Turkish forces will withdraw from the Syrian border region of Afrin, leaving it to its "real owners", once it has been cleared of "terrorists", Turkey said on Monday. Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies swept into the regional capital, also called Afrin, on Sunday, raising their flags in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime continues to impose restrictions and put economic pressure on several areas in the Damascus countryside.  The Ministry of Finance has issued a decree imposing taxes on all residents of the city of al-Tal under the threat of...

Fuel for emergency generators that keep Gaza’s hospitals and sanitation services operating will run out within 10 days, the United Nations said Tuesday in an appeal for immediate donor support. The shortage stems from a dispute between Gaza’s dominant Hamas and the West...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abbas al-Faouri, a Syrian refugee in Jordan, has invented a laser microscope that can be used to study microbes and bacteria in their natural environment and use them in the fields of medicine and laboratory analysis. The laser microscope can also be used in universities and...