The rules are aimed at "enhancing public safety standards and preserving public decency", state media reports.

Syria's Islamist-led government has decreed that women should wear burkinis or other swimwear that covers the body at public ...

Syrian tourism ministry guidelines call for 'more modest swimwear' on public beaches Official denies any ban on Western swimwear, says decision could be amended by the end of the summer season ...

Syria's new decree will see women wear burkinis or other swimwear that covers the body at public beaches. The interim government says it offers an exception for hotels classed as four stars or ...

DAMASCUS - Syria's Islamist-led government has said women should wear burkinis or other swimwear that covers the body on ...

The decree has sparked concern that Syria’s new government could be veering toward a more strict Islamist governance system.

Syria issued a conservative new dress code Tuesday requiring women to wear burkinis or full-body swimwear on all public ...

but some women do opt for more Western styles of swimwear. The new government previously pledged to govern inclusively. Under the new directive, beachgoers and visitors to public pools must wear ...

Women must wear “burkinis or swimwear that covers ... with the tourism ministry saying “Western swimsuits are allowed” there within the limits of “general morals”. Other private ...

Syria's Islamist-led government has decreed that women wear burkinis or similar modest swimwear at public beaches and pools.

Syria's new Islamist authorities said on Tuesday that women going to public beaches must wear burkinis or other "decent" ...