Before the bloodshed of the civil war in Syria, the country’s economy was diverse. The most important sectors included agriculture (22 percent of the economy), industry and excavation (25 percent), retail (23 percent), and tourism (12 percent), according to 2009 figures quoted by the Syrian...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- “How many years have you been sentenced? Summing up his worries: Five years. With an honest smile: your imprisonment sentence is equal to the number of years that I spent in the prison toilet only.” Such a conversation that was never erased from the mind of D.S, a...

Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission on Saturday called on participants in last year’s Berlin Conference to fulfill their obligations over the Libyan crisis, including the withdrawal of foreign mercenaries from the country. In a statement, the commission called for the “immediate...