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 ...

The defense ministers of Syria and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire on Monday, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported, ...

Sunni-Muslim countries announced that they will mark the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan on Saturday. However, Shiite Iran will begin the festival on Sunday. Muslims around the world are set ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This spreading influence has caused concern to the Sunni rulers of Arab countries with Shia minorities, such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, members of the Saudis' own Shia ...

The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam, and it once formed the core constituency of Assad's government in the Sunni-majority country. Opponents of Assad saw Syria under the family's rule as ...

Rights groups reported dozens of revenge killings resulting from Sunni militants targeting the minority Islamic sect, regardless of whether they were involved in the insurgency. Here’s a look at the ...