Russian air strikes have hit Syria's last major rebel bastion for the first time since a March ceasefire came into force, a war monitor said Wednesday. The Russian strikes Tuesday evening and at dawn Wednesday hit an area of the northwest where the boundaries of Hama, Idlib and Latakia...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian poet Abdulrahman Matar has been awarded the annual Empowering Communities Prize by the Multicultural Festival in the Canadian city of Toronto, the former political detainee told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. Matar, originally from eastern Raqqa city, was given...

Syria’s stock market on Tuesday suspended trading for the largest cellular company in the country, owned by a cousin of the president and one of Syria’s richest businessmen. The decision by the Syrian Commission of Financial Markets and Securities marked another development in a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- No sooner had the fire from Assad’s guns seized than other fires raged, consuming the land and crops of the Syrians, which led some to suspect that the fires were deliberate and premeditated. Throughout April and May, hundreds of fires broke out, devouring...