(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists and human rights activists on Thursday began touring government agencies and foreign embassies in Lebanon to discuss Syrian refugee issues in Lebanon, in the hope of alleviating the pressures and challenges faced by the official decision-making and security...

A Syrian film-maker whose documentary on the siege of Aleppo brought a Cannes audience to tears has said she wants to show the world the reality of her country. Waad al-Kateab's powerful and intimate film "For Sama" is a love letter to her infant daughter, documenting the desperate...

Syrian-Lebanese economist Rouba Mhaissen won Norway's Rafto Prize on Thursday for her work defending the rights of refugees and migrants, the Rafto Foundation said. Mhaissen, 31, is the founder and director of SDAID, an organisation that has since 2011 helped Syrians displaced by the war in...

Zaman al-Wasl was able to uncover one of the most insidious amnesties issued by Bashar al-Assad that extorts tens of thousands of Syrians who used to be employees that left the country "illegally", for fear of being killed, arrested or forced into the regime's army. Al-Assad issued an...