Writing by Abdulhafiz al-Holani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Amna Mohammed Bakar, a grandmother from Qusayr in Homs Countryside, refugee in Lebanon, has pledged to give the name of “Daraya”, the name of well known suburb of Damascus, to her first grandchild if it was a...

(ICIJ)- One morning in mid-2014, before the summer sun had reached its peak, two elderly men in Aleppo, Syria, sat on plastic chairs, chatting quietly and drinking black coffee. From his perch outside his food stall, Sabri Wahid Asfur and his friend Abu Yassin watched their neighbors go...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Feminist Lobby condemned what it called “the dirty crime” committed in the right of all women and Syrian women specifically through the crime of human trafficking of the network discovered recently in Lebanon. The lobby stressed the necessity of doing urgent moves to...

Syrian troops on Sunday seized the key Islamic State group bastion of Al-Qaryatain, dealing the jihadists a new blow in the country's centre a week after expelling them from Palmyra, state television said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group however said fighting was still...