Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- On the window front of one of the Arabic shops in the area of Itakeskus in the Finish city of Helsinki, a cardboard sign faces passersby with the phrase “reductions for fasters” and next to it the phrase, “Happy Ramadan” in the country’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A few kilograms of rice, sugar, bulgur wheat, dates, and some canned food is all what Oum Kassem was able to buy before the start of the month of Ramadan.   As is the situation of many Syrians inside Syria, the 60-year-old displaced lady in one of the camps in Idlib’s...

 U.S.-backed Syrian rebels were pushed back from the outskirts of an Islamic State-held town on the border with Iraq and a nearby air base on Wednesday after the jihadists mounted a counter- attack, two rebel sources said. The New Syria Army rebel group had launched an operation on...

Syrian rebels advanced into an Islamic State-held town at the border with Iraq on Wednesday, a rebel commander told Reuters, in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at cutting the jihadists' self-declared caliphate in two. The operation aiming to capture the eastern Syrian town of Al-Bukamal,...