Battles intensified in northwest Syria on Friday after insurgents mounted an attack to repel an army offensive that has pounded the country’s last major rebel stronghold for weeks. State news Continue Reading
US-led forces have blown up three oil tankers in Syria as the United States increases its pressure on Syria by thwarting the oil trade between the PKK/YPG and the Assad Continue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attend a news conference, after a meeting in the Black sea resort of Sochi on 14 February, 2019 [File: Reuters/Sergei Chirikov] Continue Reading
The Syrian regime-held city of Aleppo is in the midst of a fuel crisis. Since early April, fuel shortages have plagued the city, where hundreds of vehicles queue daily at Continue Reading
With its legal oil export avenues cut off by the end of all U.S. sanction waivers for its crude oil buyers, Iran has recently resumed illicit shipping of oil to Continue Reading
Arab residents of the oil-rich Deir Ezzor area in Syria have been protesting for weeks against the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces that control the region east of the Euphrates river, with Continue Reading
Taxi drivers push cars that ran out of fuel to a petrol station in Damascus on April 16. Syria has been forced to adopt new measures to curb fuel shortages Continue Reading
Syria has suffered oil shortages since an Iranian credit line was halted six months ago and not one oil tanker has reached the country since then, a pro-government newspaper said Continue Reading
Government blames problem on Western sanctions impacting import of petroleum products Addressing Syria’s fuel shortages is the aim of new measures adopted by Damascus on Sunday. President Bashar al-Assad’s government Continue Reading
The regime, backed by Iran and Russia, controls almost two-thirds of Syria after a series of victories against rebels and jihadists since 2015, but the country’s main oil and gas Continue Reading
