A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials said. The coastal ...

Israel on Friday launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest ...

Iran, a Shia-majority country, is believed to back the Houthis, even as it has denied the charge. Its regional rival, the Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia ... influenced and been influenced by the world ...

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and affiliated fighters, experts said.

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 ...

The military is currently engaged in an ongoing operation in Kurram, an area that has witnessed years of sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities.

The majority of the population in the coastal cities are members of the ousted president's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam ... Assad's government in the Sunni-majority country, linking ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Syria’s interim government announced Monday the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents ...

The Alawites are the second-largest religious group in Syria after Sunni Muslims. Their faith is an offshoot Shia Islam. Al Arabiya’s top content is selected based on the number of total views ...

"We want the rule of law, and we want to be citizens, not Sunni or Shia or Alawi. We want to be citizens in a ... Turkey, which hosts the largest population of Syrian refugees in the world, also ...

Syria's coast is home to its Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shia Islam that makes up about ... The majority of the population is Sunni Muslim, as is Syria's new president, Ahmed Al Sharaa.

an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that is the faith of some of Assad's most ardent supporters and became associated with Assad's wartime atrocities against Syria's mostly Sunni Muslim population.