With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

A Sunni clergyman says that the support and services provided by the Islamic Revolution for the Sunni community in Iran are ...

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed ...

U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...

Qatar's President Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani made the first official visit to Syria after the interim government was ...

The more concrete evidence of the formation of a distinct community can be traced back to the British colonial period ...

IRGC foreign operations leader Esmail Qaani is being compared to former IRGC Quds force commander Qasem Soleimani, who was ...

Iran, a Shi'a power, has been waging war in both Iraq and Syria against Sunni Arab forces. In Iraq, the Iranian-backed Shi’a militias have fought against IS, as well as committing atrocities ...

Avivi said that Israel was able to destroy Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal by toppling its leadership, making it incapable of ...

Many of the Sunni tribes tolerate or even support AQAP and ISIL. The Iranian smuggling pipeline continues to operate, and the Yemen rebels were able to buy additional weapons from other sources ...

As Syria rises with Turkish-backed forces and Lebanon stabilises, Iran's strategic position in the Middle East weakens ...

Since taking political power in 1979, Iran’s Shia clergy has been supporting the Shia Muslims of Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. This spreading influence has caused concern to the Sunni rulers of Arab ...