A senior United Nations team tasked with investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war began a mission to Damascus Wednesday, trying to hammer out with Syrian officials the terms for their investigation. It is the first such trip by international experts, and the...

Hollande said, the only representative of Syrian people for us is the coalition President of France Francois Hollande received Wednesday Ahmad Jarba, the new head of Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Anadolu agency reported. ...

Damascus countryside has been suffering from a severe siege for more than two months, resulted in difficulties to supply food, and it reached to an extent to consider getting bread into besieged areas a crime as weapons and arms trade, and do not forget the difficulty in providing medicines....

  An exchange agent in Damascus told “Eqtsad” that amounts of American dollars had been trading in the black market with an Iranian seal. The dollars stamped with phrase “Ya Zahra’a”, one of sacred Shiite's slogans that glorify al-Zahra’a, the daughter of...