Documents released this week by the new government in Syria spur concerns about whether it will seek to impose a conservative Islamic worldview.

The Syrian Free Army "values its partnership with the United States in the fight against ISIS," Colonel Anteri told Newsweek.

All Syrian groups, including women and Kurds, must be involved in the country's transition if Damascus wants European support, Germany's foreign minister said after a closely-watched first meeting with the new de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday.

Syria's foreign minister has told Saudi Arabian officials that the new leadership in Damascus wants to set up a government involving all parts of Syrian society following the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad last month.

The two Mideast powerhouses have been trying to block the rise of Islamist groups in the region for two decades. The rebel takeover in Damascus will test that approach.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a statement pushing the US to leave Syria after the overthrow of Assad.

So is Syria’s largest commercial bank. The Syrian pound has lost 99% of its value since the start of the civil war in 2011. At 13,000 pounds to the dollar (see chart 1), a quick trip to the market requires bags full of banknotes.

Syria’s new government is facing backlash after announcing changes to the school curriculum, including introducing what some critics say is an Islamist slant to teaching.

Their destination was a mountain in the Masyaf area in western Syria, roughly 125 miles from Israel’s northern border. The choppers carrying the troops from the Shaldag special forces unit flew at an unusually low altitude over the Mediterranean to evade ...

The top diplomats from Germany and France were in Syria on Friday to send what the German minister called a clear signal that Europe and Syria can have a “political new beginning" after Islamist insurgents ousted Bashar Assad.

Syria's new administration has imposed restrictions on Lebanese crossing their shared border into Syria, a Lebanese security official and a Syrian official said on Friday.