A critical analysis reveals that such enforcement poses significant risks, including marginalizing non-Muslim communities and ...

More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the territory's Health ...

Lucknow: An assistant professor at the University of Connecticut (USA), Asif Majid, along with Fulbright-Nehru scholars, will ...

Discover the largest Muslim country by population, where hundreds of millions of Muslims call it home and live with its religious influence.

Iran, the world’s fifth-largest oil producer and third-largest gas producer, claims its nuclear program is for civilian use.

The strikes, which have killed at least 24 people so far, could last for weeks according to one US official and come as Trump ...

Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes. View on euronews ...

The sect has its roots in Shia Islam. The word Alawite means “follower of Ali,” the cousin and son-in ... During this period, several local governments were set up – one for the Alawites, one for the ...

Syria's coast is home to its Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shia Islam that makes up about ... The majority of the population is Sunni Muslim, as is Syria's new president, Ahmed Al Sharaa.

Gunmen supporting the Sunni Islamist-led government have been ... coast is the heartland of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam to which many of the former Assad regime's political and ...

For over 50 years, the Alawite dynasty—an offshoot of Shia Islam—governed Syria, a predominantly Sunni nation. This rule, initiated by Hafez al-Assad (an Alawite) in 1970, abruptly ended in December ...

Bashar al-Assad belongs to the Alawite community, a Shia sect of Islam. The Alawaites, a minority ... Alawaites and other Syrian minorities, such as Christians and the Druze, fear they will face ...