Syria's army Tuesday turned its sights on the town of Yabrud, the last rebel stronghold in the strategic Qalamoun region near Lebanon's border, as it moved to open a key highway to Damascus. The town is believed to be where a group of nuns from the historic Christian hamlet of Maalula...

Syria's Islamic Front has controlled Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey today, promising better services and more secure condition, IF  source told to Zaman Alwasl .   On 19 July 2012, the Free Syrian Army seized the border and defaced images of Bashar al-Assad...

  Razan Zaitouneh, a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who went into hiding for her widely publicized work on atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, has been kidnapped in a rebel-held town, activists said on Tuesday. Zaitouneh is a key figure in the...

  A group of Al Jazeera correspondents, Arab leading Satellite Channel, launched an initiative to build 500 rooms near the Turkish borders to host 3000 Syrian refugees at least, Zaman Alwasl reporter said. The ‘generous initiative’ led by the veteran Syrian journalist...