Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein (Eqtsad)- Prices of food has risen in the town of Markada in the southern countryside of Hasaka, the last stronghold of the Islamic State, due to the rise in the exchange rate of the US dollar from SYP 515 to SYP 525, added to fear among people of lack of food...

Libyan forces engaged in renewed clashes with Islamic State militants in Sirte on Thursday, a day after capturing a convention complex that had been a symbol of the militant group's authority in the city. Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government seized the Ouagadougou convention...

An upsurge of intense fighting around Aleppo has killed scores of Syrians in the past weeks, displaced thousands and cut water and power to up to two million people on both sides of the front line, worsening the already dire conditions faced by hundreds of thousands in the city. In...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Medical sources in the Maternity hospital in al-Waer neighbourhood in Homs revealed that the hospital risks a complete halt for its services due to constant electricity outage for the seventh day and running out of fuel needed to run the electricity generators. Sources...