The Syrian government is continuing to reduce the quantity of subsidised bread allocated to consumers as it pares back subsidies on other key commodities, fuelling already soaring living costs and posing more risks to food security.

The Syrian government recently published the results of its first comprehensive survey of small and medium enterprises in Syria, which found that only 59.2 percent of the 800,000 companies surveyed were operational.

Russia has delivered a second batch of vaccinations to Syria amid warnings of the risk posed by the Delta variant despite a slower rate of infection over the past month.

Details of two renewable energy projects came to light this week after President Bashar Al-Assad touted green energy as the alternative to conventional power sources as the country is gripped by fuel shortages.