Reporting by Abdulhafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Yusef Abed al-Moulayet, who achieved first place in the Syrian general baccalaureate exams in its scientific branch in Lebanon with a score of 229 from a total of 240, always remembers the wise phrase, “learning is light and ignorance is...

A new ceasefire in Syria brought a full day with no combat deaths in the war between President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents, a monitoring body said on Tuesday, and efforts to deliver aid to besieged areas got cautiously underway. Twenty-four hours after the truce took effect, the United...

The median U.S. household income rose last year, its first significant annual increase since 2007, and helped push down the number of people living in poverty to 43.1 million, federal government data released on Tuesday showed. About 29 million people did not have health insurance in 2015,...

The UN has sent 20 humanitarian aid trucks to Syria from Turkey after the U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire came into effect across the country, according to security sources. Security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said 20 aid trucks...