As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...
The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...
Iran and Turkey are vying for dominance, impacting regional stability, alliances, and Israel’s strategic challenges in an ...
A protest was held on Monday at the small Imam Bada under the leadership of Maulana Syed Saif Abbas Naqvi against the ...
The rescue this past year of Israeli hostages Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrei Kozlov began Israel's ascendant trajectory.
The Houthis are part and parcel of Yemeni society – but are also a backward minority loathed by most Yemenis, says Ali Al ...
Even as the nation awaits more details about the New Year’s truck-ramming that killed 14 innocent partygoers celebrating in ...
A tribute session was held at Madressa Jamia al-Muntazar in Nougawan Sadat to honor the renowned Indian Shia scholar ...
The war that Hamas launched on October 7, 2023, has inspired jihadists around the world. Chants of ‘globalize the intifada’ lead Western extremists ...
In this critical moment, the Iranian mullahs salvaged Assad’s presidency by declaring the Alawites a branch of Shia Islam. This marked the beginning of a partnership that would shape the Middle ...
The vast majority have been from the minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Shia Islam that the Assad family adheres to. Given the key role Alawites played in Assad's brutally repressive ...
The differences between Sunnis and Shiites they originated in the dawn of Islam and, in particular, in dispute over the ...