It mystifies me how in spite of all the disasters that are happening in Syria, Syrians seem to have been taken with the news of the Etilaf’s president, Ahmad Jarba, slapping the SMC’s coordinator, Louay AlMokdad, across the face. For the purposes of this reflection, the...

An armed group broke into the Office of Zaman Alwasl in Aleppo, in search of  our reporter, Ra’fat Al-Rifaei, who has been asked for leaving hours before the assault over torrent of threats, late on Thursday.   According to eyewitnesses and colleagues...

   The Shiite Turn in Syria is in-depth study by the researcher Khalid Sindawi, Zaman Alwasl republishes this important paper which appeared   before in Volume 8 of   Current Trends in Islamist Ideology ,   published by Hudson Institute,  ...

Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported...