Assad's intelligence had banned broadcasting of the famous Syrian soap operas criticizing the Assad regime in the public coffee shops of Lattakia, the regime stronghold, activist reported to Zaman Alwasl. 'Al-Weladah Min al-Khaserh' the name of the TV-drama series has...

  Kurds from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria have agreed to convene a pan-Kurdish congress to tackle historical divisions and position themselves to take full advantage of regional upheaval, according to Reuters. Often described as the world's largest ethnic group without a state of their...

    The wife of acclaimed Syrian artist Youssef Abdelke, whose works are displayed in museums around the world, appealed for his release on Saturday, after his arrest by regime security forces.   He had been arrested at a security checkpoint in the western port city of...

A senior United Nations team tasked with investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war began a mission to Damascus Wednesday, trying to hammer out with Syrian officials the terms for their investigation. It is the first such trip by international experts, and the...