U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, said that Assad's regime had delivered to Russia, the names of its representative who will participate in the international conference on Syria very soon in Geneva. Kerry's statement, came from the Swedish capital, his currently visit. US...

  The American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published an Interview with Frederic Hof, former special adviser for transition in Syria at the U.S. Department of State. Titled '' The Hard Road to Syrian Peace". During the interview how dissolved an important American...

  Assad is clearly looking to exploit sectarian fault lines in his favor. Months of bloodshed have heightened sectarian tensions and ripped apart communities in ways that are reminiscent of Iraq, where violence in 2006-2007 effectively turned into real attempts at sectarian...

Set of decisions issued by the Shariah Judicial Council in Idlib, preventing, whereby, all excavations and antiquities trade, under penalty of confiscation of equipment and severe penalties against violators. According to Eqtsad,  Zaman Alwasl's fellow newspaper....

According to "Zaman Alwasl" sources, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, filed a complaint to the British government set against the BBC, accusing the well-know Broadcasting Corporation by lack of professionalism and credibility in regarding to Syrian...

What is the status of the situation in Syria? Syria's civil war continued unabated in early 2013 amid an international deadlock on how to mediate the conflict that has killed more than seventy thousand people and displaced millions more. Global concerns have mounted over allegations that...

 Moaz Al-Khatib, who recently resigned as the leader of Syria’s National Coalition, responded this morning to ‘leaked’ news in Zaman Al Wasl newspaper that alleges he is working on keeping President Bashar Al Assad in power. Background below his statement.  This is a...

Before the bloodshed of the civil war in Syria, the country’s economy was diverse. The most important sectors included agriculture (22 percent of the economy), industry and excavation (25 percent), retail (23 percent), and tourism (12 percent), according to 2009 figures quoted by the Syrian...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- “How many years have you been sentenced? Summing up his worries: Five years. With an honest smile: your imprisonment sentence is equal to the number of years that I spent in the prison toilet only.” Such a conversation that was never erased from the mind of D.S, a...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that the country’s vaccination campaign against the coronavirus pandemic is likely to roll out in February with imported vaccines. Speaking at a meeting in the capital Tehran, Rouhani said it is “necessary” to use foreign-manufactured vaccines...

As the world awaits steps by new US President Joe Biden to end the bloodshed in war-ravaged Yemen, UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths has come under fire from both rebel Houthis and President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government. Both parties accuse Griffiths, a former British diplomat, of...

Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission on Saturday called on participants in last year’s Berlin Conference to fulfill their obligations over the Libyan crisis, including the withdrawal of foreign mercenaries from the country. In a statement, the commission called for the “immediate removal...

Saudi Arabia intercepted a "hostile target" over Riyadh on Saturday, said state media in the kingdom which has come under repeated attack from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels since 2015. An explosion was heard in the Saudi capital at around 11:00 am (0800 GMT), AFP correspondents...