BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The video on his phone shows the boy firing a heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod through a hole in a crumbling building, his slender body shaking from the kickback. “We were kind of nervous, not because we are cowards, because it was our first fight...

(Reporting by Ma’moon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Dani Murad) In a war that grew out of pro-democracy protests in the summer of 2011, Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have used sieges as a war tactic to root out rebel forces from residential areas,...

(Zaman Alwasl)- Opposition activists warn of further rifts between rebels ranks in the northern province of Aleppo as regime troops have been making rapid advances since last week. Aleppo’s activists have organized a campaign to mobilize efforts and...

  (Translation by Dani Murad) ( Zaman Alwasl )- New leaked documents obtained by Zaman Alwasl reveal the names of “National Defense” and “Shabiha” formations of employees working in the heart of the Syrian capital Damascus, regime’s most important city, since its...