(Eqtsad)- The intense battles in Deraa’s western countryside and the conflicted sides exchanges using heavy artillery has led to the incineration of large tracts of agricultural land planted with wheat, an important strategic crop that the population in the western area depend on as one of...
(Eqtsad)- With the start of the harvest season each year, the regime forces and sectarian militias that aid it purposefully ignite fires whether by plane or by shelling fields from the checkpoints surrounding the cities and towns in Homs’ besieged northern countryside. Eqtsad’s...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Syrian young men, especially those lived in border towns with Lebanon, used to work in Lebanon before the revolution, due to lack of employment opportunity even for university graduated, as most of them worked in smuggling goods from Lebanon and sell in...
(Zaman al-Wasl)- Regime-run news outlets reflected a widespread anger for regime supporters due to depreciation of the Syrian Pound (SP) value in front of the American Dollar. The depreciation led to a rocket increase in prices. State employees’ and workers’ salaries does not suffice for...