( The New York Times )- A South African tourist who was abducted nearly six years ago from an inn in Timbuktu, Mali, by the North African branch of Al Qaeda has been freed, officials said on Thursday. The tourist, Stephen Malcolm McGown, 42, was the last of the “Timbuktu Three,” who were...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al-Wasl obtained exclusive information about the identity of the Syrians who were humiliated by the Turkish border guards and the circumstances of what happened to them. The information revealed a number of striking and interesting...

(Eqtsad)- The liberated areas in the north of Syria is witnessing a relative calm after the “de-escalation of tension” agreement which resulted in Idlib city’s streets and markets and its countryside witnesses relatively active commercial movement. This situation was reflected...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Difficult days ahead, sedition, causing unrest and strike, and circulating rumors are the main terms, among others, which Syrians are using to describe their situation and that of their 3 million co-nationals inside Turkey in recent days. The...