Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced on Sunday that they would settle Syria’s debt to the World Bank totaling roughly $15 million, according to a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency. Both Gulf states have played a key role in the diplomatic outreach to Syria’s new rulers since the...

A visiting UN official said on Saturday that Syria's authorities should begin the process of economic recovery, without waiting for Western sanctions imposed under Bashar al-Assad's rule to be lifted. The new government has been pushing for Assad-era sanctions to be removed to revive the...

Syrian ministers and the country’s central bank chief are to take part in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s spring meetings in Washington next week, two sources told AFP on Monday. Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, Finance Minister Mohammed Barnieh and central bank...

Syria's interim president Ahmed Al-Sharaa held talks with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed on Sunday in his first official trip to the UAE since taking office, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA. Al-Sharaa was received at the airport by Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin...