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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Canada will ease financial sanctions on Syria and appoint an ambassador, signaling support for Damascus' interim government ...