The city of Kilis, in southern Turkey, has witnessed a significant decline in residential rental prices due to the return of increasing numbers of Syrian refugees to their country. This has led to a sharp decline in demand for apartments and has had a direct impact on the city's real estate...

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East.  Despite the current government’s hostility to the trade, the country...

The Syrian government's promise to increase salaries has been fulfilled, albeit not by the percentage previously announced shortly after assuming power, when it announced it would increase public sector employees' salaries by 400%. With the delay in implementing this promise, and its...

US President Donald Trump said he had “obliterated” Iran’s main nuclear sites in strikes overnight, in a major new escalation of conflict in the Middle East as Tehran vowed to reserve all options to defend itself. In Israel, which triggered the crisis by attacking Iran’s nuclear and...