Daraa (southern Syria) - Riad al-Zein Syrian youths seeking to avoid mandatory military service by the regime usually flee to the southern provinces of Daraa and Sweida where some regions are still outside the control of the regime. The regime tried to take advantage of the situation by...

(Xinhua) -- At his workshop in Syria's central province of Hama, 42-year-old heaters maker Abdullah Ali Twait recalls how his business had thrived after the outbreak of the country's civil war 11 years ago. To cope with the protracted fuel shortage in the war-torn country, Twait has...

Syria's largest Palestinian camp was once bustling with activity: It was crowded with mini-buses and packed with shops hawking falafel, shawarma and knafeh nabulsieh — a sweet concoction of cheese and phyllo dough. Kids played soccer and brandished plastic guns until men with real guns...

While Damascus cuts subsidies and Syrians prepare for a brutal winter, cosmetic surgeries are likely to boom after regulations are lifted A preliminary budget for 2023 has been passed by the Syrian government that includes a 24 percent rise in spending, as a long winter of uncertainty and...