Iraqi forces clashed with Daesh (ISIS) militants holding out in Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the extremists in what they had made the de facto Iraqi capital of their self-declared caliphate. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's victory...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian media outlets and officials hastened to defend the al-Assad regime after it recently bombed the city of Zamalka and the town of Ein Tarma, in Damascus suburbs, with chlorine and poisonous substances. In their defense of al-Assad, Russian media and...

( Expression )- MOSUL. Falah Aziz says he's cut the head off 50 living people and killed 130 people in total. He calls himself the beheader. "Just that feeling, I can't explain how at ease I am with it," is his response when asked what it feels like to cut someone's head off." He is Iraqi and...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since the start of the revolution, Syrians are being killed and suffocated. This violence follows years of regime oppression, repression, and executions. Syrians have not even been able to raise a file against the al-Assad regime in the...