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

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

A series of violent clashes in Syria points to both the lingering Russian and Iranian presence in the country, as well as the ...

On March 6, armed fighters loyal to former Syrian president Bashar Al Assad launched an attack on Syria's interim-government ...

Many thought they were designed to provide the Alawites with the underpinnings of an alternative state in case Syria broke up ...

Hundreds of people were killed and residents of Syria’s coastal governorates are scared to leave home. The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Up to one million desperate Syrians living in camps and displacement sites across the country’s northwest intend to return ...

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

Tel Aviv targeting more areas in southern Syria while lobbying world powers to keep central government in Damascus weak, ...