(Eqtsad)- Agricultural Engineers in Syria expect this year’s harvest of olive would be the worst, as it could not exceed 700 thousand tons compared to 1.6 million tons last year.  Engineers attributed that to the insect “olive fly”, beside thirst on July and August and negligence...

(The Daily Star)- A group of 105 British members of parliament (MPs) have asked President Barack Obama to withdraw a warrant for the extradition of an autistic Briton who is accused of hacking high-security U.S. state computers. Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in a regime and Russian airstrike Monday on the northwestern Idlib province, according to Civil Defense workers. 6 people have been killed while some 21 more people remain under the debris of collapsed buildings following the...

A small passenger aircraft crashed on takeoff at Malta's international airport on Monday, killing all five people onboard, officials said. In a statement, the airport said the aircraft, a Fairchild Metroliner turboprop, was involved in an accident "upon takeoff." "We can confirm that the...

The road to U.S. LPGA Tour riches is one well traveled by South Korean golfers but the domestic KLPGA circuit is looking to stem the annual exodus by boosting prize money and world ranking points on its increasingly lucrative schedule. A host of major winners, not to mention Park In-bee's...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday repelled a Daesh attack near Sinjar town in northern Iraq, according to a local commander.  Daesh militants mounted a surprise attack at dawn on Peshmerga forces stationed west of Sinjar using car-bombs, Lukman Ibrahim, a Peshmerga commander in Sinjar,...

(The Daily Star)- Turkey's military struck dozens of ISIS and Kurdish YPG militia targets in Syria over the last 24 hours, depriving both groups of the ability to move around, the army said Monday, as its operation there entered a third month. Backed by Turkish tanks, special forces and...

(The Daily Star)- Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation center, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out. The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centers to...

Iraq's joint operations command Monday denied Turkey was participating in military operations to retake the northern city of Mosul from ISIS. "The spokesman of the Joint Operations Command denies Turkish participation of any kind in operations for the liberation of Nineveh," a statement...

A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on a California highway through the night, and the work had gone on for hours without problems. Then a tour bus returning to Los Angeles from a casino trip slammed into the back of a semi-truck. Passengers who were asleep on the bus woke up to loud...

Migrants carrying suitcases and bundles of possessions began leaving the Calais "Jungle" on Monday ahead of the demolition of the camp that has served as a launchpad for attempts to sneak into Britain. A group of Sudanese and Eritrean migrants, mostly men, queued in the early morning...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Syrian activists, military, civil and political figures have launched “Syrian Salvation Project”, a project to unite the revolutionary work, amid the disappointment rebels have from the international community and the weak representation of the revolution outside...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ali Ramadan, a Syrian artist who works on colouring old black and white pictures by using computer and particular software, to turn them into live images as if they were taken today. Ramadan, the technician in Mechanics who lives in Saudi Arabia told...

(The Daily Star)- Here are the big talking points for markets as a new week beckons. Q: Are we set for another strong dollar scare? A: Three consecutive weekly losses have pulled the euro down to its lowest level since March, below $1.09. That leaves the dollar index just shy of 100, a...

Davie Selke refused to celebrate despite playing a key role as Leipzig set a Bundesliga record to go second on Sunday after beating Werder Bremen 3-1. Former Bremen striker Selke set one goal up and then sealed the win as Leipzig, the first side to remain unbeaten in its first eight...

Two PKK terrorists were killed in Turkey’s eastern province of Tunceli on Sunday, local officials said. In a statement, the governor’s office said they were killed in airstrikes by F-16 jets and Cobra attack helicopters after being spotted in Ovacik district by aerial drones. “Two male...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A father and his daughter have been killed on Sunday in regime vacuum missiles attack on northern Idlib province while two displaced camps were hit by regime artillery, leaving dozens wounded, media center said. The vacuum missile targeted the town of Maaert al-Numan,...

(The Daily Star)-  At least one person died and two others were injured in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a car exploded near a camp for displaced people, police said. "We believe it was a suicide car bomb. Its driver detonated the bomb in his car," police officer Ibrahim...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish bulldozers resume Sunday dredging agricultural fields of Syrian farmers at the village of Aqrabat near Bab al-Hawa crossing point, although farmers are meeting the Wali of Hatay State Monday, to provide him with the real estate map to show the ownership of lands those...

(Eqtsad)- “Al-Sham Voluntary Team”, a relief team aims to spread the culture of Charity and volunteering work, besides supporting refugees, especially females, who are presented as “producers women, not helpless refugees live under poverty and need. The idea of the team started 2011...