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Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

A multimillion-dollar Saudi TV production portraying the life of an early Islamic ruler has caused controversy in the Middle East, with Iraq and Iran banning the show and some clerics denouncing it as ...

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 745 civilians, 125 government security force members and 148 militants ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

At least 1,300 have been killed in Syria as security forces clash with loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The violence is concentrated in Tartus and Latakia, home to Alawites. The Assads ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...

Bill 2024, accusing it of aiming to please Hindus at Muslims' expense. He asserts that such policies cannot disrupt harmony ...

Born in 1962 in Najaf, Iraq, Tabrizian is a high-ranked Shi’a cleric (an ayatollah) and a graduate of major Shi’a seminaries. Although he is currently the most prominent figure in Islamic medicine in ...

LUCKNOW: Prominent Shia Muslim cleric Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad Naqvi led a massive protest in Lucknow against the BJP ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 162 civilians were "executed" in a coastal region linked to ousted ...