Inside the machine-crammed Mouhtarides factory near the Greek-Turkish border, Ioanna Pistola deftly spins a silk thread in a loom, ignoring the deafening noise around her. “I’ve been working in this hall for 20 years,” the middle-aged weaver shouts above the din. The dormant,...

The prime minister of China said Tuesday there are no winners in a trade war with the U.S. "There is no winner in the trade war," Li Keqiang said at the 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Singapore where he addressed the trade war, the South China Sea dispute...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, the former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells how a Moroccan belly dancer was highly welcomed in the prison. She was arrested in the town of Sayyidah Zaynab, southern Damascus, over links with Shiite militants who were entertaining themselves during...

Near the recently reopened border with Jordan, former Syrian rebel fighter Bahaa al-Masri sells date-filled pastries and sesame biscuits to Jordanians flocking across the frontier to snap up bargains. Syrian regime forces retook control of the Nassib border crossing from rebels in July,...