Iranian media say a suicide bomber killed a local police officer and wounded another in a southern Iranian port city, home to ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the community's fears and desires to stay in power.

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and ...

Earth-shattering events do not reveal their secrets quickly, and the recent breakdown of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime in ...

Syria's new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day ...

Across faiths and across the globe, prominent individuals whose legacies are likely to continue to shape their ministries and ...

Syria's new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day ...

Clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar Assad's government killed six Islamic ...

Since Mr Assad’s fall, dozens of Syrians have been killed in acts of revenge, according to activists and monitors, the vast majority of them from the minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Shiite ...

an offshoot of Shiite Islam that Assad belongs to. In the capital, Damascus, Alawite protesters scuffled with Sunni counter-protesters and gunshots were heard. The Associated Press could not confirm ...

As religious tensions spiked in Bangladesh following the arrest of a Hindu leader, social media users in neighbouring India ...

Syria's historic ethnic and religious minorities also include Muslim Kurds and Shi'ites - who feared during the civil war ...