When Jaafar's grandmother recognized him by his birthmark in a Turkish orphanage, months after his parents were killed fleeing Syria's civil war, she held him tight, screaming for joy. The story of how Hajar Saleh, a 47-year-old nurse, spent fraught weeks tracing her grandson in a foreign...

One evening in the early days of Syria’s uprising, Mohsen al-Masri’s band of activists slipped through the Damascus streets and waited for the coast to clear. Then they crouched, opened their bags and let out a stream of color. Thousands of ping-pong balls, painted green, pink, blue...

By Rami Diba (Zaman Al Wasl)- An official source in the Syrian resistance in the south of Damascus confirmed that the factions in the towns of Yalda, Babila, and Beit Sahm did not coordinate or communicate with the parties involved in the Zabadani and Madaya - Kafriya and Al-Fu’ah...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Assef Shawkat, once Syria's most powerful man and ruling family's son-in-law, remained hostage to the Assad family’s decision till his death in Damascus bomb attack on July 18, 2012. Shawkat is one of the few figures in Syrian contemporary history whose life as an...