Al-Haddadiya (Syria) (AFP) – At his farm in Syria's northeast, Abdullah al-Mohammed adjusts a large solar panel, one of hundreds that have cropped up over the years as farmers seek to stave off electricity shortages in the war-ravaged region. Solar energy has offered a lifeline for the...

Viral hepatitis is sweeping the Al-Shajara district in the Yarmouk Basin area in the southern Daraa province It began appearing about a month ago, due to contamination of drinking water, threatening the lives of more than 30,000 civilians there. Not a house in the region was free of...

Amr Salem, former Minister of Internal Trade, criticized Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous’s speech before the People’s Assembly, in which he said that “the steps taken by the government with regard to reducing the budget deficit by reducing the value of subsidies on oil derivatives...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interim central bank governor called on the country’s ruling class Friday to quickly implement economic and financial reforms warning that the central bank won't offer loans to the state and does not plan on printing money to cover the huge budget deficit to avoid...