By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hafez al-Assad has spread a propaganda which has dominated the Syrian arena for decades of the oppression of the Alawites and their excessive marginalization, before Hafez came to power and leadership, and built for them a "glory and a great...

 Clashes raged between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia in Syria's Afrin region Wednesday, as wounded civilians fled intense Turkish air strikes. Turkey and allied Syrian rebels have pressed on with Operation Olive Branch in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin enclave...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime airstrikes on besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs killed two civilians on Tuesday, Civil Defense agency said. The strikes pounded the suburb of Arbin as the resume heavy fighting in Eastern Ghouta since Sunday after a short period of relative calm...

The Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil war, diplomats and scientists told Reuters, supporting Western claims that government forces under President Bashar Assad were...