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

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

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

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad has escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

The Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led coalition that joined with U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State terrorist group, has agreed to integrate with the same interim Syrian government ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists ... Ali Sheha, a 57-year-old resident of Baniyas who fled with his family and neighbors hours after the ...