Beirut: Lebanon’s police on Wednesday said they arrested a “prominent” drug trafficking baron suspected of smuggling large shipments of the amphetamine-like drug captagon to at least six countries. The 31-year-old suspect “had been professionally smuggling captagon to Arab...

The Syrian government will distribute free chickens and feed to farmers to support rural areas ravaged by years of conflict, an agriculture ministry official told AFP on Tuesday. A cabinet statement said 1 billion Syrian pounds ($2.3 million) has been allocated to the initiative, which aims...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of Syrians refugees and residents in France did not find words more profound and truthful to immortalize Abdul Basset Sarout on Sunday than his own slogans and songs that once chanted in Syria’s demonstrations, asserting that his blood will be a beacon for them in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- After a year in detention in the notorious Saydnaya prison, Mahmoud (pseudonym) was presented on the regime’s counter-terrorism court in the capital, handcuffed and clearly tortured.  At the time, he was charged with terrorism, with no chance of defending...