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As Syrians Fight, Sectarian Strife Infects Mideast
(New York Times) Tim Arango, Anne Barnard and Duraid Adnan - The Syrian civil war is inciting Sunnis and Shiites in other countries to attack one another. Renewed sectarian killing has brought the highest death toll in Iraq in five years, while in Lebanon, clashes have worsened between opposing sects in the city of Tripoli. "Nothing has helped make the Sunni-Shia narrative stick on a popular level more than the images of Assad - with Iranian help - butchering Sunnis in Syria," said Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council. "Iran and Assad may win the military battle, but only at the expense of cementing decades of ethnic discord."