The travails of three women, 38-year-old Refeyda Zeytun, her sister and mother began at a hospital in Haresta region in the Syrian capital of Damascus, after her mother was injured in an airstrike.  Instead of treating them, they were arrested by Syrian regime forces, on suspicion that...

Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday called on the West to avoid double standards in fighting terrorism in Syria.  Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov said the U.S. was trying to use the "Kurdish factor" to undermine Syrian sovereignty. "The U.S. is trying to...

Two hundred corpses, including those of people believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS) group, were found near the Syrian city of Raqqa, a local official and an activist group said. The mass grave contained the bodies of five men in orange jumpsuits of the kind typically worn by Daesh...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A local delegation representing the Reconciliation committees in western Damascus suburbs held a meeting last week with Bashar al-Assad’s security adviser and the head of the National Security Bureau, seeking to uncover the fate of detainees and to implement the...