Syrian rebels have captured a strategic town in northern Hama province in a major offensive that threatens government loyalist towns populated by minority Christians and Alawites north of the provincial capital, rebels and a monitor said on Tuesday. The town of Halfaya was stormed on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A 48-hour truce entered into effect in the besieged Al-Waer neighborhood in the city of Homs on Monday, a day after fierce aerial bombing killed 7 civilians and wounded dozens, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The truce followed two days of air raids, the first such strikes since...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Illness did not have mercy on her young years, Lenur al-Shareef was born with cancer and after she overcame the illness, her bladder nerve was damaged due to a medical mistake in one of the hospitals in Damascus. She lived for 10 years on urinary...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime extended its fierce aerial campaign on al-Waer in Homs city, killing 7 people in 19  air strikes rocked the besieged neighborhood, local activists said Sunday. The fierce bombing on the last stronghold for rebels in the the central Syrian city came as regime...