The Syrian pound rises against the dollar, a week after the overthrow of Assad

With the opposition factions approaching Damascus, on the eve of the overthrow of Assad, the exchange rate in the parallel market recorded a record level of thirty thousand pounds against the dollar, after it was fixed for months at 15 thousand pounds.

The exchange rate ranged on Monday, in Damascus, between ten and 12 thousand, according to a cashier, jewelry merchant and a receptionist in a prominent hotel. A Lebanese taxi driver told AFP that he sold the dollar at a price of nine thousand Syrian pounds, before crossing the border from Lebanon to Syria..