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

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women’s rights and freedom of expression during a five-year transitional period ...

According to MP George Aslan, the presence of a mosque in the village could discourage Syriacs from reclaiming their land.

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

Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since ... At first, Wala, a 29-year-old resident of the town, leaped off her bed to the ...

Banias is home to the largest oil refinery in Syria, and the security forces are saying that remnants of the old regime [have ... as he reassured a crowd at a mosque in his childhood neighbourhood ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...