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

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ...

According to MP George Aslan, the presence of a mosque in the village could discourage Syriacs from reclaiming their land.

Sharaa, called for national unity Sunday, describing the outbreak of violence between government forces and supporters of ...

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

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in ... Earlier on Sunday, he spoke at a Damascus mosque, acknowledging the severity of the crisis and calling for national unity.

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 ...

Hundreds of civilians were killed in coastal areas after deadly clashes broke out. Read more at straitstimes.com.