A senior Syrian government minister on Sunday dismissed as a "joke" plans by the Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria to hold elections and said they would not be allowed to threaten the country's territorial unity. Deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad also said the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Riad Seif, Head of the Syrian opposition's National Coalition, has decided to step down, three months since he was elected to carry out a reform process inside the Western-backed group and once the only legitimate representative of the Syrian people, well-informed sources told...

 (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- 'Necessity is the mother of invention' especially when your are besieged by your national army for over 6 years. The necessity pushed people of Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus to invent many ways to survive even if the last couple of months finds some life clues...

Influential Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday called on the Baghdad government to dismantle the paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi umbrella organisation dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias. Sadr was speaking to thousands of supporters in the Iraqi capital after a rare visit at...