Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Sudan’s conflict didn’t break out because of the UAE and Saudi Arabia – but local actors felt able to go to war because of ...

It's been 14 years since the eruption of the nationwide protests in Syria that would devolve into a multisided civil war still raging today across the country. Yet this Saturday marks the first ...

Imam Dr Omar Suleiman is an American Muslim scholar and theologically driven activist for human rights. He is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen ... more Institute for Islamic Research ...

Ramadan is here and you know what comes after – the next 2025 UAE Public Holiday, Eid Al Fitr. The big Eid will be here before you know it and that means days off work for UAE residents. But when is ...

Security forces of the interim Syrian government ride through Latakia on Sunday. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images) When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in ...

A Palestinian man who made antisemitic remarks has been charged with knowingly arriving in the UK without leave, the Home Office says. Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas - also known as Abu Wadee - is ...

A surge of deadly violence in Syria highlights the need to ensure “darker forces” don’t take over the struggling country and worsen conditions inside it, Canada’s new special envoy there says.

Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates of complicity in genocide in a filing at the International Court of Justice, putting the spotlight on the oil-rich monarchy's alleged involvement in a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his ...

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a statement last Thursday through a visiting delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM ...

As we step into 2025, many of us are already looking forward to the first major public holiday of the year – Eid Al Fitr. This Islamic festival not only marks the end of Ramadan but also brings a ...