NAWA, Syria (Reuters) -As sectarian violence swept through Syria's southern Sweida province in July, the Sbeih family say they were taken by Druze gunmen and held in a school with other Bedouin tribe ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis are preparing to vote in a parliamentary election that comes at a crucial moment in the country and the region. The vote will begin Sunday with polling for members of the ...

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance came into the White House promising to take more of a backstage role in the Middle East. In a May 2025 speech, Trump railed against military ...

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Three decades before the “War on Terror” and its orientation of “Islamic terrorism” as the principal threat to American security, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was its standing talisman. The color ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent activist in Bahrain imprisoned since the country’s 2011 Arab Spring protests began a new hunger strike Wednesday, seeking to pressure the island kingdom ...

Interfaith group uses projects and dialogues to push for greater religious freedom. This is the third article in a three-part series about the problem of sectarianism in the Middle East and ways the ...

An interfaith group created a Youth Mock Parliament to imagine a nonsectarian government. This is the second part of a three-part series about the problem of sectarianism in the Middle East and how ...