More than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, have been killed in Syria's uprising-turned-civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The pro-opposition Observatory said the period since the "Geneva 2" peace talks for  Syria  began last...

  Interim Defence Minister of the opposition government has retracted his resignation due to Turkish and American pressure, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl. The source, based in Istanbul, said Dr. Asaad Mustafa has been subjected to an intense pressure since he...

 First episode of Syrian sitcom ‘President and Women’,  produced by Zaman Alwasl, is streaming today on YouTube, where viewers can weekly watch the episodes of the series. The political sitcom follows in a comedian approach the relationship between presidents of the...

Lebanon announced a new government on Saturday, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which spillover violence from neighboring Syria worsened internal instability. A caretaker government has run the country since former Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned in March as...