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.

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The country is trying to move forward following an outbreak of sectarian violence that has killed hundreds of people ...

Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades.

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 ...

Hamas said Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-national hostages who died in captivity. Hamas did not ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has welcomed the birth of the first foal in the agency's mission to use horses to patrol ...

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

After more than a week of uncertainty amid violent clashes and Israeli strikes, Syria's interim president has signed a ...

Some Westerners see Russia as a place to build a better, more conservative life. Moscow, facing a demographic crisis, is ...