Vendors display traditional pickles and sweets as residents shop for breakfast, known as Iftar, on the first day of Ramadan, ...

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

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

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

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

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 ...

Forces loyal to Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad had ... Then, cameras still in tow, Sharaa went to the city’s historic Umayyad mosque to announce that, after 14 years of war, Assad’s ...