(The Financial Times)- ISIS may be claiming to wage a holy war for Islam but the self-declared caliphate is as vulnerable to the region's deep-seated corruption as the secular Iraqi and Syrian regimes it displaced. Evidence from its former...

Reporting by Samir al-Taweel; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad )- The representative of the Syrian community in Egypt said in a statement to Eqtsad that about 8 to 9 thousands of Syrian children had dropped out of school, especially basic education stage. "The Syrian...

(The National)- One of the common sentences repeatedly said by Syrians from the two main warring sides is that the solution to the conflict is attainable when the “big guys” decide to end it. Those big guys – at the UN Security Council – passed a unanimous decision on Friday...

Lebanon's Hezbollah group on Monday said it would retaliate for the killing of prominent militant Samir Qantar in an Israeli air strike in Syria, after giving him an elaborate funeral in Beirut of the kind reserved for its top commanders. Thousands of people chanted "death to...