The response was immediate and unequivocal: Weeks after the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and mere days after popular protests spread across Egypt, Syria’s president insisted his country would not be next. Assad claimed his regime was ‘very closely linked...

Turkey fired artillery into Syria to retaliate after a cross-border rocket from the war-torn country had slammed into a mosque, Turkish media said Monday amid heightened tensions. The rocket from Syria wounded an elderly Syrian refugee woman in Hatay province on...

In an attempt to understand strategies the Syrian regime uses to keep the dollar exchange rate at SP 150, Zaman alwasl has met Samir Seifan, an economist and researcher, to explain some economic issues affecting Syrian economy and budget. Seifan said that strategy Syrian...

It is already past lunchtime and souvenir shop owner Halil Santoglu has yet to make a sale - a frequent complaint these days in this once bustling bazaar as the war in nearby  Syria wreaks havoc with the  economy  of Turkey's southern borderlands. Santoglu and...