Satellite photos have confirmed that a target attacked two weeks ago near the Syrian port of Latakia was a battery of advanced anti-aircraft missiles, according to the Israeli magazine, Israel Defense. The battery was in the process of upgrading that would have made...

   The Shiite Turn in Syria is in-depth study by the researcher Khalid Sindawi, Zaman Alwasl republishes this important paper which appeared   before in Volume 8 of   Current Trends in Islamist Ideology ,   published by Hudson Institute,  ...

  Attacks against Shiites, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 39 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith.   The bloodshed came as a flood of...

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that the Syria issue was seriously affecting neighbouring Lebanon. In a report to the Security Council, he stated that 800,000 refugees have fled to Lebanon due to the ongoing war in Syria and this has...