(Reuters) - Around 15,000 antiquities locked away in safes around the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib are at risk of being sold on the black market, the head of antiquities and museums Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters on Friday. The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and other insurgents...

  Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State on Friday have seized more neighborhoods in the vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus, a bid to capture the group's first major foothold close to Bashar al-Assad's seat of power, activists and monitoring group...

Fighters proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday, a bid to capture the group's first major foothold close to President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power. Islamic State fighters already control...

Damascus (AFP) - Syria's government, presiding over an economy ravaged by war and facing dwindling foreign currency reserves, is taking new measures to slash imports and prop up exports. Importers require government licences that allow them to request a favourable exchange rate at the...