President Ahmed al-Shara vowed to be inclusive, but the way crucial decisions have been made has left some Syrians wary.

The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a ...

Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ...

Sharaa, who took the helm after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster last month, has been appointed interim president and tasked with ...

The emir’s trip to Damascus - the first by a head of state since Islamist-led rebels toppled president Bashar al-Assad less ...

Qaeda's Syria branch in an air strike on northwestern Syria on Thursday. The area was the stronghold of interim president ...

For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their ...

Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Koran ...

Uganda's military announces strategic defensive positioning in eastern DR Congo as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seize control of key territories, including Goma. The move comes amid escalating regional ...

Some European Union sanctions against Syria are being lifted, France's foreign minister said ... the head of the U.N.'s refugee agency said. Nearly 30% of Syrians want to go home, up from almost ...

Ayse Barim, a renowned manager of Turkish television stars, has always steered clear of politics, but that did not help her escape prison on charges of "attempting to overthrow the government".

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