Syria’s government has decreed that women should wear burkinis or other swimwear that covers the body at public beaches and swimming pools, while permitting Western-style beachwear at private clubs and luxury hotels. The tourism ministry decision issued this week marks the first time the...

Documents issued by the National Defense Forces in Damascus, which have been reviewed, reveal a systematic and horrific mechanism for concealing the bodies of a large number of detainees during the years of the Syrian revolution. Bodies were transported with secret numbers instead of names to...

  It’s been about 150 days since Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam took office. On one hand, Lebanon is experiencing its best chapter in two decades. On the other hand, there are concerns about the slow pace of progress – and that another war is on the verge of erupting. Regardless of...

Zaman al-Wasl was able to uncover the fate of Shadi Ghazi al-Muhammad, whose photo appeared among the photos of detainees from the National Defense Forces militia that the newspaper previously published. Shadi, born in 1998, was arrested in 2013 by members of the National Defense Forces,...