A high-speed railway linking northern Saudi Arabia to Syria through Jordan could help reduce dependency on the Hormuz Strait, Al-Thawra argues.
Shibani announced the government began a comprehensive national damage assessment to identify the essential requirements for the country’s reconstruction.
Syria is entering a pivotal stage of financial and economic reform with the backing of the World Bank, al-Thawra writes.
Society places its heaviest weight upon women, measuring honor through their conduct, while men are afforded a wide margin for transgression without their very existence being imperiled, Uday Al-Abdallah writes in Daraj.
In Damascus, life maintains a normal rhythm, with the exception of long queues at gas stations, al-Modon writes.
Minister of Information Hamza al-Mustafa outlined new plans to reinvigorate local media and ensure that diverse communities are represented within the national media narrative, Syria TV writes.
The agreement — formalized through a Letter of Agreement under the STAF project — comes as Syria confronts a deeply damaged economy, a sharply contracting GDP, and widespread institutional breakdown after more than a decade of conflict.
Despite rising demand — particularly as some displaced families return and the rental crisis worsens — meaningful solutions remain out of reach
The question dominating economic circles in the capital is whether the region is witnessing a brief flare-up or the start of a prolonged cycle of retaliation, al-Modon writes.
This doesn’t means Syria’s economic crisis is over, Ultra Syria writes
Syria faces dozens of urgent priorities. Revisiting agrarian reform is not one of them, Samir Seifan writes.
Field surveys and citizen testimonies indicate that cylinders are being sold at significantly inflated prices across several areas.
Maznah Dreid, a member of the Syrian Political Feminist Movement, told the UN Security Council in New York on Friday that the movement was forced to relocate its seventh general conference to Beirut after failing to obtain official approval in Damascus.
Acwa, recognized globally as a leader in renewable energy and the world’s largest private water desalination firm, reaffirmed that its operations focus on green hydrogen, clean power, desalinated water, and related infrastructure.
The battered Iranian-made taxis that rattle through the streets remain a visible relic of the so-called era of resistance, Youssef Bezzi writes in Al-Modon.
Syrian women focus their efforts on dismantling discriminatory structures, foremost among them the Personal Status Law—one of the most entrenched instruments of inequality, Rosa Hassan writes for Daraj.
Despite repeated government statements emphasizing limited resources and the difficulty of the current phase, certain practices—such as high-end car convoys and conspicuous security escorts—tell a different story, Shaam writes.
The new banknotes remain scarce in markets and daily transactions, leaving Syrians to navigate a disorderly transition that contrasts sharply with the orderly reform they were promised, Ultra Syria writes.
Collapsing Syria into Damascus, and then collapsing Damascus into its relatively affluent neighborhoods, is a serious distortion, Omar Kaddour writes in al-Modon.
Three years after the devastating earthquake of February 6, 2023, the grave of seven-year-old Islam al-Rifai stands as a quiet rebuke, Daraj writes.