Zaman Al-Wasl will suspend publishing for an hour on Tuesday (between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Damascus time) in mourning for the veteran Michel Kilo who died of COVID-19 in Paris after a lifetime of peaceful struggle against the Assad regime.  Kilo, who turned 80 last year,...

Denmark recently became the first European country to begin denying temporary residence status to Syrian refugees. The move reflects internal Danish politics but also represents a threat to individual Syrians, with potentially much larger consequences if other European countries follow...

(The New York Times)-  As the sun set, children in dirty clothes and battered shoes herded sheep past the towering stone walls of a Byzantine settlement abandoned more than 1,000 years ago, leading them into an ancient cave nearby where the animals would spend the night....

Read  Michel Kilo's last message to the Syrian people from his sickbed on April 7. Prominent exiled opposition figure Michel Kilo died of Covid-19 on Monday in Paris after a lifetime of peaceful struggle against Baath party rule in Syria, colleagues said....