(EQTSAD)- For more than four year, 44 paintings by the Syrian artist Asaad Farazat, valued at $70,000, have been held by the owner of a gallery in Amman, Jordan. The gallery owner gave no reasons for refusing to give the paintings up to Jordanian customs after they were sent to be displayed in...

 Syrian President Bashar Assad met Thursday with a high-level Russian delegation advocating for jointly hosting an international conference on refugees in the capital Damascus next month. Western nations and many of the more than 5.6 million Syrian refugees are against an international...

A local network reported that, since the beginning of this year, 77 “settlement” volunteers in the loyalist militias and regime soldiers from the eastern and western countryside of Damascus, have been killed in the fighting in northern Syria. The “Sawt al Asima” network said that...

The United States and several Western allies Tuesday accused the Syrian government of deliberately delaying the drafting of a new constitution to waste time until presidential elections in 2021, and avoid UN-supervised voting as called for by the UN Security Council. US deputy ambassador...