Reporting by Abdul Salam Bakri; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- In a surprising manner, Syria's oil ministry withdrew the drilling and excavating machinery from al-Mashaheer neighborhood in Latakia city few days go. Conflicting reports say it was by Russian orders or it is due a...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Prices in the first day of Ramadan were shockingly high to Syrian people live in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The price of a medium-sized piece of Marook reached to TYR 6 (almost $2) while one kilogram of date reached to TYR 8 ($2.7) and the tamarind TYR...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The Syrian regime has tried to take advantage of the drop in the exchange rate of the U.S Dollar against the Syrian pound to appear as if the drop was due to effort and procedure taken by it. The regime’s media and TV channels have intensively...

More than 20 European and Asian-owned supertankers are shipping Iranian crude oil, data seen by Reuters shows, allowing Tehran to ramp up exports much faster than market analysts had expected following the lifting of Western sanctions in January. Iran had been struggling as recently as April...