(Zaman al-Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad said that the Syrian media is corrupted and needs to be cleaned during his talk to al-Watan newspaper owned by his cousin Rami Makhlouf. The talk is to be published on Thursday. Bashar al-Assad’s statement in relation to the media comes after a long series...

Russian prosecutors on Thursday demanded a five-year jail sentence for a 21-year-old female student accused of trying to join ISIS in Syria. Varvara Karaulova is on trial in the high-profile case after she was detained last year as she tried to cross into war-torn Syria while still a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 61 civilians killed on Wednesday in eastern Aleppo as regime backed by Russia and Shiite militias pressed rapid advances and massive exodus from the battleground neighborhoods, Civil Defense said. The tragic death toll come amid call by the rebels of besieged...

A British hostage has appeared in a new Islamic State propaganda video said to have been recorded in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which coalition forces are currently trying to retake from militants. John Cantlie, a journalist who was captured in Syria in 2012, is pictured looking thin in the...