Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) condemns civilian massacres in Syria by Islamist forces targeting Alawites, Christians, and Shias. IMSD ca ...

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

Women have no rights in Saudi Arabia. As Rahaf puts it, in Saudi “a woman is a nullity.” It’s hard to overstate the level of ...

Still, Syrian Christians are worried, wondering if the new government will target them next. The revenge killings mark the worst violence since the December ouster of Assad. Ahmed al-Sharaa, also ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

Woman’s Hour live from Albert Square, as part of the EastEnders 40th anniversary.

Syria's fragile transition from decades of Assad family brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a serious challenge to the new leadership led ...

Some observers call recent massacres of Alawites and civilians the worst in Syria's 14-year-old civil conflict ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

They are thrilled at the death of the Alawites, the same tribe from which came the Assad family. Western governments ostensibly should have demanded fair trials for any Alawite who was involved in the ...

On International Women’s Day (8 March), that is the bold call for action for all women and girls worldwide. As we mark the 30th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the world is ...