An estimated 600 Saudis have joined al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria fighting against President Bashar’s al-Assad’s regime, a Saudi expert in Islamist movements told Al Arabiya’s weekly program “death making” on Friday. Faris Bin Hizam said many Saudis are fighting on the...
More than two and a half years into the civil war devastating Syria, the United States and Russia are pushing the combatants to the negotiating table in Geneva, but on terms that mark a shift in favor of Bashar al-Assad against the increasingly fragmented rebels seeking to...
It mystifies me how in spite of all the disasters that are happening in Syria, Syrians seem to have been taken with the news of the Etilaf’s president, Ahmad Jarba, slapping the SMC’s coordinator, Louay AlMokdad, across the face. For the purposes of this reflection, the...
An armed group broke into the Office of Zaman Alwasl in Aleppo, in search of our reporter, Ra’fat Al-Rifaei, who has been asked for leaving hours before the assault over torrent of threats, late on Thursday. According to eyewitnesses and colleagues...
