Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa's novel "In Praise of Hatred" is in the list of "Top 100 Novels of All Time" with George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Emily Bronte, E. M. Forster,...

Progress in reaching a deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons helped put downward pressure on oil prices Friday. Benchmark oil for October delivery was down 31 cents to $106.09 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell...

    Jihad is no more a choice, according to a statement issued by Shariah Authority of Liwa'a al-Islam (Islam Brigade)  and other Jihadist groups  in Ghouta and Damascus suburbs. The circular demanded all Young men who born between (1994 -1983)...

 A ceasefire has been reached between the Free Syrian Army and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in the town of Azaz, near The Turkish borders under the patronage of al-Tawhid brigade,  according to activists .   Details of ISIS &FSA deal;...