United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "great shock" on Tuesday over reports of a massacre in the Syrian village of Maan. A statement released by Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said the UN leader was disturbed by reports of killings in Maan on February 9. "Dozens of...

 The Assad regime has circulated news about the imminent victory on what it calls “terrorists” before the end of Geneva II talks i n regime-held areas of Aleppo, .  Many people in Aleppo told Zaman Alwasl that they heard soldiers on barriers talking about this...

  Syrian authorities have detained 336 men who left Homs and are still questioning most of them without direct supervision by any neutral third party, the  United Nations  said on Tuesday. The men, deemed to be of fighting age by the Syrian authorities, were among...

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital and cities around the country to mark the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. In Tehran, huge crowds thronged central Azadi square on Tuesday for a speech by the president Hassan Rouhani, his...