By bnm Gulf bureau Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a draft constitutional declaration, making him president of Syria for a five-year transitional period, state media reported on March 13. The committee tasked with drafting the constitutional declaration has granted the new Syrian president the authority to declare a state of emergency,

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Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare photograph of him as a child, found in a dossier compiled by Assad’s intelligence services, Sharaa has the same unsmiling, enigmatic expression he is often seen wearing today.

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed the start of a "new history" for his country on Thursday, signing into force a constitutional declaration regulating its five-year transitional period and laying o

Syria's new constitutional declaration maintains Islamic law as central during a transitional period under President Ahmed al-Sharaa. It ensures women's rights and freedom of expression. The declaration marks a shift from the former constitution and supports an inclusive governance approach,

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase

Religious and ethnic minorities, as well as the US and Europe, are wary about freedom of expression protections

Syria's interim President Ahmad Al Shara on Thursday signed the country's constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period. Mr Al Shara said he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the start of "a new history for Syria,