Last month’s municipal elections in Lebanon showed the continuing political and popular weight of the Lebanese factions ...

Syria’s harvest has shrunk as a result of climate change-related drought, further complicating the country’s economic ...

On May 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued General License No. 25 under the ...

Following an announcement by President Donald Trump on May 13, 2025, that he would order the cessation of US sanctions against Syria, the ...

U.S. sanctions relief is a huge win for the new Syrian government and has second-order effects since other Western countries ...

Lifting sanctions lays the groundwork for a new era in Syria, but it is a slow, multiphase process shaped by legal, political, and institutional constraints ...

An essay by Patrick O’Donoghue on the situation in St. Cloud, Minnesota (USA) following a knife attack by an African ...

Erdogan has pledged that Syrian Airlines will start flying again to Turkey on a regular basis, but did not clarify when.

Reopening the stock market is part of Syria’s plans to rebuild the country and its economy after 14 years of civil war. The ...

US$11 billion. Lebanon’s reconstruction will require not only a huge amount of money, but also a real political commitment ...

Emirates is set to reintroduce flights to Damascus from 16 July 2025. Operations were suspended to the Syrian capital in 2012 ...

This comes a month after they announced their commitment to settle Syria’s outstanding arrears of $15m (around QAR 55m) to ...