The former insurgents on Wednesday also threw out Syria’s constitution, adopted under Assad, saying a new charter would be ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

Sharaa was appointed Wednesday to lead Syria for an unspecified transitional period, and has been tasked with forming an ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.

Syria has demanded reparations from Russia in order to "rebuild trust" after a meeting between Damascus' new administration ...

He had spent the day with the leaders of Syria’s myriad armed factions, trying to persuade them to disband. Over seven weeks after the fall of Damascus, the fate of these groups is still uncertain.

Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions ...

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...

Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a ...

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training ... Although religion has long been listed on identity documents in Syria, it was not usual under Assad to specify the school of thought.