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A bloc of Syria’s secular-oriented political parties was formed during the Syrian opposition conference in the Lebanese capital Beirut, Syrian opposition figure Louay Hussein told reporters ...

including Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Egypt. Japan and Taiwan are two of the most secular countries in the world.

THE leader of a new Syrian secular opposition group said yesterday that peace talks were unlikely to begin tomorrow for “technical reasons.” Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) co-president Haitham Manna ...

both sacred and secular. When the Smithsonian Folkways record label releases its recordings of Hamacher’s Syrian Orthodox chants, I hope the Smithsonian, or someone, will provide musical ...

“And these women’s vulnerability is transforming society.” In secular Turkey a tidal wave of unaccompanied Syrian women is reviving banned Islamic traditions such as polygamy. In Jordan ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about Black and neurodivergent identity in the workplace. There’s a topic that very few media outlets cover, especially when it ...

Few know the true story behind Syria's support for Kurdish militants fighting Turkey. Turkish academic Behlul Ozkan explains how and why Turkey's pro-military rulers backed an Islamist uprising in the ...

Under Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) rule, Turkey’s standing in the world has ...

Israel also has clashed with Iranian-backed groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, and is facing the possibility ... This system ...