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

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

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

A war monitoring group said more than 1,000 were killed in revenge attacks and clashes between Syrian security forces and ...

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

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked ... that lifting sanctions before Syria transitions into an inclusive ...

The number of deaths reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) makes the two days of violence some of the deadliest since Syria's conflict began 14 years ago, according to the group.

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war ...

making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria's conflict began 14 years ago. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in addition to 745 civilians killed — mostly ...