Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri has harshly criticized Syria's government for what he called an "unjustified ...

Since Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in December, hundreds of Alawites have been forced from their private ...

Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni ...

A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the ...

Al-Azhar's rooting of the idea of ​​unfairness in inheritance division, based on the logic that men deserve twice as much as ...

Um Hassan says she was forced to surrender Damascus home within 24 hours after brother arrested; rights group says thousands ...

Netanyahu is not prepared to admit that his big gamble – invest in Hamas, pit it against the PA, and rule the Palestinians – ...

The area was working-class, home to 2m people, most of them Sunni Muslims like the majority of Syria’s population. During the Arab spring, Ghouta was one of the first parts of Syria to rise up ...

While most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, they are linked to other regional ethnic minorities, such as Yezidis, Alevi, and Zoroastrianism. The Kurds have a reputation for gritty bravery. Historically ...

Gaza, by contrast, is not heterogeneous and not a country. It’s a political no-man’s land populated by Sunni Muslims and fully conquered by jihadists. There is no equivalent there of Lebanon ...