The story of a divisive Islamic ruler from ancient times, produced by a broadcaster in the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has ...

Rights groups, such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), have reported that recent killings on the coast were ...

To permanently neutralize Hamas, Israel must employ ethnogenesis—the deliberate formation of competing sectarian, secular, civil, and economic power bases that will systematically starve Hamas of the ...

Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

The High court in Kampala has ruled that the case challenging the re-election of Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje as Mufti of ...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa has a lot to prove to win over Western powers. The West is watching Syria's leaders closely ...

But the ruthless domination of Syria by Alawites for the next 58 years caused the country's majority Sunni Muslim population in 2011 to rebel, leading to a full-scale civil war that ended in ...

US President Donald Trump has launched the biggest military operation in the Middle East since taking office against Yemen’s ...

The Israeli army confirmed the strikes, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Syria's military infrastructure since ...