About 40,000 individuals, primarily the wives, female relatives and children of male Islamic State suspects, are held in the ...

Lebanon's Sunni leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who suspended his political activity more than three years ago, ...

U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...

Qatar's President Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani made the first official visit to Syria after the interim government was ...

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has created a unique and complex geopolitical challenge for Arab states, particularly ...

Smaller, more moderate groups were pushed to merge with jihadist groups under extremist leadership. By the end of 2012, the ...

The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria says that the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be ...

Shia vs Sunni in Syria: Syria, a country which constitutes 74% Sunni population was being ruled by Bashar al-Assad, affiliated with the Alawite sect, a syncretic sect with links to early Shi’ism ...

Because of its religious diversity and bloody history during the civil war, the city is considered a test case for the new ...

Syria is a Sunni-majority country, but its Christian and Muslim minority sects account for between 15 and 25 per cent of the population. The Christian population has declined significantly since ...