Pakistan - its people and the succession of leaders that have governed the country over the last almost eight years - can take pride in the fact that the country is unique in one important aspect in ...

A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, ...

The Sunni Taliban in Pakistan draw support for Afghanistan. The Pashtun population is divided between the two countries, with more living on the Pakistani side of the border. Iran's Shia state has ...

The UK must abandon the dangerous belief that critiques of radical Islamist ideology equate to Islamophobia, instead adopting ...

The man the Observer spoke to is worried about his mother, who is still trapped in Afghanistan. She has long been his ...

Saudi Arabia hosts U.S. and Ukraine talks to resolve tensions after Zelenskyy’s Oval Office argument with Trump, aiming to ...

Hassan Suleiman huffed in the morning sun, sweating despite the ice-cold water running up to his shins under the weight of ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Drawing on interviews with seven survivors ... loyalists staged a bloody ambush on forces aligned with Syria’s new Sunni Islamist government on March 6 in what appeared to be a coordinated ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

That's reasserted the role the kingdom long has perceived itself as having — being the leader of the Sunni Muslim world ... Hosting Russia-U.S. talks, possibly drawing Trump to the kingdom ...