Writing by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo city towards the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s appeared like other Syrian provinces a coal burning under the ashes especially after the artillery school incident in 16/06/1979 which led the regime to tighten its grip on every inch of...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Weeks before the eruption of the Syrian revolution the regime’s agents in Lebanon kidnapped four brothers and handed them to Syrian intelligence. Al-Jasim four brothers, Jasim, Shbib, Ali and Haidar, who came from Jarablus northern of Syrian to...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security forces are still detaining the Palestinian Surgeon Dr. Hayel Hamid for the fourth year after arresting him in his clinic in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian Refugees southern of Damascus, and refuse to reveal information about his fate. A...

(BBC)- Nearly 18,000 people died in government custody in Syria in 2011-15, an Amnesty International report says, alleging beatings and rape in prisons. Amnesty says its document includes interviews with 65 "torture survivors", who have described appalling abuse in jails and detention centres....