The flag was dropped when Syria joined Egypt to create the United Arab Republic in 1958. The myriad of rebel groups and opposition leaders who toppled the Assad regime have rallied under the ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little more than masks for clans and tribes. Disillusioned, many intellectuals and ...

Syria’s new three-star, tricolor flag flew next to Saudi Arabia’s own at the airport as al-Sharaa in a suit and tie walked off the plane. He later met with a smiling Saudi Crown Prince ...

Syria's interim president made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus' shift away from Iran as its main regional ally. Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was ...