BEIRUT, Lebanon — American support for a pair of diplomatic initiatives in Syria underscores the shifting views of how to end the civil war there and the West’s quiet retreat from its demand that the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad , step down immediately. The Obama...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge demonstration gathered on Sunday in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus, to protest against the starving policy the Syrian regime practices against people by closing all crossing...

  (AFP)- Syrian forces have evacuated nearly 4,000 people from a rebel bastion close to Damascus that has been under government siege for nearly two years, state media said Sunday. The mass evacuation from Eastern Ghouta was also reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- General Director of Al Jazeera Media Network, on his Facebook page, has mourned Rizq al-Masalmeh, one of al-Jazeera’s staff who passed away in Doha due to a heart attack this week. Rizq was the...