The Interim Government has not refused to allocate salaries to the families of Civil Defence martyrs in Aleppo, an opposition senior official told Zaman Alwasl . The official says the government is in process of issuing a new law to guarantee the rights of...

The decision by Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group to join the civil war in neighboring Syria and fight along President Bashar Assad's forces was a historic and moral "mistake" toward the Syrian people, a leading Lebanese politician has said. The harsh criticism by Walid...

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Bashar Assad declared a general amnesty Monday for prisoners in the country, state media reported, less than a week after he was re-elected to another seven-year term amid a bloody civil war. It was not clear how many — if any — prisoners would be...