The Islamic State group launched a counter-attack against fighters trying to capture the Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, inflicting heavy casualties on the U.S.-backed forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the militants said. The monitor said the militants won back three...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Before he was detained in Assad’s prisons, he was healthy. He came out of the prison, ill and drained out of torture. His body is a witness to what Syrians face in the basements of death and cells of daily killing. Doctor Kamal Muhee al-Deen al-Jum’a devoted himself to the...

ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) — Salam Ashara and his family left Syria in early 2013, when no one expected the civil war in their country to rage for years with no signs of relenting and create the worst refugee crisis since World War II. The Asharas were among the first families to...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Refugees in the countryside of Austria enjoy the atmosphere of the Holy month of Ramadan as if they are in their own country.  In a small Austrian village called Berlsleg, the Turkish community always organise a collective Iftar in the mosque,...