"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 American role was a positive role and in the interest of Syria and the Syrians," an SDF political wing adviser told ...

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 Druse belong to a sect that broke away from Islam roughly 1,000 years ago, ultimately becoming a separate religion. Its members, now scattered between Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and northern ...