Towns and villages in Syria that have been home to Christians for hundreds of years are being steadily emptied by sectarian violence and targeted kidnappings. Tens of thousands Syriac Christians – members of the oldest Christian community in the world – have fled their ancestral...

       29 members of the Opposition National Coalition have joined the veteran dissident Haytham al-Maleh in his claims about the invalidity of political commission election as well as the coalition expanding.   The petition has just came after a letter...

  The security situation is more complicated in Jarmana, 10Km, southern Damascus, reliable source told Zaman Alwasl. ''Large numbers of the pro-Assad militia (Popular committees) in the city with Druze majority, had delivered back their weapons to Assad Army,'' the source said....

Street names in Syria’s far northeastern corner have been changed from Arabic to Kurdish, schools openly teach the Kurdish language, and the country’s most powerful Kurdish militia flies its flag from checkpoints on main roads. Across northeastern Syria, the Kurds, the...