Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The Syrian rural areas, especially rural Damascus, have lost its characteristics and started to lose its three distinctive features: people, trees and buildings after 5 years of devastating war waged by the regime and regional allies. Comparing between the...

The United States and its allies are probably many weeks or even months away from launching a new military campaign against Islamic State in Libya, despite mounting concern about the group's spread there and its attacks on oil infrastructure, U.S. officials say. The Pentagon...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and Shiite allies have pressed more advances on Friday in the northern province of Aleppo, activists and regime-run media said. Regime troops and their Lebanese and Iranian allies fully encircled the countryside north of Aleppo and cut off the main supply...

The Turkish army has confiscated 700 parrots and 294 budgerigars on the border with Syria, it said on Friday, as its tighter security measures ensnare what was once a thriving trade in domesticated birds. NATO member Turkey has stepped up security along its 900-km (560-mile)...