The document enshrines separation of powers and guarantees women's rights, freedom of expression and media freedom.

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, days after Syria’s interim government reached a deal to integrate a U.S backed ...

A United Nations-backed group of human rights experts accused Israel of "disproportionate violence against women and children" during the war against Hamas in Gaza, and accused Israeli security forces ...

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

Oweis said Syrian forces looted hundreds of Christian homes during the assault on Alawite communities between the coastal towns of Tartus and Latakia. Jihadis stormed the home of Oweis’s friend and ...

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

Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an ...

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights ...

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday hailed the start of a "new history" for his country, signing into force a ...

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

Syria's new constitutional declaration maintains Islamic law as central during a transitional period under President Ahmed al ...