Iran, the world’s fifth-largest oil producer and third-largest gas producer, claims its nuclear program is for civilian use.

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

More than 200 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-ruled enclave's Ministry of ...

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Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed off on a constitutional declaration for a five-year-long transitional period ...

The world still has not come to terms with the ... and other Presidents saw that balance being headed by Sunnis. Hamas bridges that Shiite/Sunni dichotomy and, like Israel, has not yet won or ...

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The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 physically split the Arab world in two for the first time in its ... Unitary Iraq would be replaced with Kurdish, Sunni Muslim, and Shia statelets. Yinon ...

Ali: Philosophy becoming integrated into theology is something that we can look to Hillah for, within the Shi’i world. That development takes place earlier within the Sunni world, but in the Shi’i ...

For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni ... top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, declared Sunday the first day of Ramadan. Only in Morocco, at the far-western edge of the Arab world ...