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...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- It seems that protesting against Bashar al-Assad has begun to be intensified in the Alawite villages more than ever before especially after increasing in the amount of their lost of fighters and Shabiha. this time,...

(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...