The rebel flags are currently flying high across the country, and have replaced the posters of Mr Assad, which loomed throughout the streets of Damascus. And it is not only in Syria that the ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

(AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) Ammunition that belonged to the the Assad government sits in a pile at a military headquarters, in ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year. But armed ...