The drumbeat of hammers echoes most mornings through suburban Denver, where Jay Small, the owner of company that frames houses, is building about 1,300 new homes this year. That's more than triple what he built a few years ago, when “you couldn’t buy a job” in the residential...

(The Daily Star)- A Syrian national with dozens of arrest warrants out for him over drug-related crimes was arrested Wednesday in the northern city of Tripoli. A police statement said Kh.D., described as “one of the most wanted fugitives,” was found with 12 grams of Salvia packed in seven...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Once again, bread crisis returned to the Northern countryside of Homs, especially Rastan city that has the highest gathering of civilians in Homs countryside. The special point in the bread crisis this time that it coincided with wheat harvest and the price...

Air raids have hit four makeshift hospitals in Syria's battered Aleppo city, doctors said Sunday, jeopardising medical care for more than 200,000 desperate civilians in rebel-held areas. The bombardment since Saturday has worsened the plight of residents of besieged eastern neighbourhoods of...