Ghada's five children cried out in terror when police broke into their run-down Istanbul flat at dawn and ordered the 36-year-old Syrian's family onto a bus, without saying why. The family of seven from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was among a group of refugees rounded up two weeks ago...

(Zaman Al Wasl- BBC)- Hundreds of fighters and civilians in three besieged parts of Syria have been evacuated under a truce deal brokered by the United Nations. Buses and ambulances ferried at least 120 Sunni rebels and civilians from Zabadani into nearby Lebanon. At the same time,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Late Syrian journalist and film maker Naji al Jerf who has been assassinated Sunday in the Turkish border city of Gaziantep with a silencer-equipped pistol was not a bitter enemy for ISIS, but also for the Syrian security services. According to the intelligence archive...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS fighters have recaptured early Monday three border towns with Turkey were under control of the Syrian rebels, Zaman Al Wasl local reporter said. ISIS took towns Dwaidan, Qarah Qweeri and Ghazel in the northern countryside. Omar Kassouma, military commander of Sultan...