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At least three people are killed when a feud between Hezbollah supporters and a local clan of Sunni Arabs ends with gunfight in south Beirut, Lebanon. The army arrives at the scene and arrests four people.
2020-08-27

Two suicide bomber attacks, one on a Shia mosque in Kabul and one on a Sunni mosque in Ghor Province, kill approximately 60 people. Approximately 180 people have been killed in bombing attacks this week.
2017-10-20

The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi calls for abolishing the positions of Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister and says he is opening graft investigations. The previous vice president Tariq al-Hashimi was sentenced in absentia to death over political murders.
2015-08-9

Clashes with ISIL in Anbar province kill twenty-three Iraqi Army soldiers and allied Sunni fighters.
2015-01-6

At least 20 people are killed and 200 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013-08-15

Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least eight people and injuring 24.
2013-08-9

At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 are wounded in bomb attacks at Sunni mosques in Baghdad and in the province of Diyala.
2013-04-12

The Central Criminal Court of Iraq sentences "in absentia" Vice president of Iraq Tariq al-Hashimi and his aide Ahmed Qahtan to death by hanging for, among other charges, the assassination of a lawyer and that of an Army general.
2012-09-9

2011 Yemeni uprising: At least 25 people are killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia groups in Yemen.
2011-11-28

Two bombs killed 42 people and wounded 65 others in Iraq's mainly Sunni Diyala province, prior to the release of full preliminary results from the March 7 parliamentary election.
2010-03-27