Mahmud Nadim Metqal, head of the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria (CBS), is facing charges before the nation's economic security court, a lawyer who spoke on condition of anonymity told AFP.

The head of the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria (CBS) was arrested earlier this week after losing five million dollars in bank funds in a bad transaction, reported the official newspaper Tishrin.

and a string of banks including the Agricultural Cooperative Bank and the CommercIal Bank of Syria. But hundreds of sanctions still remain in place against individuals and entities. Foreign Office ...

including the Industrial Bank and the Commercial Bank of Syria, have been lifted LONDON, March 6. /TASS/. The UK government has lifted sanctions that were imposed on a number of Syrian banks ...

Syria's new government has called repeatedly for the lifting of western sanctions that were imposed during the war. The announcement said entities including the central bank, the Commercial Bank ...

Included are the Central Bank of Syria, the Agricultural Cooperative Bank, the Commercial Bank of Syria, Syrian Arab Airlines, General Petroleum Corporation (GPC), and Syrian Oil Trading Company ...