Syria’s wheat and barley crops this year improved helped by favorable rainfall and better overall security but food security remains a challenge, a joint report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) said on Thursday. Wheat...

The value of the Syrian pound against the dollar has fallen sharply to its lowest rate in history, an economic publication said Tuesday. On the black market on Tuesday, the pound was trading at 650 against the dollar (715 to the euro). It's "the lowest in history", Jihad...

A delegation of at least 40 businessmen from the United Arab Emirates attended a state-backed trade fair in Syria’s capital, defying U.S. warnings against doing business with the government and associates of President Bashar al-Assad. The UAE, one of Washington’s main regional allies,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime activists and relatives of the Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had held his cousin in custody over 'money discords'. This disagreement led to direct orders to take Makhlouf’s companies and investments into the custody...