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Syria opposition under pressure to accept Assad for now

Syrian opposition negotiators in Geneva receive a steady stream of visitors, all bearing the same request: freeze the demand that President Bashar al-Assad resign as a precondition for a peace deal. With an eighth round of UN-backed peace talks dragging on, the opposition is in a tight...

8 Syrian refugee children died in deadly fire in Lebanon

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Eight Syrian refugee children, mostly family members, lost their lives when a fire tore through their camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Thursday, head of Syrian refugees affairs commission told Zaman al-Wasl. Abdul Rahman Akkari told Zaman al-Wasl in a...

Syrians keep fleeing to Turkey despite smugglers greed

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Trafficking trade has grown after the shutting the border crossings and constructing a four meter high cement wall along the Turkish border has not stopped smugglers’ work, Syrian refugees say.  Abu Muhammed, who recently arrived to Turkey, told Zaman...

How Syria’s First Oscar Contender Eluded the Government

In “Little Gandhi,” a new documentary about the uprising in Syria that began in 2011, two activists are trying to give an interview in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus. With the camera rolling, they pause. There is too much gunfire in the background. “The sniper is about 200 meters away from...