The document enshrines separation of powers and guarantees women's rights, freedom of expression and media freedom.

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, days after Syria’s interim government reached a deal to integrate a U.S backed ...

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” during the war against Hamas in Gaza,. The report Thursday also accused Israe ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Syria's new constitutional declaration maintains Islamic law as central during a transitional period under President Ahmed al ...

Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Druze communities in its neighbour Syria over the past few weeks, its foreign ministry ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...