After 14 years of brutality under former president Bashar al-Assad ... the song "I am an Arab Muslim," which surged in popularity post-Assad. It glorifies the Umayyad Caliphate, invoking battles ...

a moderate Muslim cleric known for having opposed now ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad, as the country's grand mufti. "Today, this position is held by one of the finest scholars" in Syria, Sharaa said ...

Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as ...

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver ... that the president must be a Muslim. It also guarantees freedom ...

Confetti and flowers are dropped from a military helicopter onto a crowd during a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the victory of rebel forces over Bashar al-Assad's army in Idlib ...

The government that was announced ahead of Eid el-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of the Muslim ... Mohammed al-Bashir, who has headed Syria’s interim government since Assad’s fall, was ...