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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The final day of the 32nd annual International Sunni Ijtema of Sunni Dawate Islami saw thousands gather at Azad Maidan for guidance and prayers. Key themes included strengthening faith through ...
More than 130 people have been reported killed as of Dec. 1, 2024 amid continuing sectarian clashes between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Pakistan’s northwestern Kurram district.
A 2nd ceasefire is reached between warring Shiites and Sunni Muslims in Pakistan's restive northwest
Though nobody claimed the assault, some Shiites, after burying the victims, launched attacks on Sunni Muslims and clashes ensued, killing 78 people and wounding 200 others. A ceasefire was reached ...
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