Protests break out across Syria over fuel price increases

Demonstrators pain tyres and artifact highways arsenic protests implicit accrued substance prices grip Syrian cities.

Protests person erupted crossed respective cities successful Syria aft the authorities accrued substance prices, with demonstrators blocking a main road for respective hours.

The authorities raised prices connected Sunday by up to 40 percent connected diesel and 28 percent connected petrol, successful what it said were impermanent increases caused by a crisp emergence successful the planetary outgo of securing fuel.

Syria’s authorities besides cited an overhaul of the captious Baniyas refinery for higher prices, saying it volition rise capableness from 80,000 to 130,000 barrels per day.

A protester burns tyres connected the road betwixt Aleppo and Turkiye to protestation against substance terms increases successful Syria connected September 13, 2026 [Mahmoud Hassano/Reuters]

Protests were reported successful Hama, Khan Sheikhoun and Maarat al-Numan. Footage published by Al Jazeera shows crowds gathering connected the thoroughfare and burning tyres. The terms increases besides prompted fierce statement connected societal media.

The state is presently producing astir 102,000 barrels of lipid per day, portion it needs astir 325,000 barrels per time for home depletion and is relying connected imports to marque up the difference, Syrian Energy Minister Mohammed al-Bashir said connected Saturday.

The Ministry of Energy said it would proceed to reappraisal prices arsenic planetary marketplace conditions alteration and would enactment implicit the agelong word to grow refining and retention capacity, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

Syria’s substance supplies are cardinal to the country’s economical betterment arsenic it seeks to rebuild aft 14 years of war.