(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 regime army troops from the coastal city of Latakia in a week of clashes that take place in the desert and in southern Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included General, Colonel, Colonel Lieutenant, 2 Captains and 2 lieutenants, mostly...

( Middle East Eye )- Back when Samer al-Kadri ran a publishing house producing children’s books in Damascus, he dreamt of opening a cultural centre, but it was only when he was forced to flee his homeland that he established one. After opening Pages, a successful bookshop and cultural...

( The Guardian )- What has the White House alleged? The Syrian military is making preparations for a chemical weapons attack that “would result in the mass murder of civilians, including children”. How has the Assad regime used chemical weapons in the past? It has deployed them in...

Syria’s former defense minister Mustafa Tlass, a close friend of President Bashar Assad’s father and predecessor Hafez, died in Paris Tuesday, his son Firas said. He was 85. Tlass, whose other son Manaf was among the most high-profile regime officials to defect during the early days of...