(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...

Algerians are set to vote Sunday in a constitutional referendum the government touts as heralding a "new republic", but a long-running protest movement rejects the exercise as window-dressing. Observers see the constitution as the centrepiece of now-hospitalised President Abdelmadjid...

Clashes Tuesday in the Syrian desert between Russia-backed regime forces and Daesh (ISIS) militants have killed almost 30 fighters, a Britain-based war monitor said. Battles have been ongoing in Syria's vast Badia desert since the start of the month, with regime forces supported by Russian...

 Pro-Turkish Syrian rebels pounded Moscow-backed regime forces with rocket and artillery fire in northwest Syria Tuesday, a day after Russian aircraft killed dozens among their ranks, a monitor said. The air strikes Monday hit a training camp of the Faylaq al-Sham faction near the...