Syria will be fully reconnected to the SWIFT international payment system “in a matter of weeks” after more than a decade of sanctions, central bank governor Abdelkader Husrieh told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday.
The city of Homs witnessed an armed attack on the historic Umm al-Zannar Church in the al-Hamidiyah neighborhood. An unknown masked assailant opened fire at the church's facade at dawn on Sunday, striking the Holy Cross, which was mounted on its front. No casualties were reported. A...
Zaman al-Wasl was able to uncover the fate of Shadi Ghazi al-Muhammad, whose photo appeared among the photos of detainees from the National Defense Forces militia that the newspaper previously published. Shadi, born in 1998, was arrested in 2013 by members of the National Defense Forces,...
The Ministry of Social Affairs has formed an investigative committee to follow up on the case of detained children. This is a continuation of the work of the previous committee formed by former Minister Fadi Qassem, said Moatasem Al-Salumi, director of the Lahn Al-Hayat Orphanage. The...
