Dollar Breaks Record in the Black Market
Syria News (Independent website)
June 12, 2013
Its official rate stayed at 99.91
Its official rate stayed at 99.91
Sources said Makhlouf, who is a cousin of Bashar Assad, has sent a message to the Cyprian government via his legal representation
Local residents and activists setting up a grid in the Aleppo river to catch bodies floating down the river, Human Rights Watch has said in a statement
Syria’s PM says the government is mobilizing all national resources for the reconstruction and development process once the crisis ends
The Commander-in-Chief of the SFA says there are positive signs of the seriousness about lifting the European Union arms embargo by the end of the month
Syria’s Health Minister urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to assist in lifting economic sanctions against Syria
In the education sector, a campaign was launched called ‘I will not leave my school’. It was planned by the different youth bodies to reopen schools, including a team called ‘The Eye of the City’.
The government had initially agreed to the activists’ release, minister of Justice said, and, after a review of their cases was complete, he told the delegation the activists will be released on 20 May. However, he said, some would face trial before release.
The US Dollar has continued to climb in black market trading to reach levels not seen since the beginning of the popular uprising two years ago.
The English transcript of the speech of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad before the newly-sworn Government on April 16.
The English transcript of the speech of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad before the newly-sworn Government on April 16.
The government on Tuesday responded to the European Union decision to ease the oil embargo on Syria with the aim of helping rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The easing of the oil embargo by the EU is aimed at helping rebels fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime.
There were over 6,000 documented deaths in Syria last month, making it the bloodiest month in its 2 year-old uprising, according to figures released by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Adib Mayaleh holds Syrian citizens accountable as national currency deteriorates
Ala Jaleema leans against the wall, clutching her daughter in front of her. For the second time in six months she and her seven children are homeless: first the Syrian regime flattened their home with mortar shells, and then soldiers from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) evicted them from the scrap metal warehouse they’d been sheltering in.
Sexual- and gender-based violence has rightly gained attention as a notorious dimension of the conflict in Syria. Documenting these crimes is important, but unfortunately they are especially difficult to prosecute.
What’s strange is, despite the fact that I’m a secular person who doesn’t like Islamists, they had a very positive impact on me.
Aref Dalilah, a Syrian economist, has said that Syria’s losses in the past 22 months reached $200 billion and that rebuilding the country would take 25 years.
It is with deep grief and sorrow; the Coalition received the news of another explosion that killed dozens of people in the city of Salamiyah. This is another heinous crime that has the fingerprints of the Syrian regime, which continues to try to create a rift between the people of one homeland.
