Syria Has a New Temporary Constitution. Here Are the Highlights.
Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.
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Syria's interim president signed a new constitution. What's next for the country?
The country is trying to move forward following an outbreak of sectarian violence that has killed hundreds of people ...
Syria's Four Wars Explained 14 Years On
Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.
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Syria: Dangling Between the Past, Present and the Future
Following the collapse of the Assad regime, I ended my article last December with the following paragraph: “The new government must represent all Syrians, ...
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Time is running out for Syria’s president
The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...
Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group’s rule for 5 years
Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...
Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...
Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
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 ...
More than 1,000 dead after 2 days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria
A war monitoring group said more than 1,000 were killed in revenge attacks and clashes between Syrian security forces and ...
1,000 dead in Syria in ‘revenge killing’: What led to one of ‘deadliest acts’
The death toll from recent clashes in Syria has surpassed 1,000, with significant casualties among civilians, security forces ...
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745 Alawite civilians killed in by Syria’s security forces, war monitor says
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 ...