Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a ...

The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month have named an Islamist former rebel leader as the ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training ... Although religion has long been listed on identity documents in Syria, it was not usual under Assad to specify the school of thought.

working with Syrian Kurdish allies, defeated the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed “caliphate” and liberated its capital. But the fall of the Assad regime has left Syria at risk of coming ...

The end of more than a decade of civil war in Syria and the fall of the regime of former president Bashar Al Assad have given ...

Syria has demanded reparations from Russia in order to "rebuild trust" after a meeting between Damascus' new administration ...

The U.N. says over half the population -- some 12 million people -- don’t know where their next meal will come from.

References to the pre-Islamic queen of the ancient city ... Western nations to lift crippling sanctions on Syria that targeted the Assad regime. Jazmati, who has written extensively about Sharaa ...

Since the fall of the Assad regime, tensions across the ... The U.S. currently has approximately 2,000 troops stationed in Syria to counter Islamic State fighters, a substantial increase from ...