( Financial Times )- For years, Ammar’s tiny money transfer shop in the Turkish city of Antakya caught no one’s attention but the fellow Syrian refugees who pressed inside to send and receive money from abroad, until this summer, when security officials started visiting every week....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has been holding for several weeks a number of residents of Deir al-Zour who were based in the capital Damascus to pressure Jiash Usud al-Sharqiya so far refuses to enter into a negotiation process that does not include the release faction military prisoners....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that he is concerned Iran and its Shiite allies are expanding their presence in Syria as Moscow works to tamp down the Syrian civil war, Israeli officials said. Russia has been the main broker...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Tens of thousands of loyal fighters from the coastal region of Syria have become crippled and dependent on their families and society, after fighting to defend the al-Assad regime. Now that they are of no service to the regime, the regime offers them no support and they have no...