Parliament Approves 2017 State Budget Bill
Al-Thawra (pro-government newspaper)
December 1, 2016
Lawmakers sign draft law on new state budget for the upcoming fiscal year
Lawmakers sign draft law on new state budget for the upcoming fiscal year
Syrian army helps transport thousands of locals, mostly women and children, from the eastern neighborhoods to temporary housing centers
Scores of families leave the besieged neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo city under Syrian army supervision
During its time in control of Deir-ez-Zor, ISIS has tried to manage internet cafes by controlling their work and recording users’ details, but users like traders and exchangers have remained largely outside the control of the group’s monitoring bodies
Around 19,000 infants are estimated to require baby milk in Eastern Ghouta, while the monthly cost of milk often reaches up to 39,000 Syrian pounds ($180), which is more than half of most residents’ income.
Human rights monitor says at least 16 people killed in US-led coalition air strike near ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria
New report claims Syria witnessed a loss equal to 212 percent of gross domestic product for the year 2015 alone
Reports claim that a number of the group’s leaders have fled Mosul toward Syrian territory due to the military operation to retake the Iraqi city
“Sometimes I bring my medicine from Lebanon because the Syrian medicine is not effective according to my doctor, as the private medical factories put only small amounts of the effective component in drugs”
“I try as much as I can to organize our money, so that we often go without a meal to reduce our daily spending. My children also share clothes, which they trade between them”
Experts expect this year’s olive harvest to witness a shortfall by up to 900,000 tons, over half of last year’s entire crop
Assad government announces it intends to end its subsidies of foodstuffs, including bread, in favor of monthly stipends for families in need
Assad supporters voice discontent as regime institutions prioritize delivery of humanitarian aid to families of fallen soldiers over paramilitaries
Pharmacist says chemists are exploiting the lack of medicine in the capital to raise prices, sometimes increasing costs by twice the actual price
Authorities report three people killed, 11 others injured due to suicide bombings targeting Hama city
Aleppo governor and UNICEF discuss boosting cooperation in relief sector
Minister in the Syrian temporary government and others killed in explosion targeting a meeting of around 50 people in the southern Syrian city
23 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid enter the city in the Damascus countryside
Sharia court has informed people about the risk of marrying their daughters to Egyptians and the families of young men of marrying Egyptian women
Local sources claim militants preventing hundred of families from leaving as dozens flee rebel-held eastern Aleppo
