Syria is a Sunni-majority country, but its Christian and Muslim minority sects account for between 15 ... heading to Saudi Arabia in likely signal to Iran Iraq arrests former security official ...

The sudden collapse of the long-standing Assad regime in Syria last December unleashed a wave of trouble for most Syrians, ...

J.T. Pinna and wife Kaira Grundig, owners of Half Moon Rondout Cafe in Kingston. Pinna’s podcast reaches millions. (Photo by Rokosz Most) With a glance. With a wince. With a scowl. With a shake of the ...

Iraq’s first census in decades did not reduce citizens to stereotypes of sect or ethnicity. All the better to avoid wars ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Iranian parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stressed on Monday that Tehran and Baghdad were “determined in supporting ...

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...

Women who were once members of a secretive Christian sect in the United States have told the BBC they were coerced by the church into giving up their children for adoption. Hundreds of adoptions ...

The sect’s leader, Brendan Stevens was found guilty of manslaughter for encouraging the father to withhold insulin from his daughter in January 2022. The Saints are a conservative Christian sect ...

Provided the deal is signed, which the official said could be over the coming weeks, it would mark a breakthrough for Iraq, where output has been constrained by years of war, corruption and ...

Amid tensions with Kenya’s ex-deputy president Rigathi Gachagua, the former leader of the outlawed Mungiki sect and his supporters disrupted a prayer gathering in central Kenya that included ...