National Defense Army, pro-Assad's militia, said 200 fighters were killed since the beginning of the offensive, reliable source told Zaman Alwasl. Assad's troops fought with rebels in Homs in a battle seen as crucial to the Assad's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held...

   Syrian Embassy in Saudi Arabia raised the Passport costs for the Syrian residents in the Kingdom, sources affirmed to Zaman Alwasl. The new issuing price is 1345 Riyals, equal 400$, before 500 Riyals, 150$. There's new list of prices will be applied in all embassies....

“I am coming down in 5 minutes. No! Wait, I need to see you before we go to my family. He comes in and I expectbad news. What happened? My brother! Dead?! He cries and hands me his iphone to read a skype conference with his brother in Syria.” His brother is serving in the...

For months, the western rural region of Homs was an unusual model of coexistence in Syria's brutal two-year-old civil war. Now, it risks becoming a dark episode in the country's deepening sectarian conflict. Syria's uprising-turned-war has forced most Syrians to take sides in a struggle that...