Bashar al-Assad's rise to power after three decades of his father's iron-fisted rule raised hope of democratic opening. But 20 years later, Syria is isolated and war-ravaged. Crumbling under a stinging economic downturn, Western sanctions and nine years of war, Syria today is a far cry from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees, who fled the Syrian conflict to Europe, have found themselves surrounded by pro-Bashar al-Assad militias who obtained refugee status after concealing war crimes against the Syrian people.  Zaman al-Wasl Arabic has revealed the identity of a new...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmad Yusef al-Arsali is a Syrian refugee in Germany who claimed he had fled the war and Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny and suppression but Zaman al-Wasl sources confirm that he was an agent in the Air Force Intelligence, the notorious security branch that committed war...

French police on Saturday arrested one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, describing him as its "financier" and one of the world's most wanted fugitives. Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the...