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

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

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 ...

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

The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the ... from which the square minaret model spread to all parts of Syria, North Africa and Andalusia.

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 ...

Rebuilding Syria will take years and billions of dollars. The first step is stabilizing the economy and improving the living ...

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

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 ...