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

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during ...

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

The Israeli military said Wednesday it launched a “limited ground operation” to retake part of a key corridor that bisects northern Gaza from the south. The assault into the Netzarim corridor ...

In addition to around 140 killed in apparent revenge attacks, the dead include at least 50 from government forces and 45 ...

Syria's fragile transition from decades of Assad family brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a serious challenge to the new leadership led ...

The Israeli military says it launched a “limited ground operation” to retake part of a key corridor that bisects northern ...

Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria's coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings ...

Iran has grappled with a series of setbacks. Hamas and Hezbollah, Tehran’s long-standing nonstate regional allies, have been ...

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