Assad troops took over the village of Aziziyeh,  In the northern province of Aleppo,  days after seizing the strategic town of Sfeira from rebel hands, according to the Aleppo Media Centre, a network of anti-government activists.   Rebels' concerns have...

   Rebels' concerns have dramatically mounted amid fears of imminent siege for their areas in Aleppo after the fall of Safira town by the Assad army, according to Zaman Alwasl sources. The town of Safira lies on a road the army said would be used to send in...

The Colonel held out through two years of conflict, but recently the economic conditions there have become untenable.   In 2006, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened Syria’s first American restaurant in Damascus. The franchise weathered more than two and a half years of war, but...

    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,...