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

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 ...

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 ...

Which brings me to secularism. The moral and logical absurdities the secular world advocates help sustain my faith. I have come to understand the truth in the statement attributed to the British ...

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 ...