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Syria Diesel Prices Jump 40% Triggering Widespread Unrest

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 14th September 2026 Global

What the source reported

Source-reported

Syria raised diesel prices 40% and gasoline prices by as much as 28% on Saturday, and protesters blocked the highway linking Damascus to Aleppo and burned tires along the road to Turkey within 24 hours, the widest unrest since Bashar al-Assad's fall in December 2024. Diesel now costs 175 Syrian pounds a liter and household and industrial gas prices climbed roughly 9%. Protests also broke out in Hama, Khan Sheikhoun and Maarat al-Numan, and crude tanker convoys bound for refineries were halted en route. Syria's Energy Ministry called the increase…

Publication
Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
14th September 2026
Original report
oilprice.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
Organisations
None identified
Collected
14th September 2026 · 15:58

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Moderate (32.0/100). Strongest contributor: Likely Event Severity (15.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (48.75/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

Strongest contributor
Likely Event Severity
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth