Trapped in a basement for three days with his family as Turkey shelled their northern Syrian hometown of Jandairis, Merhi Hassan fled just in time to escape bombardment that almost killed his elderly father. The family piled into a rusted pickup truck with whatever they could scavenge...

Alibaba's Taobao website and numerous public markets around the world were cited Friday as purveyors of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pirated goods in the US government's annual "notorious markets" review. The report by the US Trade Representative spotlighted online venues that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese hospital is holding a Syrian refugee woman and her newborn as her husband can not afford the $2000 bill.  Ali Jumaa al-Qasum, father, told Zaman al-Wasl that he had taken his wife to the hospital in the Zaghrata region for a caesarean operation at one of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The educational process in Syrian opposition-held eastern Qalamoun region is facing many challenges and difficulties as most schools suffer lack of textbooks provided by the regime. Hazem Bakr, a pseudonym for a faculty member in the tow of al-Rahiba northeastern...