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Corruption swallowed heavy weapons factory in Mesyaf: source

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Corruption continues to be spread in the Syrian army facilities to reach Factory 794 after Factory 793, to turn from heavy weapons manufacturing into scrap. The factory is located near the village of Zawi near Mesyaf city in al-Ghab Plain. The factory of Zawi...

Corruption undermines regime's weapon factories

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The story of Factory 793 for small and light weapons is evidently very telling of the Syrian regime’s failure to acquire the minimum scientific sophistication and progress like its supporters claim it does. A well-informed source attributed this to...

Assad's brother has own prison where hundreds hanged, slaughtered: report

(Zaman Al Wasl)- There exists, in a country which Bashar al-Assad decided to turn into a private farm and under the control of an army driven by gangster laws, a prison no less cruel and brutal than dozens of other prisons and detention centers. Zaman al-Wasl puts in the hands of...

Detainees: more about Eli Cohen's Hunter

By Faris al-Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- In room 203 of al-Assadi Hospital in Damascus, Major Mohammed Wadud al-Bashir, who is also known as the hunter of the Israeli spy Eli Cohen in 1965, has died on the afternoon of November 22, 1989. His body was taken to his hometown in...

Father and Son: two Frenchmen tortured to death by Assad regime

A relative of one of the two Syrian-French torture victims, Mazen Dabbagh, the pedagogical counselor of the French School of Damascus, and his son Patrick Abdelkader, revealed some episodes of the tragedy of those victims with the torturers of the regime. The tragedy...

Syrian Navy: corrupt officers, black deals

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained exclusive reports leaked by group of army officers, who still in duty showing how the corruption has swept the Syrian navy. Since the established of Syrian navy in 1950, no role has been remembered as its role in bombing the Syrian people over the...

In the vicinity of Assad's Palace, Chemical Facility, Secret Prison: Data, Images

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al well-informed source, close to the regime, has revealed the existence of a secret prison, that was established during the early years of Bashar al-Assad's reign in 2000, in the vicinity of the presidential palace, “The People’s Place”, which is the regime's largest...

101 Syrians stripped of citizenship: Intelligence data

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 101 Syrians, including women, have been deprived of Syrian citizenship for unknown reasons, the leaked Intelligence archive showed. Examining documents of 1.7 million archive that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed that tens of Syrians were stripped of their...

Aboutaam Brothers: Traders of Antiquities and Blood- Part Two

In the first part of this survey, we have showed what proves that the Aboutaam brothers, the world's greatest antique dealers, have been clearly involved in the smuggling of Syrian antiquities for at least 16 years. We linked this evidence which is included in the documents of Zaman al-Wasla...

Exclusive: two Lebanese antiquities dealers loot Syrian history, artefacts

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained official information reveals how two Lebanese figures with Hezbollah ties have been looting Syrian antiquities,during and before the Syrian revolution erupted seven years ago. The investigative report...

Syrian navy trained Hezbollah how to fire anti-ship Yakhont missiles on Israel: sources

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian navy officers trained members the Lebanese Hezbollah militia how to fire the Russian anti-ship Yakhont missiles between 2012 and 2014, after Israeli reports surfaced last year saying that the Iranian proxy is believed to have obtained up to eight Yakhont...

Syrian Air Force bans Iranians from using airports hangars: source

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Air Forces banned the Iranian forces and allied Shiite militias from using its facilities and hangars in most of its military airbases, such a move followed a series of Israeli strikes in the last few weeks amid rising tensions between Iran and Israel, well-informed...

Iran spending in Syria surpasses domestic spending: report

By Farsi al-Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- A video produced by the Iranian opposition group “People’s Mujahidin of Iran” has shed light on the expenses spent by Mullah’s regime in Iran on the war in Syria to support the survival of the Syrian regime. The video report...

Syrian refugee children convert to Christianity, Lebanese Priest involved

(Zaman Al Wasl- Ethar Abdul Haq)- It never crossed the famous Lebanese media figure Tony Khalife that he will contribute to formulating a proactive official Christian answer that would forbid what a well-known Lebanese priest named Madji Allawi was trying to accomplish by...

Profile of Assad's man who tried to divert OPCW's Douma chemical probe

- He called for an agreement that outlaws chemical terrorism 20 years ago, but he added a notable exception. - From the UN to Brazil, and then the Hague. Undoubtedly A long journey during which he dedicated himself to serve the father and the son. - In the Netherlands, he found...

Israel uses U.S. 'smart bombs' in pounding Iranian sites in Syria: images, source

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Special photos and a military source revealed that Israel has used GBU-39, the U.S. ‘smart bombs’ in Monday’s overnight attack on Iran-run base in central Syria after being used for the first time on April 9 against the Iranian T-4 air base. ...

Israel used US smart bombs 'GBU-39' in T4 strike: images, source

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source in the Syrian Air Force revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that Israel had used US advanced ‘smart missiles’ in the April-9 airstrikes on the Iranian-held T-4 air base in Syria. The two Israeli F-15 warplanes used GBU-39 Small Diameter...

Russian navy used Syrian frigate as live target in Feb manoeuvres: source

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A footage obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed Russian fighter jets practicing live manoeuvres against Syrian frigate in front of Tartus coast. A well-informed source in the Syrian Navy said the Russian Navy based in Tartus base asked the regime to use one of...