The minister is one of the key figures in the new caretaker government and is close to the country’s de facto ruler Ahmed ...

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...

Mansour, has posted several videos saying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would meet the same fate as Assad.

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

Mansour, known for threats against Egypt's government. His arrest may ease Cairo's anxiety over the rise of Hayat Tahrir ...

Awda's rising profile and growing ties with Arab states that oppose Syria's new Islamist rulers make him a threat?

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

For many years, Egypt and Syria shared Soviet patronage, briefly formed a short-lived, failed union (the United Arab Republic ...

The same sources say, however, that while Cairo has adopted a wait-and-see approach vis-à-vis Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham’s rule in ...

Yvette Cooper’s ‘sprint’ review will look at the rise of Islamist and far-Right extremism, taking over from Michael Gove’s ...

Former HTS member Ahmed al-Mansour had launched a social media campaign from Syria calling for the overthrow of Egypt's ...