(Zaman Al Wasl)- Raed al-Fares and Hamoud Junaid, two Syrian pro-democracy activists and citizen journalists, were shot dead Friday by Syria's former al-Qaeda branch in the village of Kafrabel in northern Idlib province.  Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by formerly-known...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian forces arrested senior Daesh (ISIS) commanders in eastern Deir Ezzor province, activists said Thursday. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces backed by the US Army have raided the villages of al-Buhaira and al-Tayyaneh near al-Hajin town. Three...

Nearly eight years into the Syrian war, Selim still refuses to perform his military service, just like many fellow Druze from Swaida province rejecting the regime’s conscription call. “I don’t want to get involved in the Syrian bloodbath,” said the 27-year-old, who gave a pseudonym for...

The United States has moved to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that it said had sent millions of barrels of oil to Syria as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to indirectly fund Hamas and Hezbollah. The complicated arrangement, described by the U.S. Treasury in a statement Tuesday,...