CAIRO (AP) — Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows laden with sand to open a new shaft at a bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists supervise from garden chairs. The dig is at the foot of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, arguably the world’s oldest...

Bashar al-Assad has appointed Mohamed Khaled Nasri as a Director General of the Center for Scientific Studies and Research, succeeding Amr Armanazi who held the post for 22 years.   Nasri, who ran the Institute 1000 in the scientific research center, is considered as one the...

Syrian regime forces and allied militias have deliberately intensified artillery and missile bombardment on agricultural areas in rebel-held northwestern Syria, setting huge fires to wheat and barley crops, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.    The regime forces stationed in the...

  At least 252 Palestinian refugees from Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, have been forcibly disappeared in the Syrian regime prisons since the conflict erupted 10 years ago, monitoring group said Saturday. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said 25 women...