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

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights and freedom of expression during a five-year transitional period, according ...

The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...

The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.

The Canadian government said it is providing C$84 million in new funding for humanitarian assistance to Syria.

Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of Assad. There was something ...

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

Researcher and author Diana Darke argues that the connections between Islamic and Christian cultures during the medieval period were stronger than commonly believed. This cross-fertilization of ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

Survivors have shared harrowing accounts of the violence, describing scenes of mass executions and widespread destruction.

Al Joulani, the rebel leader who took over Syria, has had a sulphurous career, to say the least. Today, he tries to appear ...

Clashes in several coastal cities between Syrian security forces and Assad loyalists pose the first major security challenge ...