Around 50,000 Syrians are stranded in no-man's land along the border with Jordan, a three-fold increase since January because of increased security checks, state news agency Petra reported Monday. The agency, quoting government spokesman Mohamed Momani, said the estimated 50,000 refugees were...

GENEVA (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition's spokesperson, in a press conference held Saturday, said the proposal saying that Bashar al-Assad can stay along with 3 MPS is totally not accepted and even was not delivered by the U.N special emvoy. "Any proposition outside Geneva 1 and outside...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters took at least 11 villages from regime army and rebel factions in northern Aleppo province, activists said Saturday. Activist Omar al-Shamali told Zaman al-Wasl that Isis had taken villages of Tel Shaeer, Bragheed and Qasajek in the northern countryside...

Pope Francis arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday, turning the world's attention to the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis which has claimed hundreds of lives in the past year. Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, was scheduled to spend...