Damascus countryside has been suffering from a severe siege for more than two months, resulted in difficulties to supply food, and it reached to an extent to consider getting bread into besieged areas a crime as weapons and arms trade, and do not forget the difficulty in providing medicines....

  An exchange agent in Damascus told “Eqtsad” that amounts of American dollars had been trading in the black market with an Iranian seal. The dollars stamped with phrase “Ya Zahra’a”, one of sacred Shiite's slogans that glorify al-Zahra’a, the daughter of...

 On July 8, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for a Ramadan ceasefire in Syria. Shorty after, both Iran and Turkey called for a stop to fighting for the month-long Muslim holiday. Neither the opposition or Syrian regime observed the calls. There have been numerous high-profile...

Kurdish fighters have expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain near Turkey, a watchdog said Wednesday, adding that only the border crossing remains under the extremists' control, according to AFP.   Kurdish fighters "have taken near-total control of...