leading to rise in influence of Sunni countries in the West Asia. After the Syrian rebels, led by HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharam came to power, one of the first things they did was to ban Israeli and ...

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 ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

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 ...

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Both have been targeted by Sunni extremist factions in the past ... is reshaping Israel’s security strategy along the two countries’ shared ceasefire line. The Israeli government views the ...

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 ...

A Syrian fact-finding committee investigating sectarian killings during clashes between the army and loyalists of Bashar ...

Syria’s leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar ...

For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 1 ...