Syria's future will be decided only after "getting rid of extremists" and achieving political reconciliation, the country's President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Monday. As the war that has ravaged his country approaches its seventh year, Assad told reporters it was "still...

The Turkish cabinet was on Monday expected to consider imposing sanctions on the Netherlands in a deepening row with its NATO ally over a ban on its ministers speaking at political events in Rotterdam, and one minister said punitive measures were likely. President Tayyip Erdogan, who is...

Iraqi forces said Monday they had taken more territory from ISIS as they press an offensive that has seen them recapture a third of west Mosul and trap extremists inside. A renewed push launched on March 5 has forced ISIS out of several neighborhoods and key sites, including the main local...

(Eqtsad)- Heavy rainfall over Syria recently has saved the rain-fed agriculture season in te country from drought, however, the season this year is still weak and not as productive as former years according to farmers of Homs and Hama. Many farmers talked to Eqtsad explaining that recent...