The minister is one of the key figures in the new caretaker government and is close to the country’s de facto ruler Ahmed ...

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...

The fall of Bashar Assad's dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time of hope and fear for Syrians ...

DAMASCUS - Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist ... in light of the Egyptian government's crackdown on ...

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

For many years, Egypt and Syria shared Soviet patronage, briefly formed a short-lived, failed union (the United Arab Republic ...

DAMASCUS - Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

The same sources say, however, that while Cairo has adopted a wait-and-see approach vis-à-vis Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham’s rule in ...

For the Greek Orthodox Christians of Syria like myself, the current crisis revives centuries of trauma. Growing up on the ...

Under the UAE's counter-terror measures, individuals and organisations linked to the listed groups are subject to travel bans ...