"Three, two, one, action!" shouts Syrian refugee Mostafa Abdallah, 11, energetically directing his fellow child actors in a musical being filmed in a Palestinian camp in the Lebanese capital. Members of the cast spring into action, belting out a chaotic but charming rendition of a...

( The New Arab )- Refugees fleeing the bloody conflict in Syria are trying to find shelter in any neighbouring countries that could offer tham a haven. And, as unlikely a destination as it may seem, Gaza has become home for families fleeing Assad's war. Dozens of Syrian families have arrived...

( The New Arab )- International efforts to end the Syria war are taking place along two rival tracks, with peace talks due in Geneva on Tuesday overshadowed by a competing process in Astana. Observers say the UN is battling to compete with Astana's momentum after a deal to create four...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians have been killed Monday in the US-led coalition strikes on border town with Iraq, ISIS news agency said. Amaq agency said the deadly strike that hit Albukamal town had also let 35 peple wounded. A nother U.S.-led...

(The Daily Star)- Lebanese General Security on Monday announced the arrest of a Syrian charged with the selling of military weapons and munitions to militants in northeast Lebanon. Following his arrest, the alleged weapons trader, identified by his initials T.Z., admitted to smuggling...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Al-Amal Foundation for People with Special Needs began documenting cases of disability in the western countryside of Aleppo with the aim of developing a database for all the people with special needs in the region. The documentation,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has deployed troops in the Syrian desert along the borderline with Iraq and Jordan due to a Russian demand as fears mount from a Western-backed attack by armed opposition, source said Sunday. The mobilising came as the U.S.-backed...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has stepped up its aerial campaign on northern countryside of Homs Sunday despite a regional deal to de-escalate conflict in Syria last week. At least 8 raids conducted on the  town of Kafrlaha, left 7 people wounded while...

The Syrian army and its allies are on the verge of completely seizing the rebel-held district of Qaboun on the edge of the capital Damascus following over two months of aerial strikes and artillery shelling, rebels and state media said on Sunday. But rebels said they still held a small...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl) several journalist activists work with great caution and absolute secrecy to convey the image of al-Raqqa city to the world via the recently established Free Euphrates network which aims at breaking the Islamic State imposed media blackout on the city....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish militias have intensified aerial bombing on ISIS-held trritories in eastern Syria, killing and wounding dozens amid rise in displacement influx. On Sunday, 30 people, imcludig family members in an-Assadaiya and Ya'rub villages west of Raqqa city,Raqqa...

Syria's government has reached a deal with rebels in the Qabun neighborhood of Damascus for the evacuation of opposition fighters, Syrian state media and a monitor said on Saturday. The deal comes after similar evacuations from neighboring rebel-held Damascus districts and a government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Srian regime helicopters have pounded opposition-held areas near Mount Hermon that lies on the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, activists aid Saturday. Backed by the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and heavy artillery, the Assad regime is presing to take villages of Beit Jin...

Syrian regime army captured an airbase in eastern Aleppo from ISIS Saturday, after more than two months of fierce clashes, a military source and activists said. The Jarrah airbase had been under ISIS control since January 2014, when the extremists seized it from rebels who had captured it a...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Former detainee in Syrian regime’s prisons spoke about his imprisonment, where he was subject to brutal torturing and witnessed killing many detainees under torture.   Ab Rami, Palestinian from Syria, from Southern of Damascus, used to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish militants killed 6 people in Ya'rub village west of Raqqa city, local monitoring group said Saturday.  Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said the US-backed forces killed three family memebrs and 3 more civilains as they overrun the ISIS-held areas in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammed, Mahmood and Ali, three brothers from the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus have a genetic disease that affected their muscles and their ability to walk and move, which turned their and their parents’ lives into hell, especially with the siege forced on the camp. ...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven regime army troops were killed on Friday when ISIS struck their bastions in the eastern countryside of Homs city, pro-regime media said. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said ISIS fighters had ambushed regime forces in al-Shumariya mountains that lie on the...

Arab and Kurdish militias expect to storm Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa in early summer, one of their commanders said on Friday, with the help of weapons they are awaiting from the U.S.-led coalition against IS. Abdul Qader Hevdeli, a commander of the militias known as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Immodest rude practices which breach public morals have widespread in coastal Tartus city that required the Headquarter of Tartus police to create a police station to control breaches of public morals and threaten peace in community.  Tartus police has...