Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Gen. Mazloum Abdi make an odd couple. Abdi is a Kurdish rebel leader whose secular army boasts all-women units and fights alongside the U.S. military. Sharaa, ...

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

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

When new rulers with jihadi roots took power in Damascus, artists, singers and dancers held their breath. They can relax, the ...

Between March 6 and 10, government crackdowns on supporters of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime resulted in ...

Druze religious elders from Syria visited Israel for the first time in over 50 years, highlighting Israel's support for the ...

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

Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says - Iraqi Prime Minister Minister ...

Down a winding, stone-gray alleyway in Damascus’s ancient city center, a small door opens to a large, sunny atrium. Inside, ...

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, the deadliest eruption of violence since the fall of the Assad regime in December. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

By Euan Ward and Raja Abdulrahim Euan Ward reported from Beirut, Lebanon, and Raja Abdulrahim from Aleppo, Syria. Violence between government security forces and gunmen loyal to the ousted regime ...

Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems ...