Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham who this week appointed himself president of a transitional government, has packed the new administration with loyalists and has ordered ...

Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village home to members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced on Friday that security forces had arrested a group of former officers responsible for executing prominent religious leader Mohammad Baqir ...

Iraqi officials have arrested five people for involvement in the execution of a prominent Shia cleric and his sister during the brutal crackdown of former dictator Saddam Hussein on religious dissent.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi congratulated Ahmed Al-Sharaa on his appointment as president of Syria during a transitional phase. The new S ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...