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The Syrian pound has collapsed since the war started 14 years ago. In March 2011, the exchange rate was 48 pounds to the US dollar. The rate is now about 10,000 pounds to a dollar. Of ...

Eid al-Fitr was bittersweet this year for Samah Abdullah, 35, and her family in the Reef Dimashq city of Douma. The daily struggle to make ends meet muddied the “joy of coming together with some ...

For 54 years, Syria existed in the shadow of a silence so profound, it swallowed entire lives.

Seated on the pavement outside a bank in central Damascus, Abu Fares's face is worn with exhaustion as he waits to collect a ...

In a country with about 1.25 million public sector employees, civil servants must queue at one of two state banks or affiliated ATMs to make withdrawals, capped at about 200,000 Syrian pounds ...

Economist Georges Khouzam explained that foreign exchange vendors -- whose work was outlawed under Assad -- "deliberately reduced cash flows in Syrian pounds to provoke rapid fluctuations in the ...