(Al Arabiya)- Tunisian government met Wednesday to discuss adopting a new system of penalties regarding drugs that exclude jail time for the first and second offense. An official statement run by the state news agency said that the draft law on drug intends to repeal “the law number 52 dated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime social media activists have mourned 20 regime army troops said they had been killed on Wednesday in Sheikh Miskeen town in the southern province of Daraa, including Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Al Ali, the commander of the military campaign with 5 more officers. Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have thwarted regime attack on Sheikh Miskeen town in the southern province of Daraa, field sources said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime army forces backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement have engaged in fierce clashes...

(The Guardian)- Three months of Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 2,300 people, a third of them civilians, a monitoring group has said. Russia began conducting its air war in Syria on 30 September in support of its embattled ally, President Bashar al-Assad. According to the...