Meanings of sectarian bloodletting in English

Last year was the deadliest since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-07.

Violence is far from the sectarian bloodletting that killed tens of thousands in 2006-2007.

Iraq has faced sectarian bloodletting for years, mainly between minority Sunnis and a Shi'ite majority empowered after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Violence in Iraq is down since the height of sectarian bloodletting in 2006-2007 when thousands were killed.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis died and hundreds of thousands were displaced in sectarian bloodletting between 2006 and 2007.

The tensions threaten a relapse into the kind of sectarian bloodletting that drove Iraq to the brink of civil war a few years ago.

More than 5,500 people have been killed in violence this year, prompting concerns of a return to sectarian bloodletting.

A cosmopolitan Mediterranean country with 18 sects, Lebanon endured a 15-year civil war characterized by ethnic and sectarian bloodletting between Muslims and Christians.