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War reduces Syria’s wheat crop to smallest in 30 years

 Syria’s wheat crop this year was the smallest in three decades as war and drought cut production by around 30 percent, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday. Output of 1.2 million tons in 2018 was the lowest since 1989 and compared with a pre-crisis average...

Syrian orphans centers suffer lack of fund

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The scarcity of funding increases the probability of the closure of the "Orphan’s Cry" center, for orphans of Syrian refugees, in the Turkish Yildag region on the Syrian-Turkish border. According to Ahmed Bdeiwi, the media official of the center, the fundings were...

Assad offers amnesty to deserters and draft dodgers

The Syrian regime has announced an amnesty for men who deserted the army or have avoided military service, giving them several months to report for duty without facing punishment, it said Tuesday. The fear of conscription, and potential punishment for ducking it or for desertion, is...