Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad blamed the financial downfall in Lebanon and not the sweeping US sanctions as the root cause of the ongoing economic crisis in the war-torn country. Speaking during a tour of a trade fair broadcast on state media on Wednesday, Assad said billions of dollars of deposits ...
President Bashar Al-Assad received on Thursday a Russian delegation from the Defense and Foreign Ministries headed by Russian President’s Special Envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev. Talks during the meeting dealt with the upcoming international refugees conference scheduled to be held in Damascus next November and the efforts made by both ...