Latest economic and financial news about Syria, currency markets, and regional economy updates.
Syria's Transport Ministry has begun a wide plan to rebuild the central road network, opening the international M45 highway and other corridors to bids from specialized international firms.
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Syria's fuel pricing committee will review petroleum prices every 15 days using market indicators, with all official prices set exclusively in Syrian pounds. The shift follows a decree that cut fuel prices by 14 to 20 percent.
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Turkey's interior minister said Syrians under temporary protection no longer need work permits to take jobs, a change covering roughly 2.26 million people and aimed at drawing them into the formal labor market.
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Syria's customs authority reported intercepting more than 1.3 million captagon pills, counterfeit dollars and pounds, gold, antiquities and weapons during the first six months of 2026, framing the campaign as a defense of the national economy.
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Syria's finance minister ordered a committee to speed up settling non-performing loans owed to the European Investment Bank, under a March 2026 decree allowing rescheduling and penalty waivers.
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Syria has received about 860,000 tons of wheat from farmers this season, with Hasakah province alone delivering some 300,000 tons and expected to exceed one million tons.
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A Syrian delegation joined the World Customs Organization Council's 147th and 148th sessions in Brussels on 26 June 2026, the country's first return to the body in years, presenting a new customs law, a unified ports and customs authority, and an updated tariff.
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Syria's finance ministry met its two main pension bodies on 26 June 2026 to speed up the executive instructions needed to apply an already-issued decree raising retirees' pensions, aiming to reflect the increase in upcoming payments.
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An oil-well service rig known as XJ has returned to operation in the central region's fields in Homs after an overhaul carried out with domestic expertise, restoring capacity to repair oil and gas wells.
Read More →The Local Administration Ministry approved 2026 operating budgets for 106 city councils across 11 governorates between 14 May and 1 June, giving local units binding allocations to fund services and projects.
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