He called for immediate intervention by “ international forces to maintain peace and prevent the continuation of these crimes ”.... Israel has ramped up its support for Syria’s Druze, with Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Thursday urging the international community to “ fulfil its role in protecting the minorities in Syria — especially the Druze — from the regime and its gangs of terror ”.... “ The government( should) protect its people, ” he said. Published in Dawn, May 2nd, 2025....

The incident spiralled when a Maghdouche resident filed a complaint to police after being injured during a dispute over fuel on Friday and police visited Ankoun to investigate. Villagers blocked roads and burnt trees and troops were deployed, the source said.... The financial meltdown has been compounded by political paralysis, the country being without a government since the last one resigned in the aftermath of last year's Beirut port blast.... Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, the thir

BEIRUT( AP)--He was only a year old when his panicked father picked him up and they fled with his mother from the gunfire rattling their neighborhood.... Now 47, Bahij Dana did the same thing last week.... He evacuated his wife and two of his kids as gun battles raged for hours outside the same building....

1, 2023, 12: 27 p.m.ET In the early hours of Monday, on a train bound for Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, a police officer took up his service rifle, fatally shot his superior and then killed three unarmed passengers.... The rally, which a Hindu vigilante wanted in the murders of several Muslims had promised to join, dissolved into street fighting, which then gave way to a full-blown riot that spread toward Delhi.... Although religious identity has played a lesser role in the fighting ther

and incitement to sectarian strife over fatal clashes this month in Beirut, Lebanon's National News

" We are greatly concerned when any U.S. citizen is harmed overseas, wherever they are.... In one video, the soldiers are seen talking to each other.... On Wednesday, the friend, who only wants to be identified as Omar, heard from other family members that Hosam and the others had been taken from their home by government forces. Saraya's mother was left in their ransacked home, Omar said....

by Dalia Dassa KayeFor all the talk of sectarianism, state competition drives Middle East dynamics

This Perspective presents scenarios for sectarian relations in the Middle East out to 2026.... The

have serious repercussions as other sectarian outfits would also demand the same gesture.... “ Now

A Sinn Fein minister has dismissed as “ farcical ” claims she has adopted a sectarian approach to