PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Tribal elders backed by local authorities in restive northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday brokered a peace deal between minority Shiites and majority Sunni tribes ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Their accounts reflect fears of persecution despite promises of protection by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) - the Sunni Islamist group which has emerged as the dominant force in the new Syria but is ...

“With him gone, we Alawites may face pressures.” “Now that the Sunni Muslims have come to govern [in Syria], I hope they won’t harm the Alawite people.” The collapse of the Assad regime ...

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 ...

Shiite Muslims dominate parts of Kurram, although they are a minority in the rest of Pakistan, which is majority Sunni. The area has a history of sectarian conflict, with militant Sunni groups ...

(AP Photo) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A suicide bomber killed a local police officer and wounded another in a southern Iranian port city, ...