Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.
The country is trying to move forward following an outbreak of sectarian violence that has killed hundreds of people ...
Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.
Following the collapse of the Assad regime, I ended my article last December with the following paragraph: “The new government must represent all Syrians, ...
The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...
Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...
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 escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days ...
A war monitoring group said more than 1,000 were killed in revenge attacks and clashes between Syrian security forces and ...
The death toll from recent clashes in Syria has surpassed 1,000, with significant casualties among civilians, security forces ...
745 civilians belonging to Syria’s Alawite minority have been killed in execution-style by the country’s security forces and their allies in the past two days, a war monitor said Saturday. Witnesses ...