The Syrian minister of petroleum has said that western sanctions were behind the shortages of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in the market, which have now been ongoing for more than two months.

Qatar National Bank Syria has announced the resignation of its CEO, the third such executive to resign from Syria’s top private banks in the past six months.

One of Syria’s two Iranian-owned car assembly plants has announced that it was resuming its operations.

As expected, the contract for the development of the Yalbagha real estate compound in central Damascus has been awarded to Wassim Qattan, 45 years after works on the project started.