Syria’s Central Bank decision to expand the list of financing imports in dollar according to the market trading rate is reflected in the real value of the Syrian pound and will lead into the trap of trade-offs between: providing goods at higher prices, in exchange for a new collapse of the...

  Bashar Assad was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, his office said, marking his first visit to an Arab country since Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011. In a statement posted on its social media pages, the office says that Assad met with Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,...

Three Iranians of the Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in an ambush by the Islamic State militants in the Badia desert in central Syria, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. The attack targeted a military point for IRGC in the Khirbat Tiyas badia, about 5 km from the...

Two sites have been located, believed to hold thousands of bodies of Syrians killed in detention centers administered by Bashar al-Assad’s government during the civil war. BERLIN — By day, the workers used heavy machinery to dig pits and trenches. After dark, the corpses arrived,...