According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s prophetic status was well-established among his followers before his death. However, a disagreement emerged soon afterward about the prophet’s death regarding ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Syria is under Sunni majority rule, the very scenario Assad portrayed as an existential threat to garner support among his own minority sect, the Alawites. They're an offshoot of Shia Islam and ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, ...

Syria is under Sunni majority rule, the very scenario Assad portrayed as an existential threat to garner support among his own minority sect, the Alawites. They're an offshoot of Shia Islam and ...

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 ...

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

Nearly all Arab states are ruled by Sunnis, and their leaders have long been suspicious of Assad's friendship with non-Arab, Shi'ite Muslim Iran. - The elder Assad had crushed Sunni militants ...