It’s no secret that Lebanon and Syria are intertwined politically, economically, and socially in ways that have become all the more evident since the war started raging in Syria more than two years ago. A new study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, or...

   March for Syrian gays in Istiklal Street, the center of Istanbul, have raised the flags of the revolution and the Regime.  The controversial rally was organized by 'Mawaleh"- The salty nuts- the first Syrian magazine for homosexuals, Zaman Alwasl has...

Syria 's regime  is trying to tap frozen funds in foreign bank accounts to step up purchases of food  stocks  including wheat, as civil war and a deepening humanitarian crisis push President Bashar al-Assad to seek new ways to feed his people, Reuters reported ....

The United States said on Friday it would work with other nations to resolve Egypt's crisis peacefully, injecting new energy into a push to end a bloody standoff since the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A day after saying the army had restored democracy by removing Mursi,...