Syrian regime leader Assad fires his prime minister a month ahead of elections as country's economic crisis worsens
In this January 17, 2017 file photo, Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis listens to Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in a meeting in Tehran, Iran.
Syria has been in the throes of an economic crisis, with the currency plunging to record lows in recent days, aggravating hardships for ordinary Syrians battered by years of war. The regime has criticised a wave of new, tighter US sanctions, known as the Caesar Act, which takes effect later this month which economists and politicians say will further tighten the noose around Assad's government.Arnous, 67, was born in Idlib and had served in a long succession of government posts, including the governor of Deir Ezzor province that borders Iraq and Quneitra province in southern Syria.
In rare demonstrations in regime-controlled areas that did not rise against Assad's rule at the outset of Syria's war, protesters called for the his overthrow.
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