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News Syria Finance: Turkish Security Council Mulls Syrian Operation, Despite Washington's Warnings

Published on: Tuesday 30 July 2019
Turkish Security Council Mulls Syrian Operation, Despite Washington's Warnings
News source: https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/turkish-security-council-mulls-syrian-operation-despite-washingtons-warnings

Turkey's National Security Council met Tuesday to decide whether to launch a military offensive into Syria against the YPG Kurdish militia.  With Washington backing the YPG and warning against any unilateral action, the two NATO allies could be on a collision course. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chaired the meeting, which brought together his military and intelligence chiefs.

News Syria Finance: FPM: EU's Latest Financial Support for Syrian Refugees Would Encourage Them to Stay In Lebanon

Published on: Saturday 27 July 2019
FPM: EU's Latest Financial Support for Syrian Refugees Would Encourage Them to Stay In Lebanon
News source: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1832906/fpm-eus-latest-financial-support-syrian-refugees-would-encourage-them-stay

Some Lebanese parties fear that the new financial contribution from the European Union to support Syrian refugees in Lebanon could mean that the international community doesn't aim to help refugees to ...

News Syria Finance: Why the Syrian Endgame Is Looking Like a Stalemate

Published on: Monday 29 July 2019
Why the Syrian Endgame Is Looking Like a Stalemate
News source: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/29/why-syrian-endgame-looking-stalemate.html

The group began as al-Qaida in Syria and has gone through six different name changes as it has tried to disassociate itself from al-Qaida and its origins. It has received financial assistance from ...

News Syria Finance: Syria’s returnees out of the frying pan into the fire

Published on: Sunday 21 July 2019
Syria’s returnees out of the frying pan into the fire
News source: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1528816

A Lebanese official exclaimed: “These Syrians are going to eat us alive” after coming off the phone from an animated discussion about the ongoing crackdown against illegal Syrian workers and Syrian-run businesses. Sitting in his office, I asked how he felt that many who had lost sources of revenue would be compelled to return to Syria and suffer their fate. “That’s not my

News Syria Finance: Student-funded scholarship helps Syrian student graduate from Wilfrid Laurier

Published on: Tuesday 11 June 2019
Student-funded scholarship helps Syrian student graduate from Wilfrid Laurier
News source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/students-overcoming-war-scholarship-1.5165349

Saleh came to Canada from Syria. Despite the war, she was able to complete her ... Saleh said she wanted to empower other young newcomer girls through soccer so used crowdfunding to finance two teams. ...

News Syria Finance: US sanctions Syrian businessman Samer Foz, entities for links to Assad

Published on: Tuesday 11 June 2019
US sanctions Syrian businessman Samer Foz, entities for links to Assad
News source: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1509481/middle-east

WASHINGTON: The US on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Samer Foz, a Syrian industrialist behind high-end developments, including the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, for allegedly enriching President Bashar Assad. "This Syrian oligarch is directly supporting the murderous Assad regime and building luxury developments on land stolen from those fleeing his brutality," Sigal

News Syria Finance: Trump administration takes action against an accused war profiteer with ties to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

Published on: Tuesday 11 June 2019
Trump administration takes action against an accused war profiteer with ties to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad
News source: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-takes-action-against-170424381.html

"This Syrian oligarch is directly supporting the murderous Assad regime and building luxury developments on land stolen from those fleeing his brutality," Sigal Mandelker, a Treasury official, said in a statement.

News Syria Finance: Syria takes part in 72nd World Health Assembly next Monday in Geneva

Published on: Saturday 18 May 2019
Syria takes part in 72nd World Health Assembly next Monday in Geneva
News source: https://sana.sy/en/?p=165884

Syria is taking part with a delegation headed ... appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held ...

News Syria Finance: In Syria, Bashar al-Assad Chose Barrel Bombs Over Ballots

Published on: Sunday 12 May 2019
In Syria, Bashar al-Assad Chose Barrel Bombs Over Ballots
News source: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/syria-bashar-al-assad-chose-barrel-bombs-over-ballots-56747

Syria will be a broken, poverty-stricken country for at least a generation. The country is in a massive financial hole, unable to pay its debts to countries like Iran and Russia who rode to Assad ...

News Syria Finance: Russia says Syrian government forces halt fire in Idlib

Published on: Sunday 19 May 2019
Russia says Syrian government forces halt fire in Idlib
News source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-says-syrian-government-forces-halt-fire-idlib-114336760.html

MOSCOW (AP) — Syrian government forces have unilaterally ceased fire in the northern Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold, Russia said Sunday, while opposition activists reported continued shelling and airstrikes.

News Syria Finance: North Carolina Catering Company Helps Syrian Refugees Find Financial Independence Through Food

Published on: Tuesday 07 May 2019
North Carolina Catering Company Helps Syrian Refugees Find Financial Independence Through Food
News source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/megykarydes/2019/05/07/north-carolina-catering-company-helps-syrian-refugees-find-financial-independence-through-food/

Shereen Abdelfattah emigrated to the United States from Egypt with her family in 2002 because her husband was completing a college degree at the time. They moved to the Triad, North Carolina, area in ...

News Syria Finance: Syria: Tell Families of Missing the Fate of Loved Ones

Published on: Monday 13 May 2019
News source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/05/syria-tell-families-of-missing-the-fate-of-loved-ones/

The Syrian government targeted those who were perceived to oppose ... protect and are guided by relevant human rights obligations and standards, create and finance programmes aimed at ensuring justice ...

News Syria Finance: Putin’s Syrian Playbook Won’t Work in Venezuela

Published on: Sunday 12 May 2019
News source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/putin-syrian-playbook-won-t-063013400.html

This is what Lavrov did in Syria. While Russian mercenaries and bombers pulverized civilians with the help of Iran’s militias, Lavrov met with then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to ...

News Syria Finance: EU Financial Support for Stabilization in Eastern Syria

Published on: Thursday 02 May 2019
News source: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1705891/eu-financial-support-stabilization-eastern-syria

The European Union has adopted a new 18 million euro program to support stabilization work in areas liberated from ISIS by the Global Coalition in northeastern Syria. It said the new program will ...

News Syria Finance: Rights groups urge action on fate of Syria’s missing persons

Published on: Monday 13 May 2019
News source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2019/05/13/Rights-groups-urge-action-on-fate-of-Syria-s-missing-persons.html

Aramco CEO’s full session in the Financial Sector Conference Face to ... Iran must stop using Syria as a platform to threaten neighbors Zarifa Mahmoud Nazzal shows pictures as she speaks of ...