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

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

Outstanding issues between Damascus, the armed Druze groups, and the SDF can likely be resolved through protracted ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

In an interview with Reuters Monday, Sharaa said that “Syria is a state of law.” “The law will take its course on all,” he told Reuters from Damascus. Sharaa blamed the outbreak of ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, Islamist-led government in Damascus and Syria’s hostile neighbor, Israel ...

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, and his son Henry take pictures as they visit the Al-Raqi synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb.

“Islamic terrorism against Israel will have no immunity, neither in Damascus nor anywhere else. We will not allow Syria to become a threat to the State of Israel,” the defense minister ...

The wave of violence that has killed hundreds of civilians across Syria reached the major cities of Damascus and Aleppo on Monday, hours after interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed to bring those ...

"The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent ... to the new government in Damascus, three months after ...

The agreement signed on Monday calls for SDF-controlled border crossings, an airport and oil and gas fields in eastern Syria to become part of the Damascus administration. In his first official ...