People of the prominent Damascus Suburb, Daraya have established a charity institution to look after families of martyrs and wounded, they named it “Ghiath Matar organization,” Sources reported to Zaman Alwasl. The institution relies on donations and charity...

  Iran's deputy oil minister, Ali Majedi, said Monday on that Pakistan must finance a controversial pipeline that would enable it to buy gas from the Islamic republic. Majedi's remarks come after Pakistan's Oil Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi asked Iran to stump up $2 billion (1.45...

The United Nations warned Monday of a major rise in homeless numbers in Syria, and called for greater UN Security Council pressure to seek access to the war-stricken nation. UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the council that 9.3 million people now need outside help to survive, up...

A commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been killed in  Syria  after volunteering to defend a Shi'ite shrine in Damascus, the Iranian Mehr news agency said on Monday. Commander Mohammad Jamalizadeh of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the southeastern...