Kurdish authorities in Syria's Afrin district called Thursday for Bashar Assad's government to send troops to help defend them from a six-day-old Turkish assault, turning for help to the very government from which they have sought autonomy. The statement posted on the website of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Social media observer can notice the the deep gap between the segments of Syrian society since 2011. This great refraction was not confined to the limits of the virtual world only, but divided the Syrian arena between the pro-Assad regime and opposition in the ranks of the...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria said that peace talks due to resume in Vienna Thursday are taking place "at a very, very critical moment". "Definitely I am optimistic because it is the only way to be at such moments," Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday. "It is a very, very critical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed factions may join the National Dialogue Congress in Sochi at the end of January after a shift in the opposition's stance that met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl the new move come due to the...