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 ...

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

To hammer home the message, three European envoys made clear in a March 11 meeting with Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani in ...

The founder of an Islamic think tank has denied that the two books he edited, which the national religious council is looking to ban, contain teachings that contravened Sunni creed and ethics that ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

A primary Baloch grievance is the construction of the mega port of Gwadar, which began in 2002 and is ongoing. India has ...

The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

A controversial Ramadan TV series banned in both Iran and Iraq explores the possible origins of the schism between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims. We hear from Dr Sayed Ammar Nakshawani- Prophet Muhammad ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has ruled that the case challenging the election of Sheikh ...

As the army seized control of the Republican Palace in the capital, Khartoum, last Friday, one armed faction appeared prominently in all the social media videos documenting the event: the "Al-Baraa ...

“Obviously Sharaa doesn’t control the foreign jihadis and does not call all the shots,” said Marwan Muasher, vice president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “What is clear is that ...