In just a few days more the Sunni Muslim fanatics of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, burst out of the north-western province of Idlib where they had been ...

For over five decades, this Alawite dynasty has held sway over a predominantly Sunni nation. This long rule, initiated by Hafez al-Assad in 1970, now stares at an abrupt end. Hafez al-Assad rose ...

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime following a lightning offensive led by al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and an array of Sunni factions supported by Turkey has created new realities on ...

Shia fighters from Iraq, Lebanon and Iran battled to secure and then protect it over the course of this war. But everything changed this week: the mosque is now being guarded by Sunni HTS forces.

Chief among the rebel forces that ended 50 years of brutal dynastic rule by Assad and his father was Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Muslim group previously affiliated with Al Qaeda that is ...

(AP Photo) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A suicide bomber killed a local police officer and wounded another in a southern Iranian port city, home to a large Sunni Muslim community, local media said Sunday. The ...

India has 29 states with at least 720 districts comprising of approximately 6 lakh villages, and over 8200 cities and towns. Indian postal department has allotted a unique postal code of pin code ...

Syria War: After over five decades of rule, the Assad family's reign in Syria has ended with the fall of Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad's flight. Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, seized power ...

Sunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism. He has worked for Time magazine, USA TODAY, The Wilmington News-Journal ...

Late in November, developments in Syria caused alarm, in how a mostly dormant civil war was seeing dramatic movement in a short period. An armed set of forces comprising the Syrian opposition began ...

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