Russia paid a heavy financial price on Monday for its military intervention in neighboring Ukraine, with stocks , bonds and the ruble plunging as President Vladimir Putin's forces tightened their grip on the Russian-speaking Crimea region. The Moscow stock...

Friends of mine who just came from Damascus described how the city transformed into a ghost city, and how depressing it is to walk in its up-scaled residential areas such as Abu Romana , Al Malki, which have become dark and empty of its people . Even though these areas...

Documents obtained by Zaman Alwasl showed that Bashar al-Assad’s Authorities had agreed to arm Syrian Business men, especially in the embattled city of Aleppo over security precautions. Activists said that most merchants of Syria's commercial capital...