In government-held Syria, residents struggling with ballooning inflation and shortages hope the rapprochement will bring more investment and ease a crippling economic crisis
BEIRUT: Lebanese officials on Monday suggested that the country could soon end its presidential vacuum and political deadlock by electing a new leader. After meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Edward Gabriel, president of the American Task Force for Lebanon, said that the speaker informed him that “a session will be held soon to elect a president.” The American Task