US Sanction

Syria’s central bank devalued the Syrian pound on Wednesday giving in to weeks of depreciation on the black market as new US sanctions took effect. The central bank raised the official exchange rate from 704 to 1,256 Syrian pounds to the…

American citizen Mustafa Kassem, who has been imprisoned in Egypt since 2013, has died of heart failure following months of hunger strike. Kassem, 54, started his hunger strike after being convicted of trying to overthrow the government…