Germany says it will take in a further 5,000 refugees from Syria, doubling its current offer of shelter for people fleeing the Arab nation's civil war. The decision was announced Friday at a meeting of officials from Germany's 16 states, which share responsibility for housing...

The checkpoints of Shi’ite Militias have become remarkably widespread in regime-held areas of Aleppo amid decreasing for presence of Assad's forces, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. They wear black costumes with green and red bands, inscribed with sectarian slogans, their...

The founder of Free Syrian Army denounced to Zaman Alwasl the rumors of being kidnapped or pledging allegiance to Al-Qaeda affiliates.  ‘’I have not been kidnapped in Turkey as well I have not pledged allegiance to State of Iraq and The Levant,’’ Colonel Riad...

Suhair Atassi is a hard stone, can not be shifted, activists said after keeping her post as president of the controversial Aid Coordination Unit. ‘’As regime as opposition,’’ others said, in reference to the mentality of some opposition figures. Atassi posted...