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

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four ...

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

Still, Syrian Christians are worried, wondering if the new government will target them next. The revenge killings mark the worst violence since the December ouster of Assad. Ahmed al-Sharaa, also ...

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

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

According to MP George Aslan, the presence of a mosque in the village could discourage Syriacs from reclaiming their land.

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his parents’ 10th-floor ...

The Allahabad High Court on February 27 directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to inspect the Sambhal's Shahi Jama Mosque to assess the need for whitewashing and decorative arrangements ...

Working groups met to discuss topics like a new constitution, transitional justice, and Syria’s economic model ... to refugee assistance programs. The White House and Justice Department did ...