Shia vs Sunni in Syria: Syria, a country which constitutes 74% Sunni population was being ruled by Bashar al-Assad, affiliated with the Alawite sect, a syncretic sect with links to early Shi’ism ...

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “armed men committed a massacre” on Friday and killed “10 citizens in Arza village in the northern Hama countryside.” The Britain-based ...

Lebanon is the Middle East’s most religiously diverse country. Its population is almost evenly split between Christians, Sunni Muslims, and Shia Muslims ... the south and Syrian forces in ...

The Lebanese militia Hezbollah formed to resist the Israeli occupation, taking inspiration, arms and funding from fellow Shia Muslims ... The Syrian military occupied Lebanon for almost 30 years ...

But by attempting to impose an “ideal solution” to the threat posed by Lebanese Hezbollah and address uncertainty arising from the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, analysts warned that ...

Iran has yet to reopen its embassy in Damascus, which had been a key node in running operations through its self-described “Axis of Resistance,” including Assad's Syria, Lebanon's Hezbollah ...

GHAJAR — On a recent morning in the Alawite village of Ghajar, straddling the border between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, children played in the school playground, a woman hung her laundry on the ...

Iran has yet to reopen its embassy in Damascus, which had been a key node in running operations through its self-described "Axis of Resistance," including Assad's Syria, Lebanon's Hezbollah ...