Syrian rebel fighters have launched a major assault on government-held southwestern parts of Aleppo to try to reopen supply lines after the army and its allies tightened their siege of opposition-held parts of the city last week. The rebels are trying to break through the strip of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Confiscation and black market trading in its different kinds has returned to all of al-Salamiyah and its countryside.  The area governed by a very special type of mercenary whose first and perhaps only concern is gathering more money by any means possible without much...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- In Syria's forgotten villages and cities of populations left to killing, displacement and destruction in silence. No reports to describe their plight and they do not pass in a breaking news piece on screens and websites.  They are forgetting in media, in relief,...

(Middle East Eye)- Some 5,188 civilians have been killed in Syria since the announcement of a cessation of hostilities in the country five months ago, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said yesterday. The network said the regime forces and Russia were responsible for 71 per cent of the...