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, ...

French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by ISIS, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris's worst ever attacks. French authorities Saturday named the first attacker as 29-year-old Omar Ismail...