When he was agitating for revolution, urging fellow Syrians to rise up against President Bashar al-Assad, Abdullah dreaded the midnight knock at the door from the secret police. Now that the uprising has succeeded in his home town near Aleppo, pro-democracy activists are living in fear...
The United Nations says its aid convoys cannot reach around 250,000 people in areas besieged by Syrian government forces or rebels, despite "growing needs and intensifying conflict". The detailed assessment was included in a confidential paper that Valerie Amos, U.N. emergency relief...
Rebels posted photo online showed 3 men slaughtering a lion in the besieged Ghouta suburbs, east Damascus; they try to 'm ake a virtue of necessity' , activists said. Zaman Alwasl source said the old lion came from the embattled Douma Zoo in Damascus countryside....
Three people were killed Tuesday in Syria's capital Damascus in renewed mortar attacks that targeted two districts of the capital. The mortars landed at the Baghdad Street in the northern district of Barzeh, Xinhua reported citing the state-run SANA news agency. It gave no further...
