Condemning Syria's "barbaric" sieges, the United Nations demanded Friday immediate access to besieged towns to deliver food, medicine and other life-saving aid to civilians facing starvation. "There can be no reason or rational, no explanation or excuse, for preventing aid from reaching...

The U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF on Friday confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in the besieged western Syrian town of Madaya, where local relief workers reported 32 deaths of starvation in the past month. A mobile clinic and medical team of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent was on...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- Nabil Abdul latif al-Fadli, a Saudi-born Syrian who killed 10 German tourists in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, was planning a major attack on New Year's Eve celebrations in Ankara but changed targets after the plot was foiled, two senior Turkish officials have told...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- Syrian businessmen even the loyalists to the regime are not protected from being chased by the Syrian intelligence, as was shown via the archive of 1.7 million of the Syrian intelligence Zaman Al Wasl obtains. Eqtsad will publish more...