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Latakia: Looting acts reported in Al-Assad Hospital

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The doctors and staff in al-Assad Hospital in coastal Latakia city are pursuing a policy of loot as hospital will be turned over to the regime Ministry of Defense in 2 January 2017 based on al-Assad’s decision issued in the last week of November. Social media pages and...

Dispute holds up evacuation from 'hell' of Aleppo

The evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after pro-government militias demanded that wounded people should also be brought out of two Shi'ite villages being besieged by rebel fighters. The second day of the operation to take...

Aleppo evacuees tell of pain and dreams of returning

"It was the final time I saw Aleppo." Among a sea of sobbing men and hungry children Friday, Mohammad mourned his evacuation from his home town and Syria's second city. "It was catastrophic... I was kicked out of my homeland," the university professor told AFP in English at a staging ground...

UN chief calls for Aleppo evacuation to resume

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged Syrian parties to resume the evacuation of civilians from Aleppo after operations were suspended in the battered city. "Aleppo is now a synonym for hell," Ban said in his final news conference before he steps down as U.N. chief on Dec. 31....