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 ...

Following the collapse of the Assad regime, I ended my article last December with the following paragraph: “The new government must represent all Syrians, ...

The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...

The fragile ceasefire has held since it began on Jan. 19, even as Israeli strikes have killed dozens of Palestinians. Israel ...

Since Donald Trump has made overtures to Moscow and JD Vance has proclaimed that free speech is threatened in Europe, the far ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in clashes in the coastal provinces of Syria, according to one war monitoring group.

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days ...

This book is an essential resource for understanding Kissinger’s diplomacy and its lasting impact on the Middle East peace process. It offers an in-depth exploration of his strategies and interactions ...

He is largely unknown within Syria, despite the popularity of his songs. Before the revolution began ... and urban warfare with regime-aligned forces during Syria's civil war. As the pair's renown ...