Does this office honor the Syrian woman? Or is it just a shocking distraction that exploits women in order to draw favorable publicity towards an unpopular parliament, and to give a new legitimacy to the regime?
Loyalists fear decline in security after assailant robs and assaults woman inside the capital’s main court house
The Ahrar al-Sham court is a coalition of three Islamist opposition groups: Ahrar al-Sham, Suqur al-Sham and Faylaq al-Sham
“She left for school and never came back. We tried reporting her absence to the police but we got nowhere. She has been gone for over a month now”
Hadiyeh Khalaf Abbas elected as first female Speaker of Syria’s People’s Assembly
Police source confirms snipers killed a woman in Ramouseh district while shelling killed three others throughout the city
The proposal was made in a letter from Riad Hijab, the coordinator of the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Official sources report civilian deaths and injuries, including a pregnant woman, as shells fall on a number of neighborhoods of Aleppo and Deir-ez-Zor
Bodies of 31 people discovered in countryside of Palmyra following Syrian army’s recapture of the desert city from ISIS in March
Daraya, whose residents continue to live through a gruelling four-year blockade, has largely been forgotten by the outside world as the regime attempts to enact a ‘submit or starve’ policy on the rebel-held city
Despite his absence, he was present: Where does he get food? How does he stand this cold? Is he married? Does he have children? What does he look like? Where is he from? Is he Syrian?
Young Syrians are calling for changes to old-fashioned marriage customs as economic and social pressures as well as violence against women witness a rise
News of Russian foreign ministry official mocking Syrian president circulates through national media in most recent instance of Russian criticism of Assad regime
The world’s response to the misery of Syrians, both those residing there and the refugees, is a mark of shame upon our humanity in general and upon its strength and its capacity
Since its 2012 launch, the Molham organisation has conducted 11 different fundraising campaigns to assist refugee camps, field hospitals and besieged areas such as Zabadani, Homs and Al-Qusair
Despite a UN-backed truce, residents of the Homs neighborhood continue to suffer from severe food and medicine shortages as well as cuts in most vital services
Zaman al-Wasl speaks to painter of ‘Syria Lisa,’ a new work by Anwar Malik depicting a woman emerging from the rubble in Aleppo that has been widely circulated on social media
Many Syrians in Turkey’s southern city are living in abandoned “ruins” without access to vital services and proper education after having survived the conflict south of the border
Joint mission of Syrian and Polish specialists analyze extent of destruction wreaked by ISIS in the ancient city of Palmyra
Assad forces release detainees Ahmad Khatib and Thaer Qadi after being detained for four and a half years
