Syrian authorities said on Thursday that security forces seized 600,000 Captagon pills that were to be smuggled into Iraq, in a rare raid on the narcotics trade dominated by Iran-backed groups, as ...

The Bureau of Consular Affairs amends its notarial rules to reflect that the Director, Deputy Directors, and regional Division Chiefs of the Office of American Citizens Services and Crisis Management, ...

The Alawite, another minority community, and the Druze received their own territories ... Like Turkey, Israel was established in the shadow of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of 700,000 ...

State media quoted a military official as saying the overnight attack wounded two civilians and “caused material damage to private property”. The official did not identify the target. Latakia is near ...

A bloody conflict ran from 1976 to 2015 between the Alawite Shia sect of the Jabal Mohsen area, supported by Hezbollah, and the Sunnis of Bab el Tebbane in the suburbs of Tripoli. Then the Syrian ...

The civil war in Syria (2011-20), a Sunni majority country, ruled by a clique of Alawite minority, a splinter group of Shias, put a strain on Hezbollah’s Islamist commitments. As the civil war in ...

It helped stop rebels from Syria’s majority Sunni population from overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is part of the country’s Shiite-derived Alawite minority. The IRGC also provided ...

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey. He oversaw a series of sweeping reforms to modernize the country and transform it into a secular, democratic state. The Turkish War of ...

Iranians, while happy to see Al-Quds work with Shiite militias to fight Islamic State, were less keen on the IRGC’s obsession with attacking (and provoking) Israel and the US or building some ...

It collaborated with other non-state actors like Hamas and Houthis to reinforce the strength of the Iran ... and Shia (31 per cent), along with a lesser percentage of Alawite, Ismail and Druze ...

The Alawite community, making up roughly 12% of Syria’s population, has historically faced marginalization and persecution, which shaped its distinct cultural and religious identity. Since the start ...