"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.

Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed off on a constitutional declaration for a five-year-long transitional period ...

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 ...

Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. and the United Kingdom began a series of airstrikes against the Houthis starting ...

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that Sambhal, mentioned in scriptures over 5,000 years old, predates Islam ... and I respect every sect and religion ...

Those concerns had risen in recent days, with a deadly outbreak of violence across Syria killing hundreds of civilians, mostly from the Alawite community — the small Islamic sect to which the ...

Devotees who arrived early morning on March 8 at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills were shocked to find the ...

The Druze, who are spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, are an esoteric Islamic sect that branched out of Ismaili Shiism (AFP photo) BEIRUT, Lebanon - A delegation of Syrian Druze clerics is ...