Time magazine, as part of its annual tradition, has released the list of the 100 most influential people of the world in 2025. Among them is Ahmad Shara, the interim President of Syria, joining ...

Despite their small number, the Bektashis are set to form the world’s newest country — a first-of-its-kind Islamic microstate ...

A British diplomat revealed that the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham [HTS] Ahmed Al-Julani has assured the UK that Syria will ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. Since October 7, the right-wing government in Israel has seized the opportunity to dismantle Palestine while ...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”- Blaise Pascal Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...

As it resumes military operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel has expanded its ground incursions across southern Syria in ...

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

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In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure ...

Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same message, half a century after the devastating conflict erupted: ...