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The official statements made last July—chief among them the remarks of the Governor of the Central Bank of Syria, who affirmed that, in accordance with the directives of the Presidency of the Republic, the country would not resort to external debt n…
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In recent weeks, new statements and indications have emerged regarding the printing of new banknotes and their introduction into circulation starting early next year. This issue can be considered an economic and social time bomb with a direct impact…
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Last Thursday, November 6, 2025, the UN Security Council adopted a new resolution on Syria, numbered 2799 (2025), which removed the transitional president Ahmad al-Sharaa and Minister of Interior Anas Khattab from the terrorism lists, and — for the…
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The recently announced decision to raise electricity prices by the Ministry of Energy was nothing less than an explicit declaration of moving in the exact opposite direction of the interests of Syrians. It is a continuation of a methodology that fac…
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The Syrian people are a single, integrated political unit and cannot be defined as merely a sum of ethnicities, religions, sects, and tribes. This integrated unity contains a contradiction between the plunderers and the plundered: the plunderers, wh…
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The past ten months — specifically after the transitional president Ahmad Al-Shar’a’s visit to Russia on Wednesday, October 15 — make it possible to objectively assess of the American role in Syria. Despite the “sweet talk” and repeated promises, US…
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Shortly after “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation on 7 October 2023, and the start of the Zionist’s brutal genocidal war against the Palestinian people, Kassioun wrote in its editorial 1154 on 24 December 2023, titled “Beyond Gaza”, the following: “Perhaps th…
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About a week ago, Trump presented a “new proposal” containing 20 points to end the war on Gaza. Arab states accepted it before Netanyahu introduced amendments thereto. Hamas responded with a shrewd diplomatic reply that neither rejected nor accepted…
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The last Kassioun editorial, titled “He Who Perseveres Wins... He Who Gives Up Will Be Defeated”, addressed the recent talk of a forthcoming “security agreement” with “Israel”. This talk intensified over the past week, coinciding with the UN General…
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Official and journalistic sources, both Syrian and non-Syrian, are talking about the possibility of a US-sponsored “security agreement” with the “Israeli” entity soon. The discussions include various details about the nature of the supposed agreemen…