Headed by a close ally of Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the recently established Office of Tribes and Clans aims to ease tensions within the country’s Sunni majority, divided between former ...

For a long time, the strength of Islamists was measured by how much violence they caused: attacks, land grabs, and the deaths of leaders. That measure doesn’t show the most dangerous things that are ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Haibat al-Halbousi, a member of the Sunni Taqaddum Party, was elected speaker of Iraq’s parliament on Monday during the first session of the legislature’s sixth term, after ...

The Special Investigation Unit, in coordination with the police, raided Qadri House — the Nazimabad residence of Pakistan Sunni Tehreek chief Sarwat Ejaz Qadri — and detained 17 people, including two ...

KOZHIKODE: Sunni scholars are cautioning believers against certain Sufi orders that they claim stand against the basic tenets of Islam and are spreading un-Islamic ideas in the name of Sufism. The ...

Araghchi wished the ambassador success and emphasized the importance of advancing bilateral relations across all areas of mutual interest. Rahimi Jahanabadi has previously served two terms in the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior member of Iraq’s main Sunni Arab party, the Takaddum Front, sparked controversy on Sunday by suggesting that the presidency - traditionally reserved for Kurds - ...

Several Sunni Arab tribes in northeastern Syria, an area that encompasses 30 percent of Syrian territory and is currently under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have ...

The recent sectarian violence shows that the Syrian government and its Turkish backers share a dangerous vision of a Sunni-dominant state. Yet these forces are not impartial arbiters of peace. They ...

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Clashes between local militias and clans in Syria’s Sweida province have killed more than 30 people and injured nearly 100, and government forces were being sent to the area to restore order, ...