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 ...

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

Sharaa, whose rebel group led the flash offensive that ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, on Thursday signed a ...

The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new ...

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” ...

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 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday approved a draft constitutional declaration that ...

The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) strongly rejected the new interim constitution signed by Syria’s ...