(New York Times)- Marhaf Homsi was not impressed with the baklava situation in New York. The pastries were too sweet for his taste, and there was often a filler like semolina mixed in with the nuts. The nuts themselves were pulverized and powdery, ruining the texture of the confection....

(Middle East Eye)-When the highly contagious, crippling and potentially fatal polio virus reappeared in war-torn Syria in 2013, nearly two decades after it had been eradicated in the country, Khaled Almilaji was a key player in containing the outbreak that threatened millions inside and beyond...

Syrian musician Kinan Azmeh has toured the world for years to international acclaim but his planned return on Thursday to his home in the United States has been thrown into uncertainty. The clarinettist and composer, who won standing ovations in Beirut on Wednesday night at the final...

(Eqtsad)- Medication crisis and shortage of most kind of drugs in Damascus is highly mentioned at social media websites, as people talk about lack of medicine and the difficulty of getting it in the capital, besides expressing anger on the regime and officials of the pharmaceutical sector...