(Zaman Al Wasl)- A leaked document obtained by Zaman al-Wasl reveals the names of 170 political prisoners detained in Palmyra (Tadmour) Prison whom the al-Assad regime transferred to Tartus before the Islamic State forces took control of the city in 2015. The document was leaked by an official...

Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from Syria, Yemen, Turkey or Sudan, according to the United Nations' refugee point man in the country. In an interview, Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the representative in Canada of the...

(BBC)- The imagery is all too familiar. A family on the move, their meagre belongings carried on their heads; a cluster of frightened children gripping a mother figure; the body of a victim cradled on the ground by a woman. These are depictions of the war in Syria - but they have been...

The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China's upcoming defense budget as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power around the globe. China's navy has been taking an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with a...