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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Crowds waved flags and chanted in rallies in cities including Damascus and Aleppo to celebrate the victory of rebels in ...

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