Iraq shifted its approach to the crisis in Syria, signalling a significant departure from its traditionally neutral stance.

The advancing Islamist rebels in Syria's north have vowed to respect ethnic and religious groups under their rule. Observers, ...

Ayatollah Mohseni Qomi, the deputy for International Affairs of the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran, has met with Sheikh ...

Iraq will not act as a mere spectator in Syria where it believes groups and sects are victims of ethnic cleansing, Iraq's ...

In part, nationalism was the product of brutal wars between Christian sects in Europe. This triggered the need to organise what were clubbed as ‘nations’ in a more rational manner, by furnishing a new ...