(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is unable to supply sufficient quantities of bread and foodstuffs in eastern Deir Ez Zor city, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Jalal al-Hamd, the director of the Justice Observatory for Life in Deir Ez Zor,...

Syria's government and rebels exchanged some 30 prisoners and nine bodies, part of a larger agreement to evacuate four besieged areas in different parts of the country, activists and officials said Wednesday. Hakim Baghdadi, a member of the relief committee for al-Foua and Kfarya, two...

( The Guardian )- Rex Tillerson’s plane touched down in Moscow on Tuesday amid a smoky haze caused by a fire at a nearby rubbish dump. More than one observer found the metaphor irresistible. The US approach to Syria – the term “policy” would dignify it with a coherence it does not...

Pope Francis will visit Egypt as planned this month despite the weekend bombings of two Coptic Christian churches that killed 44 people, a Vatican official said. "There is no doubt the Holy Father will maintain his offer to go to Egypt" on April 28 and 29, Monsignor Angelo Becciu, the Holy...