Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria’s Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday. It did not immediately say whether Assad had appointed a replacement or give a reason for Karfoul’s dismissal. Syria’s economy has been decimated by...

Syria's Electricity Ministry on Monday has estimated the damage in the electrical system over the past ten years at 3000 Trillion Syrian Pounds, ($2.4 billion). The capacity of the generating sets that were destroyed or causing great damage to them in the various stations is estimated...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's foreign minister warned Tuesday that an attack on its main nuclear enrichment site at Natanz affects ongoing negotiations in Vienna over its tattered atomic deal with world powers. Mohammad Javad Zarif's remarks, alongside visiting Russian...

A 10-day curfew in areas controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in northeast Syria went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to try limit the spread of coronavirus in the region that borders Turkey and Iraq. Northeast Syria witnessed a sharp increase of coronavirus cases in recent weeks...