"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Iran, the world’s fifth-largest oil producer and third-largest gas producer, claims its nuclear program is for civilian use.

The Druze are overseen by their spiritual leader, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, from the northern Israeli town of Julis. When asked ...

The prime minister held up a map that erased Palestine and showed ... forces clashed with Druze militiamen. The Druze, a Muslim sect viewed by Sunni Muslims as heretics, populate the Golan Heights ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and ...

The advances are detailed in a map produced by the Critical Threats Project at the ... namely through the militant groups backed by the Islamic Republic such as Hamas and Hezbollah. A prolonged ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 (Bernama) -- Leading Islamic scholars and senior muftis from over 90 countries have gathered in Makkah for the second edition of the international conference “Building Bridges ...

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

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on March 13. Here is a look at sects and minorities in Syria, which has been destroyed by years of civil war ...