A study by the Dutch Social and Cultural Planning Office, including 3,200 Syrian refugees who came to the Netherlands in 2014, has revealed that the distribution of  refugees   residency in all Dutch municipalities is not helpful for their access to employment...

Dr. Hoda Al-Absi, Minister of Education in the Syrian opposition’s Interim Government, announced her resignation on Wednesday. Al-Absi told Zaman Al Wasl that the past period was “full of frustration.” She directed her statement to “Free Syrians”, which she described...

 Zaman al-Wasl obtained photographs showing two Syrian refugees, based in Austria, in a visit to their hometown Salamiyah in northwestern Hama province last March as well as they met with a militia commander.  The two brothers Abdul Karim and Yazan Shatat, who got their...

Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria’s Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday. It did not immediately say whether Assad had appointed a replacement or give a reason for Karfoul’s dismissal. Syria’s economy has been decimated by...