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.

DUBAI, March 14 (Reuters) - Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in ... by Syria's majority Sunni Muslims against the Alawite ...

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has accused Israel of exploiting followers of his minority faith in Syria as part of a ...

The first two episodes of the series, which is a 30-episode show about the founder of the Umayyad dynasty ... but after the conquest of Mecca by Muslims, Muawiya and his family converted to Islam.

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.

The copper plates that recorded the history of the first kings of Maldives of the Solar Dynasty were lost long ago. Maldives is a Sunni Muslim majority country. Yameen, who became the President in ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

"What's quite unique to Iran is that Iran retained its civilization and its language, while other languages made way for Arabic," Merhavy said. "Egypt and Lebanon and Syria - all ...

One is that you have a (regional) Shi’i dynasty come to power that patronizes these ... Previously, scholars who studied Islam largely dealt with Sunni sources. And so, even when they talked about Shi ...

This Ramadan — the Muslim holy month of daily fasting and ... Relief, hope and joy at new openings — after 53 years of the Assad dynasty's reign, prolonged civil war and crushing economic ...