Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- It is not the first time for the Syrian young man Ayham to lsoe his jon in Gaziantep, but it is the hardest, because it has coincided with the end of the year time, when most companies and business firms sammarise their annual account and...

(The Financial Times)- ISIS may be claiming to wage a holy war for Islam but the self-declared caliphate is as vulnerable to the region's deep-seated corruption as the secular Iraqi and Syrian regimes it displaced. Evidence from its former...

Islamic State is looking at potentially vulnerable oil assets in Libya and elsewhere outside its Syria stronghold, where the militant group controls about roughly 80 percent of the oil and gas fields, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. The official, who briefed reporters...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ( Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad) - When we talk about Arabic media tycoons we recall the name of Al-Waleed bin Talal, Saleh Kamel and Naguib Sawiris, and others, but in Syria, the Ministry of information have enabled certain people to control the media industry and...