(Writing by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl-Leaked Documents)- An official document issued in 2013, unveiled the extent of discrimination taking place in distributing weapons on the branches and directorates of regime’s...
Italy's navy says it has picked up nearly 3,000 people in the last 24 hours as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean by boat. The navy released pictures on Saturday showing the rescue of migrants from overcrowded and unsafe boats. The video showed at least 450 people being...
(Writing by Farsi al-Rifai- Translation by Dani Murad) (Eqtsad)- A water crisis in the horizon, as Euphrates water has been witnessing an unprecedented deterioration in the last few months, especially after the Turks cut off the river’s flow from...
In statement issued Saturday, rebel and jihadist groups in Hama have announced the province a military zone by June 2, day before the planned presidential elections. The rebel factions of the famous war-torn city in the last century eighties,...
Syrian refugees in Lebanon will lose their status as such if they return home for a visit, the interior ministry said Saturday. At the same time, there are calls for deporting those who voted in an election in which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is certain to win. More...
Syrian rebels have killed 11 soldiers after targeting their barrack in Daraya suburb near Damascus, activists and media outlets reported Saturday. The regime warplanes have retaliated by striking the embattled city with barrel bombs leaving massive...
(Al Arabiya)- Sarah Abushaar, the daughter of a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother who was born in the United States and raised in Kuwait, addressed the Harvard Commencement 2014 on Thursday. Her speech titled “The Harvard Spring” sought to provide homage the pro-democracy...
(Reuters)-At least 20 regime soldiers died after Syrian rebels detonated a large bomb in a tunnel under the old city of Aleppo on Saturday (May 31) during fighting with government forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a human rights monitoring group with a...
An American fighting for a hardline Islamist group carried out a deadly suicide bombing in Syria, US officials said Friday, in the first such case in the war. The confirmation came amid growing fears over the flood of foreigners into Syria, with no end in sight in the three-year...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Kawthar Mohamed Ezzo, the child girl with Leishmaniasis is in good care as the Turkish Health Minister ordered to provide the appropriate treatment amid impressive interaction by activists. Two days ago, Zaman Alwasl...
(Reuters) - A Pakistani man whose pregnant wife was bludgeoned to death by angry family members who did not approve of the marriage fondly recalled a brief life together with the woman he fell in love with at first sight. Farzana Iqbal, 25, was murdered by a group of assailants...
(Reuters) - The defeated candidate in Egypt's presidential election, Hamdeen Sabahi, appealed on Friday against results that gave former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi victory, saying election rules had been broken. Leftist politician Sabahi won 3 percent of votes in the...
(Reuters) - Syria's economy , rocked by four years of civil war, is shrinking fast as industrial and agricultural output falls, leaving almost two thirds of the population in extreme poverty, according to a U.N. sponsored report released on Wednesday. The study, conducted by...
The trial of a former Lebanese minister accused of plotting attacks and transporting explosives has been postponed to December 5, a judicial source told AFP on Friday. Michel Samaha was due to face a military court on Friday but the judge, Brigadier General Khalil Ibrahim,...
Syria's most extremist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have kidnapped nearly 200 Kurdish civilians from the Aleppo area, a monitor said on Friday. "Fighters from ISIL on Thursday kidnapped at least 193 Kurdish civilians aged from 17 to 70 years from the...
At least 20 people were killed in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Qasr on Friday when barrel bombs dropped by Basher al-Assad’s forces on the embattled neighborhood, activists and monitoring group said. Sources to Zaman Alwasl said that army troops have...
Pope Francis warned Friday that the millions of people affected by the Syria crisis risk being forgotten because of the "globalisation of indifference" toward the conflict. The international community risks "forgetting the daily victims, the unspeakable suffering, the thousands...
Iran said Friday that next week's presidential election in Syria, branded a farce by Western governments, will boost the legitimacy of its ally Bashar al-Assad. "God willing, the elections in Syria will be carried out without a hitch," said Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior...
DAMASCUS, May 30 (Reuters) - As Syria approaches a surreal presidential election in the midst of civil war, the capital has avoided the worst of the conflict but reminders are increasingly coming out the water taps and appearing on the dinner table, to the dismay of Damascenes....
BEIRUT (AP) — Crude bombs dropped by Syrian government forces on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo have killed nearly 2,000 people so far this year, an activist group said Friday. The grim figure is the latest addition to the deadly tally from Syria's civil war,...
