Tehran agrees to supply Damascus with oil in exchange for the right to invest in country devastated by conflict. Iran has agreed to supply Damascus with $3.6bn in oil in exchange for the right to invest in the country, Syria's state news agency SANA has said. "An agreement was signed...

The head of Syria’s opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country’s situation was “desperate” and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have...

Damascus countryside has been suffering from a severe siege for more than two months, resulted in difficulties to supply food, and it reached to an extent to consider getting bread into besieged areas a crime as weapons and arms trade, and do not forget the difficulty in providing medicines....

  An exchange agent in Damascus told “Eqtsad” that amounts of American dollars had been trading in the black market with an Iranian seal. The dollars stamped with phrase “Ya Zahra’a”, one of sacred Shiite's slogans that glorify al-Zahra’a, the daughter of...