(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ibrahim Hussein al-Muheisen, who hails from the northern countryside of Daraa, was arrested in May 2011 in Sayyida Zeinab south of Damascus by the Military Security Division on charges of assisting refugees without informing the authorities. The checkpoint arrested him,...

Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moallem discussed Monday the formation of a constitutional committee and its work with U.N. special envoy Geir Pedersen who said that "all the outstanding issues" related to it were being addressed in talks. Pedersen's visit to Syria comes a week after...

U.S. officials can use an emerging rift in Syria to push Turkey and Russia toward a divorce and renew U.S.-Turkish relations, said an analysis in conservative U.S. outlet The National Interest.  Turkish observation posts in and around Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province have in...

Over 350 people have been arrested across Egypt in the latest wave of demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, according to a Cairo-based non-governmental organization .  In a statement, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) said 356 people have...