Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that puts the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase. Sharaa said he hoped the ...

Assad is an Alawite. Most of Syria’s insurgent groups now running the country are Sunnis, but the presence of members of minority sects, including one woman and members of minority sects ...

Ms. Hall is a senior fellow with the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Four months after the euphoria that marked the sudden ouster of Bashar al-Assad ...

Image Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, speaking on Saturday in Damascus. He had been under pressure from Western countries and Syria’s civil society to form an inclusive government.