Mr Sharaa’s drive for integration is not unprecedented. Bosnia granted citizenship to hundreds of jihadists who fought for it ...

Turkey has urged Syrian armed groups it supports to integrate into the national army to maintain order. Turkey's foreign ...

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to begin lifting sanctions on Syria, but insist that the measures should be reimposed if they see any abuses by the country's new rulers.

Riad Sattouf, 46, born to a French mother and Syrian father, has sold more than three million copies of his autobiographic ...