By Naser Ali (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's ongoing war has left tragic side effects, most notably the foundlings and homeless children, according to activists who assure the absence of an accurate number of the Syrian orphans and displaced children. A baby child in good health was found last...

Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army fighters have "besieged" the Daesh-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria and are now "on the verge of capturing it," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. "Our forces along with the Free Syrian Army [fighters] have reached the [town] center. And...

(BBC)- The Syrian jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), known as al-Nusra Front until it broke off formal ties with al-Qaeda last July, has merged with four smaller Syrian factions and rebranded itself as "Tahrir al-Sham". The new group's leader has been named as Hashim al-Sheikh, who...

By Ali Eid (Zaman al-Wasl)- During a prisoner swap on the outskirts of Hama, Rasha Sharbaji from Daraya was released few days ago. Rasha spent around three years in Assad prisons. She was a mother of three children before she was detained and became mother of five. She had a twin in the...