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

Syria's new temporary constitution concentrates power in interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hands and fails to include ...

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

A recent explosion of deadly violence and reprisals has raised the pressure on domestic leaders and international allies to ...

The SDC is the political leadership of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which signed a deal with the Damascus ...

The new constitution says Islam is the religion of the country’s president, the same as the previous constitution. The document also believes Islamic jurisprudence is “the main source of legislation” ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while promising to protect the rights of all Syrians for five ...

Syria’s transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a temporary constitution Thursday and declared the start of “a new ...

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a temporary constitution that will be in force for a five-year transitional period, three months after his forces led a lightning offensive that ...

Sharaa, Syria's new leader, signed a constitutional declaring regulating its five-year transitional period and laying out ...