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 ...

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

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

The latest killings have included a campaign against Syria's Alawites, which was triggered by an attack on new government ...

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

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

The soldiers now supporting interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa are largely Islamist fighters from the Sunni Muslim majority that opposed Assad. The coastal unrest that flared this month did not ...

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 ...

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