In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The stunning fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria thrusts several rebel groups ... Sunni Muslim-led entity created after World War I. The sects were often set against each other by the ...

“The whole world should remember that the Syrian people suffered the worst crimes of the 21st century,” a Syrian military photographer and defector – codenamed Caesar – told me in a rare ...