(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 338 people, including 69 children and 47 women, have been killed in three-week-old offensive on Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Syrian capital, local monitoring group said in report issued Wednesday. The central department of statistics and documentation in the...

The annual birth rate in Syria has fallen by more than half since the civil war broke out in 2011, Al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday. Salah al-Sheikha, dean of Damascus University's faculty of medicine, told the newspaper that before the war Syria recorded around 500,000 births per year....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad )- Souq al Amara, a small and popular marketplace near the Old City of Damascus where almost everything needed for food can be found, but the only difference from the capital’s markets is the low prices where poor and middle class people can...

By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Special)- Only few Hours after the bloody attacks of Paris that killed more than 130 people ,  Bashar al-Assad met a number of French parliamentarians, intellectuals and media figures in his presidential palace, ...