(Zaman Al Wasl)- 2000 rebel fighters with their families to leave al-Tal, a northeastern suburb of Damascus on Friday, heading Idlib province after an evacuation deal reached early this week, local activists said. ‘Cleansing rebel pockets’ surrounding the capital as regime media says has...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas opened the first congress of his Fatah party for seven years on Tuesday, with 1,300 mostly elderly delegates gathered to elect new leaders and discuss longer-term policy, including how to confront Israel. The meeting comes at a challenging time for Abbas,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The besieged neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs city on Tuesday has witnessed a careful calmness in the first day of the truce, activists said. Residents from inside the neighborhood told Zaman al-Wasl that life in besieged al-Waer is still semi-paralyzed as residents are still...

Every morning, Syrian trucks roll up to a car park near a Turkish border crossing, ready to take a consignment of UN aid back inside the war-torn country. But so far the cargo cannot reach the area where it is needed most -- the besieged rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo where tens of...