The world community has yet to find an adequate response to cultural destruction as shown by the deliberate wrecking of ancient sites in Syria and Mali by Islamist radicals, the head of the UN's cultural organization said. Irina Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Major General Jayez Rayan al-Musa, the military commander of the brutal aerial campaign on northern province of Aleppo and regime’s Air Force Chief of Staff, can be ranked as one of the regime's savage officers. The Sunni General who could only assume this post after he...

A tentative deal has been reached to end a strike in a Syrian prison by nearly 800 mostly political detainees that would eventually lead to the pardon and release of those held without charges, rights groups and activists in touch with inmates said on Monday. They said the deal brokered late on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighting between Islamic State fighters and regiem forces continued for the third day near al-Shaer gas field east of Homs city, as the radical group's accounts reprted killing of 30 regime troops, sources said. The clashes that erupted on Sunday to capture al-Shaer gas field...