Currency falls following the end to transfers from family members abroad during Eid holidays, Iqtissad writes
Lawmaker calls on government to take a ‘realistic look’ at citizens’ living conditions as inflation forces pressure on communities, loyalist website reports
Harvesting crops on Idleb’s lush farmland offers lucrative financial incentives for those struggling to make ends meet, agricultural workers tell Iqtissad
Despite efforts by security agencies to halt the trend of tit-for-tat kidnappings in Daraa and Suweida, the lucrativeness of the trade is one major reason for its continuation among gangs, Tamaddon writes
Iqtissad reviews the unaffordable costs of living in regime-held districts for a five-person family on an average wage
Syrian government is using the influx of foreign transfers to justify delaying support for citizens’ purchasing power, economics expert tells loyalist newspaper
Alsouria Net interviews journalists and activists on the activities and abuses of the powerful paramilitary group active in the coastal Lattakia region, which boasts close family ties to the Syrian president
Opposition outlet claims loyalist paramilitary groups are routinely exploiting Syrians’ needs for a stable income by recruiting children into their ranks for up to $200 a month, with many of them being sent to battlefronts without proper training
Syrian president amends civil status law deeming marriages valid if they take place in a foreign country, as long as citizens register the union at their local embassy or consulate, loyalist newspaper Al-Baath reports
Enab Baladi reveals the widespread disorder faced by residents of Suweida and Daraa who risk tit-for-tat kidnappings by armed gangs along the Houran plains
“We had to use this as an alternative to fuel because the population in the areas south of the capital do not have the money to buy wood (for burning)”
President celebrates international day of disabled with Syrians paralyzed by the war, as U.N. office for humanitarian affairs releases damming report on the scale of permanent injuries inflicted during the nearly six-year conflict
Syrian president issues law setting the 2017 state budget at 2.6 trillion Syrian pounds
Around 150,000 residents in regime-held districts of Deir-ez-Zor are living in prison-like conditions as they face siege by the Islamic State group, while those who are able to flee from the regime’s hell remain uncertain they will escape execution at the hands of ISIS members
Lawmakers sign draft law on new state budget for the upcoming fiscal year
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.
New report claims Syria witnessed a loss equal to 212 percent of gross domestic product for the year 2015 alone
“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”
