In a striking statement, Hassan Soufan, a member of the Civil Peace Committee in Syria, revealed an ambiguous approach to dealing with the cases of senior officials of the former Assad regime, most notably former Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar and former head of the Political Security...

In the wake of major transformations experienced by any country undergoing a revolution, complex legal and constitutional challenges arise. Perhaps the most prominent of these challenges is the vacuum left by the fall of the constitution and the dilemma surrounding the fate of the laws that...

  It’s been about 150 days since Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam took office. On one hand, Lebanon is experiencing its best chapter in two decades. On the other hand, there are concerns about the slow pace of progress – and that another war is on the verge of erupting. Regardless of...

Zaman al-Wasl was able to uncover the fate of Shadi Ghazi al-Muhammad, whose photo appeared among the photos of detainees from the National Defense Forces militia that the newspaper previously published. Shadi, born in 1998, was arrested in 2013 by members of the National Defense Forces,...