Latest economic and financial news about Syria, currency markets, and regional economy updates.
Syrian ports and customs officials reviewed implementation steps with a Turkish company for an integrated shipyard at Tartus port, billed as one of the largest investments in the country's maritime sector.
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Syria's grain authority says its wheat reserves are enough to cover basic ration needs and keep bread and flour stable, and that imports will pause for the current harvest season.
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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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