Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

The Arab Ministerial Contact Committee on Syria ... Arab Republic of Egypt, and the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, with the participation of the Foreign Ministers of the United ...

The departure of Assad marks the end of over a half-century of rule by the Alawite Assad family and over 60 years of the secular, Baathist Syrian Arab Republic ... the United States will work ...

A car bomb killed 20 people in northern Syria Monday, authorities said, vowing to punish those behind the attack in an area ...

Official statements from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates ... for assuming the position of president of the Syrian Arab Republic during the transitional period,” said Egyptian ...

Syria’s newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first foreign trip since ...

European and Gulf Arab states share common interests in Syria – they should work closely together to ensure a stable ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Syria’s interim president made his first trip abroad Sunday, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’ shift away from Iran as ...

He will assume the duties of the president of the Syrian Arab Republic and represent the country ... powers from Saudi Arabia and Iran to the United States and Russia and enabled ISIS – for ...

Commander Mazloum Abdi, head of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in ... "We're not asking for secession, but for reinforced administrative autonomy. Rojava must retain its local authority ...