The implications for Syria are grave. The violence shatters the dream that the country might avoid retributive violence and ...

Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children scavenge in dumpsters for food. Men pull copper wire from buildings and ...

Abdulaziz Ketaz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Supported by ... then, yes, Syria is going in this direction,” he told The Economist in an interview published this month.

chief economist and head of the economic research and analysis department at Byblos Bank Group. "The Central Bank will have to play a leading role in implementing the measures to remove Syria from ...