Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed off on a constitutional declaration for a five-year-long transitional period ...

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

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

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...