Orient TV reporter has been kidnapped in Aleppo in area controlled by al-Qaeda affiliate, the State of Iraq and The Levant, media sources said to Zaman Alwasl . Mouayyed Salloum is citizen journalist and activist,  he started working as a reporter...

    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,...

  Syrian troops pressed an advance Thursday on the strategic area of Sfeira, the site of several arms factories near Aleppo, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Fierce clashes are raging between the rebels and regime troops on the eastern side of...

  One Syrian security official called it the "Starvation Until Submission Campaign", blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas of  Syria . Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from...