(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime's military intelligence has carried out an arrest campaign tracking former rebels fighters who agreed on reconciliation deal in the southern suburbs of Damascus, local activists said Wednesday. The notorious Military Security Division, known as...

raq Tuesday began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims, including children, likely killed during ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's campaign against the country's Kurds, a forensics official told AFP. The mass grave was uncovered in Tal al-Sheikhiya, about 300 kilometers south of Baghdad,...

Brainwashed and broken, the Islamic State group's youngest victims are struggling to recover from years of jihadist captivity as they return to their own traumatised minority communities in Iraq. Dozens of Yazidi and Turkmen children were rescued in recent months as IS's "caliphate",...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad, in wild-scale appointments for top intelligence officials since first of July, has appointed Maj. Gen. Nasser al-Ali as the new head of the Political Security Directorate (Division), successor to Maj. Gen. Hussam Louka who heads the General Intelligence...