Powerless, yet not inactive. Immediately, the largely Shia population of the Bekaa sought refuge in the mountains, turning to their Christian neighbors for shelter. Local estimates suggest that ...

For Israel, Turkish President Erdoğan might become the next existential threat as he envisions a neo-Ottoman empire.

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...

Suppose the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and other moderate states are on the same page, acting in concert to lessen the influence of jihadists that ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

EXCERPT:Shiites have alleged 110 of their members have been detained since 2019, condemning ongoing persecution under Tinubu’s government. No fewer than 110 members of the Islamic Movement popularly ...

A key highway leading to the Kurram district was closed by authorities over three months ago following violent clashes between rival Shiite and Sunni tribes ... the local population’s access ...

The attack sparked a wave of sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni communities, with multiple retaliatory assaults over the following days, raising the death toll to over 150. "Many claim that ...

Authorities in northwestern Pakistan announced Wednesday that heavily armed rival Sunni and Shiite ... district where Shiites, not Sunnis, make up the majority of the population.