(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes are underway between the Islamic State and regime army in the eastern countryside of Hama left 13 troops dead, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. National hospital of Salamiya town has received 13 corpses for slain soldiers killed in the battleground of...

On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner's widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria. Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the Baron played host to adventurers, writers, kings, aviators, Bedouin chiefs and presidents...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent military figures were targeted by the assassination during a period of 10 days amid clear incompetence in identifying the perpetrators in Dumeir where resistance has captured the city in northern Damascus countryside recently. In this regard, Saad al-Haj,...

( The Globe and Mail )- At 2 a.m. in the midst of Ramadan in 2012, Mohamed Sharbaji got a call from a neighbour of his Aleppo home: “There are men with guns in your house.” In the moment before that conversation, Mr. Sharbaji was a man of influence. A former business owner and land...