Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed off on a constitutional declaration for a five-year-long transitional period ...

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

Major US Sanctions are a major barrier to reconstruction in Syria. With violence erupting on the country’s coast, US ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Faisal Al Kudsi has vivid memories of visiting the Presidential Palace in Damascus when his father, the banker and politician ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase. The ...

Exposing their cruelty may actually bolster their power for a while, by reminding their subjects of the dangers of ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

A legal scholar explains the unusual justification for the Columbia graduate’s arrest, and what it could augur for ...

"The American role was a positive role and in the interest of Syria and the Syrians," an SDF political wing adviser told ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the violence by ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ and expressed support for minority ...

They were heavily involved in revolts against Ottoman and French colonial rule to establish the modern Syrian state. During ...