The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

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

DAMASCUS, 25 February (BelTA - SANA ... The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began in 705 AD by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque ...

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 ...

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.

Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica in a previous life, a Roman temple to Jupiter before that.Credit: iStock For ...

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights ...

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 Syrian regime’s brutal response to protests with bullets set this grim reality in motion: from the very beginning of the Syrian uprising (March 2011) ...

A flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of ...

Survivors have shared harrowing accounts of the violence, describing scenes of mass executions and widespread destruction. "We hid in the bathroom for hours. When we finally ran, the streets were ...