Syrian Alawites, linked by religion with deposed president Assad, make surprising use of biblical characters. This is a three-part series about the Alawite sect in Syria and the March massacre in its ...

* Police, immigration officers question 600 sect members * Sect leader denies opposed to Western education * Foreigners to be deported (Adds background, quotes) By Joy Simon MINNA, Nigeria, Aug 16 ...

In its latest restriction on religious freedom, the Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education has ordered all private universities in Afghanistan to remove religious books that do not conform to the ...

An Islamic sect whose leader claims to be the new Pope and whose followers say he can perform 'miracles' is operating out of a heavily-guarded former orphanage in Cheshire. Abdullah Hashem Aba ...

MAKKAH — The global conference titled “Building Bridges between Islamic Schools of Thought and Sects” officially opened Sunday, under the auspices of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.

MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia — In an unprecedented gathering near the Sacred House of Allah, the King of Saudi Arabia, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, hosted the Global Conference for Building Bridges ...

Angry supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist political party, throw stones towards police firing tear gas to disperse them, at a protest against the arrest of their leader Saad ...

The Middle East was never known to be a land of peace and stability, and lately, the ranging wars throughout the continent have submerged the media with daily headlines and disruptive trade and ...

Christian Avard for Raw Story reports: Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming President George W. Bush was unaware that there were two major sects of Islam just two months before the ...

MINNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Police in the western Nigerian state of Niger have raided an Islamic community and detained hundreds of its members, weeks after an uprising by a radical sect killed almost ...