By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Samira al-Sahli, the first Palestinian woman dying under torture in Syrian regime’s prisons, according to the Palestinian Committee for Human Rights. Al-Sahli worked in aid and...
By Laila Bassam and Sylvia Westall RASHAYA Lebanon (Reuters) - On mountains close to the Syrian border, members of Lebanon's minority Druze sect say they are ready to defend their towns and villages with arms if the civil war next raging door gets much nearer....
(AFP)- A nine-year-old girl has become the star of a YouTube comedy that depicts with bittersweet humour the harsh reality of everyday life in rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo. Rasha plays the role of "Umm Abdo al-Halabiya", a housewife who must make do in a city devastated...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian state newspaper criticized the United Nations envoy to the country shortly before he arrived in Damascus on Saturday, for pursuing a plan that involves halting fighting in certain areas of the war-wracked nation. The daily Al-Thawra newspaper...
