Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

President Joseph Aoun summoned jurist Nawaf Salam on Monday to designate him as Lebanon's prime minister, after a majority of ...

Salam won support from 84 of Lebanon's 128 parliamentarians, among them leading Christian and Druze factions and prominent ...

Aoun has called on him to form the new government. Salam’s support spans Christian and Druze factions, along with prominent Sunni Muslim MPs. This includes both Hezbollah allies and critics who ...

Salam won backing from Christian and Druze factions, and prominent Sunni Muslim MPs, including Hezbollah allies and opponents of the group who have long demanded it give up its powerful arsenal ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

He won support from 84 of Lebanon's 128 parliamentarians, among them leading Christian and Druze factions and prominent Sunni Muslim lawmakers, including Hezbollah allies. But Hezbollah and its ...

As part of their "divide and conquer" policy, the French split local Alawite and Druze minorities from the Muslim majority and, in 1922, established a legally autonomous state for Alawites.

Like Syrian Kurds, Hekmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze, a sect considered heretics by mainstream Islam, vowed that the group would not surrender its arms until the nature of the ...