(Eqtsad)- Shiite influence has increased in Dommar, western district of Damascus, where many Shiite families have been brought to the neighbourhood, added to buying properties, houses, shops and lands of the neighbourhood to Shiite at high prices.  Ows al-Omawi, manger of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The military police forces search and arrest young men from streets of Latakia to send them for mandatory conscription and military reserve service. Latakia News, pro-regime Facebook page, mentioned that patrols of the military police forces had arrested 17 young men by early...

( The Guardian )- Near Aleppo’s ancient citadel, the scent of rose and jasmine rises from the rubble of a half-destroyed shop covered in bullet holes. Months ago it was a battleground, but for years before that it was a perfumery, and war has not changed its smell. For centuries Aleppo’s...

( The Guardian )- The Iranian founder of a popular Farsi-language satellite television network has been shot dead in Istanbul alongside a Kuwaiti business partner, according to Turkish media, months after reportedly being convicted of spreading “propaganda” against the Islamic Republic....