Iran had a grand plan for Syria – taken right from the playbook of a country it considers its arch-enemy. Just as the United States solidified its global dominance by investing billions in rebuilding Europe after the Second World War, Iran would do the same in the Middle East by...

Syria signed a 30-year contract with French shipping giant CMA CGM to develop and run the port of Latakia, the port’s director and a company official said on Thursday. Joseph Dakak, CMA CGM’s regional director, said he was “pleased today to announce the signing of an investment and...

In December 2019, US President Donald Trump signed the long-awaited Caesar Act to tighten the noose on the regime of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The sanctions were set to expire in December 2024, but Congress renewed them in a text agreed upon just hours before the fall of the Assad...

The overthrow of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was a great thing for Mohammed al-Badawi. His sales doubled, and he could now sell his imported drinks at low prices from Turkey throughout Syria, not just in Idlib, the former opposition stronghold to which he had previously imported his...