
Issue 15
Syria’s Economy a Year into Assad’s Downfall: The Good, the Bad, and Ugly
Karam Shaar Post-conflict power transitions are inherently messy; one year is far too short to fully disentangle signal from noise.

Karam Shaar Post-conflict power transitions are inherently messy; one year is far too short to fully disentangle signal from noise.

Following a year marked by profound political and economic shifts in Syria, the exchange rate of the pound (SYP) remained

Nearly a year after Assad’s toppling, the October 2025 parliamentary elections marked the first institutional test of the transitional period.

On the eve of the Assad regime’s collapse in December 2024, an Iranian oil tanker bound for Syria made a

Within hours of opposition fighters arriving in Damascus on 8 December 2024, Israeli military forces launched a large-scale ground operation