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

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated ...

Israel said that it was willing to defend Syria's Druze community following days of violence in Syria that a war monitor said ...

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 ...

Mr Assad is an Alawite, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam ... a move that has not been recognised by most countries or the United Nations. Many Syrian Druze have family in the Golan Heights.

At the United Nations in New York ... The attacks spiralled into revenge killings against Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam that is the faith of some of Assad’s most ardent supporters and ...

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

The Druze, who practice an offshoot of Islam, are a minority group in Syria as well as Israel. Syria has demanded Israel withdraw its forces from the country. The United Nations says Israel's move ...

The attacks spiraled into revenge killings against Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that ... came to the assistance of security forces. United Nations rights chief Volker Turk said Sunday ...