( Zaman Al Wasl )- Syrian activists have accused a Swedish newspaper of 'polishing the image of Bashar al-Assad,' saying Expressen interview with the tyrant is no more than a reciprocal for freeing a reporter two months ago. Assad's interview with Expressen that published on Friday has...

At least 20 people have been killed on Friday in Syrian regime airstrikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, activists said. Medics told Zaman al-Wasl more than 120 people have been killed in the fiercest aerial campaign on Aleppo in a week. Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have...

New rules in Lebanon, which has the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world, have left many thousands of them at risk of abuse from landlords and detention at any time, aid workers and a rights group say. Four years of civil war across the border in  Syria...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Turkish military and logistical support was the main factor that helped insurgents to seize the northwestern city of Idlib from government control last month. Idlib, a short drive from the Turkish border, is only the second provincial capital to fall...