The Economist3d
A short history of Syria, in maps
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...
Voice of America4d
Residents in violence-hit Pakistani district face malnutrition, depression
Surrounded by Afghanistan on three sides, the district in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has been largely cut off from the country ... between Shiite and Sunni tribes ...
Military.com6d
Syrian Intelligence Agency Says it Thwarted a Planned Islamic State Attack on a Shiite Shrine
DAMASCUS (AP) — Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite ... in the country, is a Sunni Islamist group ...
WTOP News2d
Trucks carrying food for besieged residents come under rocket attack in NW Pakistan
Shiite Muslims dominate parts of Kurram, although they are a minority in the rest of Pakistan, which is majority Sunni. The area has a history of sectarian conflict, with militant Sunni groups ...
The Times of Israel4d
The Middle East’s New Jigsaw Puzzle
In yet another piece of the jigsaw puzzle of a new Middle East, Mr. As-Sudani sees reining in the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite ...
The Washington Post5d
Phebe Marr, scholar of Iraq’s history and upheavals, dies at 93
Dr. Marr’s broad academic specialty was decoding the conflicts, rivalries and competing ambitions between Iraq’s main groups of Shiite and Sunni Muslims ... although the country’s borders ...
US must not become complacent to a growing terrorism threat, a Counterterrorism Center official says
Brett Holmgren got woken up early on New Year’s Day by alerts that a driver had plowed into a crowd of revelers in New ...
National Interest on MSN5d
After Assad: Syria’s Fractured Path Forward
The Struggle for the Middle East (1989) offers crucial insight into the domestic, regional, and international forces that ...
Big News Network.com4d
Syria thwarts planned Islamic State attack on Shiite shrine
DAMASCUS, SYRIA - Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the ... the de facto ruling party in the ...
fpri.org5d
Reflecting on Turkish-American Relations in a Second Trump Term
The election of Donald J. Trump for a second term marks a major shift in global politics. It appears that the neoliberal era, ...
中国日报网6d
Syria's future uncertain amid power struggles
The country's diverse population — Sunni Muslims, Shia Alawites, Christians ... "(Former Syrian president) Bashar al-Assad's collapse will inevitably alter the geopolitical map of the region," Zhao ...
Loughborough University4d
International Relations, Politics and History
7 January 2025 Syria: fall of Assad a blow for Iran’s ‘Shia crescent’ – here are its foreign policy ... and the Alawites were deemed non-Muslim by many Sunni groups. Our academic staff are all ...