The declaration comes three months after Islamist-led rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad’s repressive government. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Syria's 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,

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.

Sharaa, whose rebel group led the flash offensive that ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that stipulates that

Syria 's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a temporary constitution, in a major development for the country's political landscape. The new constitution, effective for five years, comes three months after al-Sharaa's forces successfully overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government.

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed the start of a "new history" for his country on Thursday, signing into force