Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been declared president for the transitional phase on January 29, Syrian state media reported. Sharaa was appointed "as the country's president in the ...

Syria’s former governing party, the Baath, is no more. The party had ruled the country for decades until it was overthrown, along with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on December 8 ...

All remnants of the al-Assad regime will be dissolved, including parliament, Syria’s old constitution, and al-Assad’s Arab Socialist Baath Party. The Baath party, whose stated aim was to unify ...

Mohamed Faroukh, 32, points down his street in the village of al-Baath. About 300 yards away, at an intersection, there's a sand-colored Israeli tank that rolled in a few days earlier.