In the 661 st day of Syrian government encirclement of the 13 besieged neighborhoods of Old Homs, a photograph shows three rebel combatants eating mulberry leaves, as food provisions in the town remain scarce, nearly two months after the United Nations World Food Program was last able...

Turkey fired artillery into Syria to retaliate after a cross-border rocket from the war-torn country had slammed into a mosque, Turkish media said Monday amid heightened tensions. The rocket from Syria wounded an elderly Syrian refugee woman in Hatay province on...

In an attempt to understand strategies the Syrian regime uses to keep the dollar exchange rate at SP 150, Zaman alwasl has met Samir Seifan, an economist and researcher, to explain some economic issues affecting Syrian economy and budget. Seifan said that strategy Syrian...

Vladimir Putin is the world leader who is most admired by the head of Britain's anti-European Union party because of the Russian president's "brilliant" handling of the Syria crisis, Nigel Farage said in an interview published on Monday. When asked which leader he had most esteem...