According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s prophetic status was well-established among his followers before his death. However, a disagreement emerged soon afterward about the prophet’s death regarding ...

The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

There are two main branches of Islam, called Sunni and Shi’a. This video shows a day in the life of Ezzy, a basketball player and Sunni Muslim.

Armed Sunni groups, considered loyal to the new regime after Assad’s removal, have begun retaliatory killings against ...

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

The two men in their sixties (their names have been changed for security reasons), the first a Sunni and the second an Alawite, spoke at length about the situation in Syria. Their conversation on ...

Al-Qusour slowly came back to life on Wednesday, March 12. The survivors returned, reassured by the withdrawal of the Sunni Islamist factions accused of the massacres and the redeployment of the ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...