The Lebanese Red Cross rescued more than 500 people from Akkar’s Semmaqieh refugee settlement Monday after their tents filled with floodwater as storm Norma battered Lebanon with fierce winds, heavy snow and rainfall. Red Cross vehicles transferred the 100 Syrian families to other settlements...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy losses inflicted on the Russian air force in 2018, as more than 40 military personnel killed in air crash accidents in Syria.  Russia, which ranks as the second air force in the world after the U.S., has lost five warplanes in Syria in 2018,...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began her term as the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress with a bang this week by proposing to tax the ultra-rich at 60 or 70 percent. The daughter of working-class parents, the 29-year-old New Yorker was following up on her campaign promise....

   (Eqtsad)- Tobacco cultivation has re-emerged in Daraa province as war ends in the southern province after bloody years in the cradle of the Syrian revolution. Fathi al-Muhammad, agricultural engineer who was dismissed from his governmental job, said that the...