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

Hundreds of civilians have been killed since March 6 as Syria's security forces battled armed supporters of former Syria ...

Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up the road from ...

One might think that from Israel’s point of view, the collapse of the Assad regime would be seen as a positive development ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...

Violence has surged again in the predominantly Alawite coastal region of Syria. The newly formed General Security Forces (GSF ...

Authorities have not provided a toll, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor put the number of dead at 1,383 ...

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

Armed men stormed the home of Noureddine al-Labbad in the town of Al-Sanamayn, opening fire on him and his brother before fleeing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

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

Mass killings on Syria's coast target Alawites, leaving more than 1,200 dead. Survivors and rights groups recount the ...