Not every report to emerge from Syria is bad news for Bashar al-Assad. Yes, the world's jihadists may be  flying  from Accrington to Aleppo to fillet his soldiers with bullets. But it turns out Bashar has violent friends in far-off places, too. Since the conflict began in 2011,...

In a religious country such as Egypt, despite atheism being a taboo highly frowned upon, atheists say their numbers are on the rise. But with any new movement taking hold, a cultural backlash is bound to ensue .   In an attempt to understand the...

Stories of women entering Syria on a “Sex Jihad” have taken the media by storm. But are any of them actually true?  Leila, 23, still blushes when she talks about her first kiss. Now heavily pregnant with her first child, she says she didn’t even hold hands with a boy until she...

 Zaman Alwasl tried to explore part of the activity of   the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS”  in Deir ez-Zour, one of the most important province in East Syria, because news has been spreading about ISIS determination to extend its influence on this...