Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- “when the fox is caught, he plays dead,” an expression a colleague on Facebook “made as a special dedication to BBC’s professional consciousness and the English humanitarian consciousness on the eve of...

Syrian government troops surrounded Hama prison in the west of the country on Monday and fired tear gas after inmates revolted, seizing several guards, a monitoring group reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said inmates were protesting against the planned transfer of a number of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Once Syria's powerful rebel alliance, the Army of Conquest, is due to reunite after months of discord and rifts, pushed by the regime's major offensive on northern province of Aleppo, senior rebel commander said Monday. The alliance that was formed in March 2015, and took vast...

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad Monday, killing at least 14 people, including Shiite Muslim worshipers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources said. The largest blast, which ISIS said it was behind, came from a parked car bomb in the Saydiya...