Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

So is Syria’s largest commercial bank. The Syrian pound has lost 99% of its value since the start of the civil war in 2011.

including new Syrian banknotes, secure paper and military components. But there is no record of the Russian lenders who received the banknotes taking any other shipments of cash from Syria or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted around $250mn in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the ...

Syria’s energy crisis deepened throughout the 13 years of the Assad regime with heavy reliance on Iranian imports ...

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Remnants of Assad regime and its Russian backers are being ripped down, but building back the asset-stripped economy may ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The near-broke central bank sent almost $400 million in bulk shipments between 2018 and 2019 to Russia when the dictator was indebted to the Kremlin. Syria’s Bashar al-Assad piled almost $400m ...

Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted about $250 million in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the then Syrian dictator was indebted to the Kremlin for military support and his ...