Away from the frontlines, volunteers are helping in the war against President Bashar al-Assad by cooking, filling sandbags, collecting old tyres and digging trenches, aiming to help ward off his assault on northwestern Syria. It is part of the civilian effort to help defend the last major...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian regime’s top official in Hasaka province has clahsed with pro-Assad National Defense Units and security forces on Saturday over 'nepotism' complaints and mounting corruption in the wheat season as farmers push to sell their crops the regime. Activist...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Behind the bars of Roumieh, the notorious Lebanese prison, and inside a cell Bock B, dwells Abdul Razzaq al-Adam, a Syrian disabled detainee, for more than two years without trial and without an attorney. Despite his disability, the Lebanese authorities have detained him, a...

Abu Mohamed lost his house in Syria early in the civil war. Six years on, it's happening again -- only this time in Lebanon and he has to destroy it himself. His family and thousands of others crammed in this remote mountainous region of northeastern Lebanon have been ordered to demolish...