The clashes, which erupted Thursday, marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three ...

Darul Uloom Haqqania has been dubbed the 'University of Jihad' due to the seminary's teaching methods and content of ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Syria’s Latakia region. For the Kurds, the bloodshed only ...

Clashes between Syrian forces and Assad loyalists in the dictator's former heartlands show the risks ahead, writes Middle ...

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago.

Some were forced to crawl besides the bloodied corpses of their neighbours as they were battered by branches. Others were dragged out of their homes and shot at point-blank range ...

There was no quarter for the Hamawis, especially the Sunni Muslims who ... contemporary hairstyles and clothing, not the religious dress associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

We were searching for a site in the northern Bekaa valley recently bombed by Israel. Hadi knew near which village it was ...

Notably, the Tajik women's traditional clothing usually consists of colourful ... Of these, around 85-90 percent identify as Sunni Muslims, while 7-10 percent are Shia. Although the majority ...