The United States said on Wednesday it had agreed with Russia to extend a cessation of hostilities agreement to include Aleppo where intense day-long violence between Syrian rebels and government forces killed dozens of people. The State Department said the truce went into effect at 12:01 a.m....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- From their humble schools in the Kurds’ and Turkmen’s mountains, from their poor villages, the children of Latakia’s countryside moved with their parents to tents set up for them far away from the axis of conflict and regime bombing, hoping for safe residence. The...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman al-Wasl)- A Moroccan jihadist joined the Islamic State in 2014 admitted that his brother was the mastermind of the 2004 Madrid train bombing, or 11-M,  saying the brother had been killed later in Iraq, according to the leaked Isis registration forms. Abu...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Syrian and Arab poets rallied in an online poetry event to draw attention to the deteriorating situation in Aleppo as regime backed by Russia wage brutal aerial campaign on rebel-held areas. The event was...