A new COVID-19 strain and the possible return of Iranian crude to global markets could inflict “short-term pains” to Gulf oil producers whose local populations hold on to the oil era.

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that HTS arrested two fighters of the Islamic movement of “Ahrar al-Sham”, as they passed through the HTS checkpoint at the Al-Ghzawiya crossing in north-west Aleppo. No information has been repoted to date about the reasons for the arrest.

SOHR sources in the city of Al-Mayadeen in eastern rural Deir ez-Zor said that an explosion occurred yesterday in a fuel store in the area of al-Tayba in the city, which resulted in the death of two children.