A reporter for Britain's Times newspaper who hit the headlines after being kidnapped and shot in Syria said Saturday that a recent Facebook video appeared to show the gunman was now a U.S.-backed rebel. Anthony Loyd was seized along with photographer Jack Hill in 2014 as they were returning to...

 As U.S.-led coalition jets from a Turkish air base began to pound Islamic State targets in Syria in the summer of 2015, Ilhami Bali passed on what appeared to be an order from the militant group's leadership in Raqqa: unleash war on Turkey. Bali, identified by Turkish prosecutors as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Civil Defense groups in Latakia countryside and Idlib countryside warned of the danger of unexploded cluster bombs spread intensively in the orchards and forests as many injuries were recorded. The Russian and Assad warplanes dropped thousands of cluster bombs on Latakia and...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- An official document from the regime intelligence revealed the intelligence monitoring the activity of churches, watching the clergymen overseeing them, evaluating them in terms of reputation and political orientation, and their legal, financial and...