The passing of renowned Syrian author Khaled Khalifa has shocked the community at home and abroad. Khaled died at his home in Damascus after a sudden heart attack, at the age of 59. I met Khaled Khalifa in Damascus in the early 1990s, just as his fame as a screenwriter was taking off, and we...

As the Islamic State group, formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, continues its armed campaign in Iraq and Syria, its notoriety is drawing fans and fighters from as far as Asia and the Pacific. Authorities and experts have warned that the growing popularity of the...

One of the Islamic Front powerful leaders described the Syrian opposition president in his negotiations with Assad’s regime in Geneva as a new Arthur Belfour, who promised the Jewish people of a national home in Palestine (The Balfour Declaration 1917), according to his official...

‘’Our martyr Abdul-Qader Saleh was buried in his hometown, Mare’a, two days ago; no funeral ceremony to take place today in Aleppo,’’ Tawhid brigades’ source told Zaman Alwasl.  The prominent military commander died of his wounds in Turkish hospital after...