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WARNING: This story contains graphic details. Syria's coast is home to its Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shia Islam that makes up about 10 per cent of the population. The Assad family are ...

Indonesia 's human rights minister has proposed the enactment of a religious freedom law to end discrimination against minority groups in the Muslim-majority nation.

A viral video claims to show "Christians" being harassed in Indonesia for not observing Ramadan. It does show Ramadan-related ...

Equally, Syria’s minorities – particularly Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam that comprises around 10% of Syria’s population – were over-represented in the Assad regime’s top echelons.

Of these some 5% are Shia, the rest are Sunni ... 2.5 million Muslims in the UK and the mosque has a central role in Islam. It’s the place where Muslims gather for Friday prayers and other ...

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.

Syrian security forces on Sunday fired in the air to disperse rival protests after pro-government demonstrators clashed with a gathering mourning dead civilians, following the reported mass ...

(Beirut) – After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law that entered into force on February 17, 2025, violates women’s and girls’ rights to ...

Syria's new authorities announced on Monday the end of an operation against loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, after nearly 1,000 civilians were killed in the worst violence since his ...

Syria's government on Sunday announced a probe after the killing of Alawite civilians triggered an international backlash against the worst violence since Bashar al-Assad's overthrow. In its ...