There are concerns about the slow pace of change in the country, with a promised election still months away, a struggling economy and familiar problems persisting.
Many in the capital worry that the secular freedoms they enjoyed under the Assad regime are under threat from the new Islamist government.
A police patrol in the old city of Damascus, Syria, in April. Under the new authorities, some of Syrian society’s most religious people have suddenly come to rule over some of its most socially liberal.
A leader in the conservative party says a measure does not “single anyone out for their beliefs,” but a branch of the far-right Vox party praised it for “banning Islamic celebrations.”
As Zohran Mamdani gets within striking distance of becoming New York’s first Muslim mayor, he is drawing fire from supporters of India’s populist prime minister, who accuse him of being anti-Hindu.
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