Colonel Wassim Hassan, the former director of Sednaya prison, died of a heart attack on Saturday, the Sednaya Prison Detainees and Missing Association said.   The Sednaya slaughterhouse had witnessed during Hassan’s era the execution of at least 500 opposition rebels...

 The military intelligence division on Saturday made several transfers in top positions within the notorious security apparatus, military source told Zaman al-Wasl.   Brigadier General Suleiman Moussa Qanat was appointed as the head of Branch 261 in central Homs city. He was the...

Zaman Al-Wasl learned that the Syrian regime has appointed Major General Ali Youssef Hamad as Director of the Electronic Warfare Administration, succeeding Major General Younis Aziz Ali, who was referred to retirement.   Hamad, originally from Homs province, graduated from the Higher...

 (AP) — Where is Sheikh Jaber? Kuwait was abuzz with the question as citizens on social media demanded to know the whereabouts of their 79-year-old former prime minister. He'd been ordered detained pending trial in an unprecedented move last month over the alleged embezzlement of...