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

The recent violence in Syria's coastal region represents a significant threat to the country's political transition. The post ...

an ideological offshoot of the Afghan Taliban, and the separatist Baloch Liberation Army emerging as the deadliest outfits. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Afghanistan ...

The Palestinian militant group said in a statement Friday it has accepted a new proposal by mediators of the Israel-Hamas ...

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four ...

Even the western coastal homelands of Assad and his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite ... Russia has also joined the United States in pushing the United Nations to address the violence sweeping ...

The Druze religious sect began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism ... Israel of sexual and gender-based violence in Gaza A United Nations-backed group of human rights experts accused Israel ...