As details from the summary of a  6,000-page U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture and detention methods used by the CIA surface, politicians, leaders and critics have reacted with outrage. The report summary disclosed not only that "waterboarding"...

By Fathi Ibrahim Bayoud; Translation by yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- I wish Syrians’ little dream to renew their passports was not that complicated and victim of opposition’s conflict of interest. However, the scary thing happened, and dream...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought to spur climate envoys to action Thursday as the annual UN summit entered its final phase with an accord far off. The world faced a “massive moral failure of historical consequences” if it failed to act decisively in reining in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have circulated online video showing how Syrian rebels and Islamist battalions stormed regime bases in the embattled town of Daraya west Damascus during this week, taking control on few points after violent...