Please try again Few Canadians appreciate the depths of chocolate’s moral virtues better than Tareq Hadhad, 30, the Syrian war refugee whose new chocolate store has just opened on Main Street in …
Addictive Drug Captagon Is Financial Savior of Hizbullah and Syria
Lebanese militia aids Assad regime in the production and distribution of millions of pills per year [Beirut] It has been known for years that Hizbullah uses the drug-trafficking industry as one of its …
Turkey in Talks With Russia About Using Syrian Airspace in Potential Operation
Turkey is in talks with Russia to use the airspace above northern Syria for a potential cross-border operation against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on …
The Syrian Family That Rebuilt a Chocolate Empire in Nova Scotia
Seven years on, Peace by Chocolate continues to expand, and its founder has become an advocate of more open immigration.
Jordan battles influx of cheap amphetamines from neighboring Syria
In the first part of our series on the regional drug trade in the Middle East, we explored how crystal meth is affecting Iraq. In this segment, we turn our attention to Captagon, a cheap amphetamine …
India offers $280 million to Syria for building power, steel plant
About 1500 scholarships have been provided to Syrian students to study in India in diverse streams, including 200 scholarships in the current academic year itself …
India offers $280 million to Syria for building power, steel plant
About 1500 scholarships have been provided to Syrian students to study in India in diverse streams, including 200 scholarships in the current academic year itself …
Syria racked by fuel crisis ‘in worst year yet’
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Syria news every morning. The wages Youssef once earned as a taxi driver in Aleppo used to be enough: though the days were often long, …
Syria racked by fuel crisis ‘in worst year yet’
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Syria news every morning. The wages Youssef once earned as a taxi driver in Aleppo used to be enough: though the days were often long, …
Captagon crisis: Jordan’s struggle to curb the flow of narcotics from Syria
Its latest incarnation is the stimulant pill known as Captagon, the market for which flows from Syria to Jordan, then to more lucrative markets in inner Arabia. In the past few weeks Jordan has …