A visit visa can be converted into a permanent residency permit for a close family member of an expatriate worker under special conditions, a senior Passport Department official said during a phone-in service with Arab News readers on Wednesday....
Translation by Dani Ahmed In a recent procedure by regime’s ministry of justice, a new formed committee has deliberated a proposal called the (temporary return) that suggests “to rent empty houses that their owners have left in the current...
(By The Nation -Lauren Wolfe)- The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back out. I was sitting in a sweaty, brightly painted room in southern Turkey. The man behind the desk was a...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's ambassador to Lebanon said Monday the upcoming Syrian presidential election will be the resounding answer to all those who doubt that his government will prevail in its current conflict. Sitting in his office at the hilltop Syrian Embassy just outside the...
