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With growing talk of monetary policy shifts in Syria, the country’s central bank governor, Abdelkader Husrieh, recently announced that Syria is moving towards adopting a managed float system for its local currency, the Syrian pound. This comes after efforts to...

Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa has opened a direct channel of communication with Israel, providing what he described as a genuine opportunity for peace. Speaking alongside U.S. President Donald Trump...

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed on December 8, 2024, many Syrians thought it marked the end of one of the darkest chapters in their history. Families in makeshift camps across Syria’s northwest began to dream again of going home to...

Beirut, Lebanon - The Israeli army announced on Monday that it had dismantled what it described as an Iranian Quds Force cell operating in the countryside of Daraa province, southwest Syria. Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a statement...

Quneitra, southwestern Syria - Israeli forces carried out early-morning incursions into rural Quneitra in southwestern Syria on Monday, detaining six people during raids on multiple villages, our correspondent reported. The correspondent said an Israeli military unit with armored vehicles raided...

Ankara, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Monday with a delegation from the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. The delegation included Deputy Speaker of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly and Van...

Last Saturday, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy made a landmark visit to Damascus, where he met Syrian President Ahmad Al-Shara and Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani. Lammy announced the full restoration of diplomatic relations between the UK and Syria after a...

Latakia, western Syria - The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Adam Abdelmoula, announced on Sunday that UN field teams have begun initial assessments of the devastating wildfires sweeping through forested areas in northern Latakia province. Abdelmoula said, in a...

As the Syrian government under President Ahmad Al-Shara attempts to rebuild the state after more than a decade of brutal war that began in 2011, the question of creating a shared national identity has emerged as one of the country’s...

Raqqa, northeastern Syria - The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Sunday that they have dismantled an ISIS cell operating in the city of Raqqa, northern Syria; a former stronghold of the extremist group. In a statement published on its...