( Eqtsad )- Abu Hassan, a janitor in the city of Douma northeast of the capital, was unable to escape the job opportunity he had found in the local council's municipal services office a year ago.  “Due to the blockade enforced by regime on Douma and the difficult economic...

A former chief of staff to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to provide testimony on behalf of the state in two graft cases in which the Israeli leader has been questioned as a suspect, court papers showed on Friday. The decision by Ari Harow to turn state's witness as part of a...

A Palestinian-Syrian software pioneer has been executed in prison after being arrested five years ago by Syrian authorities in Damascus, his widow and colleagues said Wednesday, in what Amnesty International said was a “grim reminder of Syrian prison horrors.”  Noura Ghazi Safadi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime arrested several women on their way back from Idlib to their town in Madaya, in the countryside of Damascus, local activists reported. Media activist Abdul Wahab Ahmad said that elements from the Fourth Division, an elite force led by Maher al-Assad,...