SYRIA WAS once a thriving hub of diverse merchant cities. During the Islamic Golden Age (from the eighth to the 13th centuries) the region that is modern-day Syria made notable contributions to ...

"This is a gang of terrorists who took Idlib, then captured Damascus and ... an area seized from Syria in 1967, which is home now to about 50,000 Israelis. But if al-Sharaa continues to present ...

Syria then introduced a plethora of exchange rates for different transactions to safeguard access to scarce hard currency. Following the new rulers’ takeover in December, the central bank ...

Now Malla and others hope the railway can be cleared of its rubble and its dark past and become a central part of Syria's economic revival after war and international isolation. They dream of the ...