The main defendant in the first trial on state-sponsored torture in Syria sought police protection in Germany because he felt threatened by Bashar al-Assad's intelligence service after he switched sides, a German court was told Friday. Anwar Raslan, 57, is in the docks charged with...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Siege Language novel by Mohamed Wahbi hunts the bitter moments of the Syrian revolution in the early days. The Syrian doctor blended fiction with true incidents that occurred during his work in the Military hospital of Homs as his story takes place in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian lecturer and former detainee Omar Al-Shogre has received the Leadership Award from the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustav for having leadership skills and noble attributes like sympathy and courage and the willingness to build a better future for humans. ...

An Iraqi man believed to have belonged to Daesh (ISIS) went on trial in Germany Friday accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yazidi minority who he held as a slave. Taha al-Jumailly, 27, also stands accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking in...