Syria's once-promising economy has been set back more than 30 years by its brutal civil war, economists say, and it may never recover. Squeezed by sanctions and the fallout of the more than three-year-old conflict, the government faces dwindling revenues and is increasingly...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels have killed senior commander of Syrian regime armed forces on Tuesday near al-Shaer gas field east Homs province, pro-regime media feeds reported. Brigadier Muhsen Said Hussein, top officer in military Intelligence,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Violent clashes on Tuesday took place between Syrian regime forces and the Islamic battalions in Quneitra province amid reports of slow advances by the rebels, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed DAMASCUS (Zaman Al Wasl)- The severe siege on Eastern Ghouta in Damascus has reached to unbearable levels, and disturbance on many level. As a reaction, people sometimes demonstrated against monopoly, while...