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After over twenty years of negotiations, the Iranian government has announced that work on a multi-million dollar railway connection from the Iranian town of Shalamcheh to Iraq’s Basra is set to begin within two months. The link is part of a more significant railway project to connect Iran’s Imam Khomeini Port with Syria’s Lattakia Port, the country’s main commercial port.
In late December 2021, Russia carried out a ten-day airstrike campaign on Idlib and parts of Rural Aleppo and Hama, killing civilians and widely damaging civilian infrastructure and key sources of livelihoods, including a UNICEF-supported water station, a foodstuff factory, and several poultry and cow farms. The attacks, which are in violation of the 2020 ceasefire agreement between Turkey and Russia, have only contributed to further exacerbating already deteriorating living conditions in the region and may be a sign of increasing tensions between the two countries.
قرر مجلس مدينة حماة هدم نحو 400 عقار مبني على أرض مستملكة بغرض بناء سور لجامعة حماة. وأبلغ المجلس، في كانون الأول 2021، أصحاب المنازل بضرورة إخلائها، من دون توفير أي بديل لهم.
The Financial Law of Administrative Units No. 37 was issued on December 27, 2021, and is meant to regulate the fees and taxes collected by administrative units, as well as the methods for collection. The law also updated some real estate fees, basing them on the “current values” of real estate properties.
Germany and Kuwait have both contributed around EUR 10 million each to the opposition-affiliated Syria Recovery Trust Fund, a multi-donor trust fund that channels grant funding from the international community into development projects inside opposition-held areas of Syria.
رغم تحملها صعوبات المعيشة، خلال السنوات الماضية من الحرب وما بعد النزاع، ما زالت المرأة العلوية تفتقد للاعتراف بحقوقها الأساسية في الملكية والسكن. والملفت، أن ذلك يشمل حتى النساء اللواتي تحمّلن القسط الأوفر من ضرائب الحرب، كأرامل المقاتلين في صفوف قوات النظام.
Despite surviving various hardships over the decade-long war, Syrian Alawite women are still deprived of basic property and housing rights. Among these women are those who have borne a great deal of the war’s challenges, such as the widowed wives of regime soldiers.
ألقت تهديدات محتملة باستخدام القوة بين أطراف عسكرية متصارعة في قرية شرقي السويداء الضوء على هشاشة أوضاع حقوق السكن، الأرض والملكية في المنطقة. كما أشارت الحادثة إلى أن الشرائح الاجتماعية الأكثر ضعفاً هي المعرضة بشكل أكبر لخسارة تلك الحقوق.
Threats of use of force between militants in a village in the eastern part of the Suweida Governorate have shed light on the precariousness of housing, land, and property rights. The incident also demonstrated that the most vulnerable local social groups are at the highest risk of losing those rights.
صدر القانون المالي للوحدات الإدارية رقم 37 في 27 كانون الأول 2021، بغرض تنظيم الرسوم والضرائب التي تستوفيها الوحدات الإدارية وطرق تحصيلها. وعدل القانون بعض الرسوم العقارية وربطها بالقيم الرائجة للعقارات.arabic
The Hama City Council has decided to demolish around 400 properties built on expropriated land in order to construct a wall for Hama University. The council informed the homeowners in December 2021 that they must vacate their properties without providing any housing alternatives.
Gulfsands Petroleum, a London-based oil and gas company that is the operator and joint-owner of Block 26 in Syria, recently received a multi-million dollar financing facility that will allow the company to operate until December 2023.
Electricity companies in the opposition-held parts of the Idlib and Aleppo governorates have recently increased their fees for each kilowatt-hour by 40 to 50 percent in Idlib and 160 to 280 percent in Aleppo, further escalating protests that have proliferated as a result of the region’s worsening economic crisis and the recent collapse of the Turkish lira.
The Syrian Cabinet issued an increase in the monthly compensation of wounded veterans of the National Defence Forces, a pro-government paramilitary force, following a recommendation by the joint committee of the government and the Syria Trust for Development, an NGO run by First Lady Asma Al-Assad.
On January 03, the Central Bank of Syria (CBS) devalued the Syrian pound in its Official exchange rate bulletin, raising it to SYP 2,500 per US dollar from SYP 1,250. It has also recently eased restrictions on daily bank withdrawals, gradually reversing a previous measure that was adopted to strengthen the national currency.
وضع رئيس مجلس الوزراء في كانون الأول 2021، حجر الأساس لمشروع ضاحية الأمل السكنية في منطقة النقارنة جنوبي مدينة حماة، على طريق حماة-حلب.
The Quneitra Governorate and notables from the city of Khan Arnabeh reached an agreement in late 2021 to address the lack of state property within real estate zone number 1/58, according to a quote attributed by the Al-Watan newspaper to the director of Cadastral Affairs in the Quneitra Governorate.
توصلت محافظة القنيطرة ووجهاء من مدينة خان أرنبة، نهاية العام 2021، إلى اتفاق يعالج مسألة النقص في أملاك الدولة ضمن المنطقة العقارية 1/58، بحسب ما نقلته صحيفة الوطن عن مدير المصالح العقارية في محافظة القنيطرة.
In late 2021, the local council in Azaz, a city under opposition control in the northern part of the Aleppo Governorate, carried out its first demolition of a “building violation” constructed without a licence. Despite the apparent symbolic nature of the demolition, the council attempted to demonstrate that it is serious about addressing so-called “building violations” and reining in the informal expansion of the city. The council also employed military force in the form of opposition National Army fighters to implement the demolition.
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