(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's al Qaeda offshoot, the Nusra Front, backed by rebel factions on Monday has thwarted regime attack on Tal Hadya town in the southern countryside of Aleppo province. Zaman Al Wasl reporter said rebels and jihadist groups have inflicted heavy losses on regime troops and...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leishmaniasis, or “Aleppo boil”, has spread among the regime's soldiers and other militias  in the eastern countryside of central Homs province, the outskirts of Palmyra city and the center. The spread of the disease among a large number of...

(The Guardian)- Who would want to be a woman in Aleppo? The female population of Syria’s second city find themselves threatened both by the murderous misogynists of Islamic State (Isis) and the Russian allies of the president, Bashar al-Assad, whose bombing raids mean that now even bad...

By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Special)- Only few Hours after the bloody attacks of Paris that killed more than 130 people ,  Bashar al-Assad met a number of French parliamentarians, intellectuals and media figures in his presidential palace, ...