The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released a report examining the decline in religious ...

The answer lies in the lawless borderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan. That is now the stamping ground of the Islamic ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is in a difficult predicament: he wants complete control over all of Syria but has lost the ...

Alevi organizations and local residents have voiced opposition to the opening of a prayer room at a site considered sacred by ...

Six Christians remain imprisoned in horrific conditions in Eritrea since 2004, along with another arrested in 2005, all ...

Many in the capital worry that the secular freedoms they enjoyed under the Assad regime are under threat from the new ...

Hundreds of people were reported killed in July in clashes in Sweida province pitting Druze fighters against Sunni Bedouin ...

Twelver Shiites believe in a continuous line of 12 imams, all regarded as descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.

The Druze are a minority offshoot of Islam with followers in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Sweida province is predominantly ...

Scholars gather at Imam Reza Shrine to honor Prophet Muhammad’s legacy and affirm Muslim solidarity during final days of ...

The province hosts a significant population from the Baloch ethnic minority, which practises Sunni Islam in a Shiite-majority Iran. On July 26, gunmen stormed a courthouse in the province’s ...

The attack, blamed on the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl, took place at a court building in southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province.