Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime last December, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani has emerged as a key figure in the country, undertaking a series of diplomatic visits to regional and Western capitals. Al-Shaibani, 38, was appointed foreign minister in the transitional...

Syrians across Syria performed the first Eid al-Fitr prayers since the fall of the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad at the end of last year on Monday morning. The Eid prayer was also performed for the first time in the Square of the Unknown Soldier on Mount Qasioun, north of the...

Some residents of the Syrian coastal region have thanked Fadi Saqr, the former commander of the National Defense Militia and one of the most prominent defendants accused of committing war crimes. Saqr is now being presented as the "supervisor of the Civil Peace Committee," after years of...

The Kurdish-led administration in northwestern Syria on Sunday rejected the legitimacy of the new national government formed by the coalition that toppled longtime autocrat Bashar al-Assad in December. “Any government that does not reflect the country’s diversity and plurality cannot...