Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

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Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights ...

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, signed Thursday the country's constitutional declaration that will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period.

Delil SOULEIMAN Syria's new temporary constitution concentrates power in interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hands and ...

Syria's interim president yesterday signed a temporary ... on Thursday that the document holds over some provisions from the previous constitution, including the stipulation that the head of ...

Syria has issued a constitutional declaration that guarantees women's rights and freedom of expression during a five-year transitional period.

Abu Khadijah was identified using DNA testing which had been collected during a previous raid which he ... The relationship between Iraq and Syria is somewhat fraught after the fall of former Syrian ...

Syria’s newly approved constitutional declaration, meant to govern the country’s transitional phase, concentrates power in ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution ... told a news conference Thursday that it would maintain some previsions from the previous one, including ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary ... Thursday that it would maintain some previsions from the previous one, including the stipulation that the head of state has to ...