The issue was never resolved, and the two major branches of Islam that exist today ... They would later be called simply Shia Muslims. Others are called Sunni Muslims, from the word meaning ...

Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

Rights groups, such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), have reported that recent killings on the coast were ...

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US military, be warned: after years of fighting in rugged terrain and weathering thousands of air strikes, Yemen's Huthi ...

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

Backgrounder: Some experts say a "Shiite crescent" holds the potential to transform Islamic politics in the ... Vali Nasr writes in his new book, The Shia Revival, that war in Iraq will not ...

On 6 and 7 March, over 1000 Alawis members of the former ruling Alawite sect (a schismatic branch of Shia Islam) were, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, executed by HTS fighters ...

Victims and survivors of revenge attacks in Syria have told Sky News how families are being "slaughtered" amid a new wave of ...