(Zaman Al Wasl) On the 21st of August 2013 at 2:31 am while the people of al-Ghouta were sleeping, the field hospitals prepared for the wounded after the bombing of several cities and towns and usually the civil defense is on alert to remove bodies from under the rubble, but this time the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two arrest warrants for Syrian actor Maxim Khalil and his wife were issued by General Intelligence and Political Security branches. Maxim , born in 1978 in Damascus, told Zaman al-Wasl he and his wife take pride in being listed as wanted by regime security branches. The...

The response was immediate and unequivocal: Weeks after the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and mere days after popular protests spread across Egypt, Syria’s president insisted his country would not be next. Assad claimed his regime was ‘very closely linked...

After a period of muted tensions between Qatar on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the other, conflict publicly surfaced once the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain decided to recall  their ambassadors from Doha. Kuwait and Oman declined to follow suit. Though...