(The Guardian)- Pity the luckless children of Aleppo. If only the bombs raining down on them, killing their parents, maiming their friends, destroying their hospitals – if only those bombs were British or, better still, American. Then the streets of London would be jammed with protestors...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian news agency TASS photographer, Valeriy Sharifulin, published recently a set of photos taken in regime-controlled areas of Aleppo, Damascus and Palmyra. Sharifulin revealed through his commentary on the photos-probably without knowing-...

By Burhanettin Duran (The Daily Sabah)- Having launched operation Euphrates Shield on Aug. 24, Turkey not only helped the Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberate Jarablus but also became directly involved in the Syrian civil war. After years of futile negotiations with Turkey's allies over a...

By Adnan Abdelrazak (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since Turkey changed its policy towards Syria the revolution, from threats and the possibility of reaching a confrontation for the sake of Syrians freedom and to bring al-Assad down, even if through the military branches inside, to the “more than friends”...

By Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition has since the beginning of the Syrian revolution been disappointed by the Russian supportive attitude from the Syrian regime and ignoring the opposition demands in all meeting together. At the beginning, Burhan Ghalioun met with...

Syrian rebels killed a senior Hizballah leader on Monday as they led a failed assault on a regime barracks in Aleppo, according to a source in the Army of Conquest military operations room. The source told The New Arab that a Hizballah commander was killed as rebels attempted to take control...

Writing by Pilot Colonel Ismail Ayoub (Zaman al-Wasl)- What the Syrian resistance factions did in south Aleppo cannot be considered a surprise attack or in the absence of time or place. Nor a lethal weapon was used to seal the battle. What happened in the south of Aleppo was an attack prepared...

By Hind Kabawat (Huffington Post)- Violence in conflict does not discriminate. Men, women and children suffer from starvation, bombings, forced disappearances and torture. They equally experience traumatic loss when driven out of their homes. This is the case in Syria, where men and women...

Reporting by Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- The word secret spread adopted by Le Monde, the French newspaper, to describe tbe the agreement between Ankara and Washington regarding the current battles in Manbij and its surrounding areas which Mevlut Cavusoglu, the...

Writing by Adnan Abdelrazak; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)-The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday Turkey is determined to give Turkish citizenship to Syrian refugees’ resident in its territories, and that the possibility of giving citizenship to the...

By Adnan Abdelrazak (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey zero problems times’ designed by Ahmad Davutoglu as chancellor and implement by President of Government Erdogan until 2012 have finished. Now, there is different time with different men. What happened after the Syrian revolution is different from...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition scene was busied following the Russian minister of defense’s Sergey Shoygu’s visit with targeting al-Assad’s status, which is decreasing anyway, by describing him as lacking in sovereignty,...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The war on al-Fallujah is complicated and holds particular symbolism, on the surface a war of trickery controlled by excuses and an ideological and sectarian war when read between the lines.  It is a righteous war where the nullification of...

Writing by Abdul Monem Halabi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- A significant difference in the exchange rate of the U.S dollar against the Syrian pound has been remarked in besieged areas, where the Lira seems to be in better value. There are many reasons behind the better value of the...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- The sectarian discourse was never absent from regime media outlets. The regime media in its discourse hid a provocative sectarian discourse and it appears on the surface whenever a civilian Alwaite is killed or when the regime orders so. When the Zara village in southern...

(Eqtsad)- In truth it is not a cross road, but only one road and obligatory direction… it is depreciation. But the question which occupies everyone’s mind today is, “what is the speed of the depreciation? And are we witnessing a complete collapse of the Syrian Pound during a short period of...

  Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- “when the fox is caught, he plays dead,” an expression a colleague on Facebook “made as a special dedication to BBC’s professional consciousness and the English humanitarian consciousness on the eve of their...

By Ali Eid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been five years since the eruption of the Syrian revolution, calling for dignity and democracy, challenging the rule of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. After years of ongoing bloodshed and failing to resolve the conflict, counting deaths...

By Graham E. Fuller (Lobelog)- What does Turkey need to do to overcome its present foreign policy fiasco, one of the worst in modern Turkish history? The irony of all this is that those directly responsible for this mess—the team of Recep Tayip Erdogan (now president) and Ahmet Davutoglu,...

Michael Ignatieff and Leon Wieseltier (Washington Post)- As Russian planes decimate Aleppo, and hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s largest city prepare for encirclement, blockade and siege — and for the starvation and the barbarity that will inevitably follow — it is...