Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance outside Damascus Friday for morning prayers marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, state media reported. Since the start of Syria's devastating conflict in 2011, Assad has only left the capital on a few occasions. This year,...

(Al Jazeera)- With its rows of identical cottages, country houses and immaculately trimmed lawns, the Oxford countryside is quintessentially English. Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer and his wife Nadia may have spent more than two decades here, but upon entering their house one is catapulted into...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prices of sacrificial animals in southern Daraa province, which has been liberated this year, have increased mostly due to the smuggling of livestock, high fodder prices and transportation costs. Awad al-Joudi, a sheep farmer in Daraa province said, "the few days...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Galilee Units, a Palestinian militia fighting with Assad forces in eastern Syria, has mourned 14 fighters on Thursday said they had been killed in clashes with the Islamic State last week.   Fadi Mallah, the commander of  Galilee Units  said his fighters...