DAMASCUS – President Bashar Assad issued on Sunday law no. 43 for 2017 on setting the state general budget for the 2018 fiscal year.

The law set the allocations of the state general budget at SYP 3,187 billion distributed as indicated in the table of expenditures accompanying the law, according to SANA.

Damascus - President Bashar al-Assad participated on Wednesday in a religious celebration, held by the Ministry of Islamic endowments, on the occasion of Prophet Mohammad’s birthday at al-Afram mosque in Damascus.

The president performed al-Isha prayers, led by Imam Adnan al-Afyouni, the Mufti of Damascus and its countryside, SANA reported.

Minister of Endowments Mohammad Abdul-Sattar Assayed said that Prophet Mohammad was sent for the good and mercy of humanity to enlighten the whole world.

He referred to the political and religious reforms that have been realized in Syria, affirming that the Syrian people have supported the Syrian Arab army in the war against terrorism, this support that gave birth to a great victory under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad.

The celebration was concluded by a prayer for Sheikh al-Afyouni who supplicated God to keep Syria and its army safe.

DAMASCUS- President Bashar Al-Assad and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in a phone conversation on Saturday affirmed their determination to continue the fight against terrorism until all terrorist organizations in Syria are eliminated.

President Rouhani stressed his country's firm support for the Syrian people until security and stability is restored to the entire Syrian territory and vowed assistance in reconstructing what the terrorists had destroyed during years of war.

The Iranian president reiterated that the Syrian people is the only party that has the right to decide the future of Syria away from foreign intervention, pointing out that the tripartite Summit in Sochi came to stress this right which is guaranteed by the UN Charter and the international law.

Sochi _ H.E. President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Russian city of Sochi in the presence of a number of senior Russian political and military officials.

President Putin congratulated President al-Assad over the successes achieved in Syria in the fight against terrorism, stressing that the Syrian people are approaching victory over the terrorists, according to SANA.

DAMASCUS, (ST- President Bashar Al-Assad has affirmed that developments in several countries of the region and the world have proved that since the beginning of the war, Syria has adopted right policies in the face of other policies adopted  by some regional and Western countries that have sought achieving their interests through spreading chaos in and destabilizing an important and sensitive region like the Middle East without taking the disastrous results of such policies into consideration.