This was my first thought when I heard about the death of HH Prince Karim Aga Khan, the 49th Imam Zaman of Islam’s Ismaili sect and unquestionably the world ... We are known as Sunni Ismailis but the ...

Gunmen loyal to the Sunni Islamist-led government have been accused of carrying out revenge killings against members of Assad's minority Alawite sect following a deadly ambush on a security patrol.

The killings are concentrated in the coastal areas of Tartus and Latakia, which are home to the Alawite community, a small Islamic sect to which the Assads belong. Since the downfall of the Assad ...

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