e United States underestimates the long-term impact of civilian deaths on the success of military missions and is failing to implement lessons learned from 15 years in Afghanistan, according to a report released Wednesday. While the US military is committed to avoiding civilian casualties, the...

Writing by Abdul Salam Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al wasl)- Alaa Makhlouf, the personal assistant of Asma al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s wife, was killed, and different stories were told to explain his death. There are three scenarios point to the responsible for killing him: the...

Reporting by Omar la-Sheikh Mohamed; Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- After a month of it being banned, products and basic staples have returned to entering Daraa’s western countryside which is under control of Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an Islamic State-linked group, after the rebel...

Reporting by Ammar al-Bakkour; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- In the light of the increasing loss in Syrian regime military force following 5 years of outbreak of the Syrian revolution, the Assad regime restored to implementing what is called a settlement on the detainees in Adra...