Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl) Ahmad al-Jassem, a young Syrian athlete, won first place in his group at the 10 Kilometer marathon in the Stockholm Athletics Championships after a tough and difficult race with more than 3,000 contestants from different Swedish cities. Al-Jassem won...

In a community hall in the Spanish region of Catalonia, two independence activists take the stage against a backdrop of red and yellow striped Catalan flags: a Syrian-born tourist guide and a Spanish member of parliament born in Uruguay. With barely three months to go before an independence...

By Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl) Syrians know by virtue of their engagement with the army, Baath Party and media institutions in their country that Saudi Arabia and the Saudis were always within the al-Assad regime’s target circle. For the head of the regime, Saudi Arabia is the head of...

The Syrian army is in full control of the highway from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time since 2014 after driving out extremits, a monitor said on Friday. Since troops recaptured Palmyra from ISIS in March, the UNESCO World Heritage site had been accessible via Syria's third...