Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...

A fierce religious identity dominates the Sunni-majority nation, with principles of the Koran, conservative Sunni teachings known as Wahhabism and strict Islamic Shariah law present in all aspects ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...

the ayatollahs saw it as a golden opportunity to break up the growing alliance between Israel and moderate Sunni countries in the region. That alliance was forged not out of any sudden epiphany ...

The Middle East is in the midst of ever-increasing tension, as conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia is spiraling to involve more countries in the region. Saudi Arabia severed all diplomatic ties ...

Minutes later, the gunmen, who were Sunni Muslim, broke into his building ... including the 14 years of civil war from which the country is now emerging — and it threatens to open an endless ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad has escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

The operation turned into revenge killings of a sectarian nature: after decades of brutality under the Assads in the mainly Sunni country, many associate Alawites with the old regime. A widely ...

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq it will start the following ...