Plenty of Sunni returnees fear Mr Assad’s vengeful ... Nor are Lebanon’s Shia overjoyed about going to Syria. Israel suspects some are members of Hizbullah, the Iran-backed Shia militia ...

The Terrorist Organizations listed by the U.S. Department of State include al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Ansaru, Army of Islam, and ...

Israel is currently engaged in multiple conflicts on seven fronts with pan-Shia Islamists in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran, as well as pan-Sunni Islamists including Hamas and numerous ...

After the French had defeated an Arab army in July 1920 and consolidated their control of Syria under the terms ... to religious or ethnic divides, Shia, Sunni and Kurdish. None of them accepted ...

Its ideological fingerprints are all over Syria and Iraq too ... even though they are Sunni who have not accepted its Shia revolution? The answer is simple. The clerical regime asserts it is ...

A neighborhood watch group in a Christian Beirut neighborhood is on the lookout for militant operatives, which could make the ...

the most powerful group in Syria. A great irony lies at the heart of these Shia groups pooling in their resources to end Israeli genocide in Gaza: Hamas in Gaza is true-blue Sunni Akhwan-ul ...

Of all the factors currently tearing the Middle East apart, none is more consequential than the war in Syria ... between the region's Sunni-majority states and Shia-majority Iran.

The Shia generally approve of Hezbollah; the Sunni do not. In recent days ... Hundreds of thousands of them are now returning to Syria, because Lebanon has become unsafe; hundreds of thousands ...

The Shia-Sunni rivalry in religious as well as secular ... and flows of politics –and to recognize Iranian presence in Syria and Lebanon. The specter of Iranian hegemony has been a source ...

On the other hand, many Shia Muslims hold similar resentments toward Sunnis. Sadly, this sectarianism has led to violence in places like Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, where once-peaceful relations ...