Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HAMA (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aqrab, a small town in Hama’s Western South countryside, midway between Homs and Hama, of Turkman majority and some Alawite, nearly 2000 people out of total 12 thousand. It is surrounded by...

(Reuters) - In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria’s border town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have for longer been engulfing another strategically more vital target - Iraq’s western Anbar province and its road to Baghdad....

BEIRUT ( Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al Wasl has met with number of Syrian refugees who were arrested with other 450 last weeks by Lebanese Army after storming their makeshifts in border town of Arsal. The refugees said they had been through savage arrest...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of refugees in Iraq and Syria, fleeing attacks by Islamic State, will be given emergency winter kits to help them cope with the approach of cold, rainy weather, an international aid agency said on Thursday....