Latest economic and financial news about Syria, currency markets, and regional economy updates.
The free-zones authority signed eight investment contracts with four local, regional, and foreign companies on 13 October 2026, allocating about 625,000 square meters in the Tanf and Yaarubiyah free zones for industry, logistics, and cross-border trade.
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Syria's Ministry of Agriculture issued a temporary decision regulating the import and sale of a range of Turkish-origin agricultural and veterinary products, capped at three years and tied to technical and oversight controls aimed at curbing smuggled and unregulated goods.
Read More →Four months after delivering their harvest, many Syrian farmers remain unpaid. The state grain buyer has settled only 37 percent of the roughly 2.75 million tonnes of wheat received in 2026, leaving growers short of cash to fund the next planting season.
Read More →Syria's finance minister met Citigroup, the Arab Monetary Fund and World Bank officials at the 2026 IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok to discuss credit lines for government imports, a future bond market and faster access to Arab payment systems.
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On the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, Syria's finance minister reviewed $493 million in existing World Bank grants on 12 October 2026 and pressed to expand financing for reconstruction.
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A 16,000-tonne diesel tanker began unloading at the Baniyas depots on 12 October 2026, with fuel set to reach all governorates at 150 Syrian pounds per liter as a second tanker waits offshore.
Read More →President Ahmad al-Sharaa issued Decree No. 188 of 2026, amending items of Syria's harmonized customs tariff and changing their descriptions, codes, duty rates and applicable conditions. The measure takes effect from its issuance on 12 October 2026.
Read More →Diesel disappeared from most stations in Aleppo and Idlib on 12 October 2026 as deliveries stalled, with one station owner saying he paid about 2.1 billion Syrian pounds for 110,000 liters that never arrived. The energy minister ordered an investigation.
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The Central Bank of Syria says it has completed the country’s first documentary credit transaction in 14 years to finance petroleum imports from Saudi Aramco, in coordination with a major U.S. bank.
Read More →The share of food-secure households in Syria rose to 17.4 percent in 2025 from 10.3 percent a year earlier, but about 31 percent remained food insecure and the poorest families spent 73 percent of their budgets on food.
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