Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Local sources said a Lebanese military checkpoint had arrested the Syrian journalist and activist Anas Idrees known on social media as Ahamd al-Qusaiyr. The sources said Ahmad has a valid legal status. Al-Qusaiyr is the spokesman of the General...

The only way into rebel-held parts of Aleppo was cut Thursday by a Syrian government advance that put the road within firing range, two rebel sources and a group monitoring the conflict said, in effect putting some 250,000 people living there under siege. Rebel groups were waging a fierce...

 Two Syrians accidentally blew themselves up while handling explosives in a house in the southern Turkish border town of Reyhanli, the privately owned Dogan news agency said Thursday. A woman who was at the scene at the time of the blast late Wednesday was later detained by police, Dogan...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- militants of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have before Eid al-Fitr arrested 4 Arabic women belong to revolutionary families In the Eastern countryside of Ras al-Ain in Hasaka province.  Local sources reported that  an...