The Syrian lira crashed to a new low on Monday, after a new video was released by business tycoon Rami Makhlouf over the weekend, in which he appeared to again challenge Bashar Al-Assad's regime. Makhlouf posted a third video on his Facebook account on Sunday, in which he continued his...

Sixteen people in Lebanon, mostly Syrians, have been arrested for money transfers and "illegal" currency exchange operations, the army said on Saturday, amid a government crackdown on exchange rate manipulation.  The army said in a statement that it had arrested 13 Syrians and three...

At least two civilians were killed in seven fire outbreaks in the last three weeks in the tent camps at the Turkey-Syria border zone, according to a local official on Sunday. Mohammad Hallaj, the director of Syria's Response Coordination Group, told Anadolu Agency that the gas cylinders...

(Zaman Al Wals)- The value of the Syrian pound (Lira) has been in hysterical dwindling on Sunday following new defiant statements by Bashar al-Assad's cousin and Telecom tycoon  Rami Makhlouf  who has refused to step down and warned of imminent collapse for the ailing economy....