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Black Friday kicks off scramble in a shorter shopping season

Black Friday shoppers fought for parking spots and traveled cross-state to their favorite malls, kicking off a shortened shopping season that intensified the mad scramble between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The shopping season is the shortest since 2013 because Thanksgiving fell on the...

Syrian budget suffers $1 billion drop

Thirty days has passed between the date of the submission of the regime’s budget to the People's Assembly and its final approval on Tuesday. However, as the Syrian Pound plummeted to an all-time low, the budget suffered around a $1 billion drop. On October 27, the People's Assembly was...

With US aid, Kurdish forces build power plant near Hasaka city

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In an effort to improve oil and gas production in Kurdish-held areas, the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces is building a new power plant south of the Jbeissa oil and gas field in northeastern Hasaka province. A source provided Zaman al-Wasl with aerial photographs of the...

Kurds could start oil deliveries to Baghdad in 2020

The semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq could start delivering 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil to the Baghdad federal government by early 2020, Iraq's oil minister said. The oil would be delivered to state oil marketer SOMO which would export it via pipeline through the...