35:36Z