Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

DUBAI - Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December ... by Syria's majority Sunni Muslims against the Alawite leadership.

A television series about the life of the Umayyad caliph, Muawiya, titled "Mo'awey," which was banned in Iraq due to the potential for stirring sectarian tensions, has made its way onto the screen.

Here is a look at sects and minorities in Syria, which has been destroyed by years of civil war following a 2011 uprising spearheaded by Syria's majority Sunni Muslims against the Alawite leadership.

This nation was once settled by South Indian kings. From the king to the subjects, everyone was Hindu. Then how did it turn into a Muslim country? Now only Muslims get citizenship there. And this ...

"He founded what we call the Achaemenid Empire, which is really the empire during which time we have the story of Purim.

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad has escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.