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

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

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

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

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

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

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

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

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

Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems ...

Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new authorities led by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.

Hassan Al-Khalaf, a 42-year-old pharmacist who fled to Belgium during Syria's war and attended one of the preparatory committee's sessions last week in Damascus, said he had concerns over how far ...