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

Musalsalat, Syrian dramatic miniseries, have long been a medium for bold socio-political commentary in the Middle East. This ...

On top of all this, the Syrian people are getting frustrated. Electricity supply is limited to a few hours a day. An influx ...

As pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon, Syrian security forces were directed to keep communication devices away ...

Syria's interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase. The country's interim rulers have ...

A few days ago, 48-year-old Johnny S., a Greek Orthodox Christian from Syria, found the courage to leave his home in Latakia, ...

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

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

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

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...