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At historic Aleppo hotel, nostalgia for a Syria lost

On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner's widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria. Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the Baron played host to adventurers, writers, kings, aviators, Bedouin chiefs and presidents...

Assassinations track rebel commanders in Dumeir town

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent military figures were targeted by the assassination during a period of 10 days amid clear incompetence in identifying the perpetrators in Dumeir where resistance has captured the city in northern Damascus countryside recently. In this regard, Saad al-Haj,...

Squeezed in Raqa, IS jihadists ramp up counter-attacks

As Islamic State group fighters steadily lose chunks of their Syrian bastion Raqa to a US-backed force, the jihadists are ramping up the ferocity of their counter-attacks. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) first broke into Raqa in early June and have advanced in a pincer-like motion towards...

6000 Syrians forcibly displaced from Arsal to Idlib

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The number of Syrian refugees wishing to accompany Tahrir al-Sham from Irsal to the north of Syria, reached 6000 refugees including 50 families from the border town of Arsal, spokesman said.  While the number of Syrians wishing to accompany the faction of...