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 ...

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

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

Next month's ballot will also be delayed in the northern Hasaka and Raqqa provinces - parts of which are mostly controlled by ...

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

In just eight months of Sunni Islamist rule in Syria, already three large-scale incidents of sectarian violence have taken ...

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 ...

Reports from inside Suwayda described scenes of unimaginable horror. From the government's perspective the calculus was clear: The Bedouins are Sunni Muslims and therefore considered "believers." ...

The Druze villages in the northern Syrian Hermon, now under Israeli control, are cut off from the world, with their only connection through IDF troops.The post These are the IDF ...