(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes had dropped 820 barrel bombs on Daraya suburb southern the capital in November, local governing council said. The poor southern outskirt of Damascus has been under suffocating siege for over three years and under daily barrage of barrel bombs in...

The use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war is becoming routine, a U.S. official said in The Hague on Monday, calling on members of the global chemical weapons body to collectively condemn their use. "Today, we must raise our voice collectively and emphatically to condemn...

ISIS is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. Their quest raises an alarming scenario for the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad )- Souq al Amara, a small and popular marketplace near the Old City of Damascus where almost everything needed for food can be found, but the only difference from the capital’s markets is the low prices where poor and middle class people can...