Reporting by Ahmad Primo; Translation by Yusra Ahmed     (Zaman Alwasl-Special)- Journalist Rowaida Kana’an was detained in Syrian regime’s prisons for more than 10 months, before she with other 135 female detainees were assigned for...

BEIRUT (AP) — The widowed Syrian mechanic had a new lease on life after he married his second wife: he enrolled in a high school, graduating at 60. The couple had five children, living in an impoverished quarter of a town in northern Syria. They all died after a missile smashed...

(Zaman Alwasl) Islam Army announced Monday that its fighters had shot down a helicopter by Osa surface-to-air missile system near Damascus. Islam Army said in statement posted online that its fighters had downed a helicopter near Mleiha town...

The historic Christian town of Maalula stands a shadow of its former self, abandoned and war-scarred, a month after Syrian government forces expelled Islamist rebels. In the main square, with its posters of President Bashar al-Assad and slogans daubed on walls singing his...