After 13 years of repression of Syria's uprising, killing 100,000s of civilians, Assad regime presides over fragmented country and an economy in free fall.
Futile salary increase and fuel price hikes: Assad angers citizens and drags Syria towards a true catastrophe – Syria Direct syriadirect.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from syriadirect.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate is gaining ground from rival rebels in Syria's Turkish-held north on the heels of some of the deadliest inter-rebel fighting in the region in years.
Damascus is reducing the gap between the official dollar exchange rate, which lags behind the widely used black market rate. The latter is the lodestar for Syrian traders, as it reflects the real value of the Syrian pound.
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