Syria's army cut the last main supply route for a rebel bastion east of Damascus Sunday, further tightening a crippling siege on the area, a monitor and state media said. "The regime has cut off the last main road for rebels leading out of Eastern Ghouta," the main opposition stronghold in...

 The Syrian capital's tiny tourist train is returning puffs of hope to a city encircled by war with short trips to the greener suburbs of Damascus. The train, whose large yellow wagon and leather seats can hold 100 people, had stopped running since the 2011 outbreak...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A “Security card” is the latest invention of the Syrian regime for people live in Damascus, which protects its owner from being humiliated and annoyed at the regimes barriers.  Fees for getting the Security Card is $.600 are paid...

(Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A defected nurse worked in Hospital 601 that was the crime scene of the atrocious photos of mass torture published 2014, reported to Zaman al-Wasl horrible facts about torturing detainees in the hospital, including...