Over recent months, crippling blows to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have culminated ... have diminished the influence of the "Shia Crescent." Hamas is no longer as strong and credible ...

In Lebanon above all, the true number of Syrian refugees is likely to be ... Syria was considered part of the so-called "Shia Crescent" region, dominated by Iran -- even though three-quarters ...

Syrian authorities have foiled an attempt by ISIL (ISIS) fighters to blow up a revered Shia shrine in a Damascus ... and a Palestinian refugee living in Lebanon. “The shrine they were trying ...

Syrian authorities ... refugee living in Lebanon. Iran-backed guards used to be deployed at the gates of the Sayyeda Zainab mausoleum, Syria’s most-visited Shia pilgrimage site.

First, it is the biggest country on the western side of the Shia Crescent of Power ... weapons delivery into southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights area of Syria. This would have dramatically ...

The new Syrian government announced on Saturday that it had foiled an attack by the Islamic State group (IS) targeting the Sayyida Zeinab Shia shrine in the south of the Syrian capital ...

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, it has sought to expand its influence by creating a “Shia crescent” that includes Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. However, Iran’s ...