(Zaman Al Wasl0 At least 16 officers and soldiers from from Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha in coastal Latakia province have been killed in April, local activists said. The death toll included 8 officers who were killed throughout Syria. Qardaha Newspaper has mourned 40...

A recording of the head of Tunisia's private TV station, Nessma, was leaked on April 17, detailing threats and intimidation against a civil society group fighting corruption in the country. In the audio footage, the voice of Nabil Karoui, head of the influential TV channel and founding...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The deputy commander of Ahrar Al-Sham Movement told Zaman al-Wasl that most the freed detainees due to the four-town evacuation deal were employees and civilians and no activists or political detainees had been released. Anas Najib said the first batch of released...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel group in southern Damascus district of Yalda has re-opened the main crossing with the besieged Yarmouk Camp after four days of closure that caused sever suffering and hike in prices, local activists said Wednesday. Jaish al-Islam said the closure...