Historically bitter relations between Syria and Israel have been bypassed by the civil conflict as a wave of injured Syrians get urgent medical help from Israelis. The two countries remain technically at war (Israel is frequently demonised as "Zionist Imperialism" by the Ba'ath...

More than two and a half years into the civil war devastating Syria, the United States and  Russia  are pushing the combatants to the negotiating table in Geneva, but on terms that mark a shift in favor of Bashar al-Assad against the increasingly fragmented rebels seeking to...

  It mystifies me how in spite of all the disasters that are happening in Syria, Syrians seem to have been taken with the news of the Etilaf’s president, Ahmad Jarba, slapping the SMC’s coordinator, Louay AlMokdad, across the face. For the purposes of this reflection, the...

An armed group broke into the Office of Zaman Alwasl in Aleppo, in search of  our reporter, Ra’fat Al-Rifaei, who has been asked for leaving hours before the assault over torrent of threats, late on Thursday.   According to eyewitnesses and colleagues...