At the busy Marjah Square in central Damascus, Rateb Farah, 25, peddles Syrian pounds in stacks on a cardboard box. Sitting ...

The announcement comes after a week of border clashes between Syrian authorities and Lebanese smuggling gangs in the area.

What’s notable about Syria is that subsequent to al-Assad’s fall, foreign-currency exchanges “have sprung up seemingly everywhere.” Illegal under al-Assad such that currency trading was as ...

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

The new leadership of the country said the rebel coalition leader, Ahmed al-Shara, would serve as president during a ...

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Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group has launched attacks on Syrian security forces and is sponsoring cross-border smuggling ...

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Soon after the overthrow of the authoritarian president of Syria, Bashar Assad, a hashtag gathered steam on Egyptian social ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...