Translation by Dani Murad ( Zaman Alwasl )- Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, Syrians have been arbitrarily arrested, detained, physically abused, harassed, and tortured by the government forces, pro-regime militias, and mainly by the...

(Reuters) - Tribal leaders and clerics from Iraq's Sunni heartland offered their conditional backing on Friday for a new government that hopes to contain sectarian bloodshed and an offensive by Islamic State militants that threatens to tear the country apart. One of the...

(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents "massacred" some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday. "They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon," senior...

By Al Hussein Al Shishakli (Zaman Alwasl)- At least 27 opposition figures have nominated themselves to lead National Coalition’s interim government according to Friday’s list which seen by Zaman Alwasl. The most likely candidates are form government’s head Dr....