...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...has issued a new decree preventing buying or selling of real estates in areas under their control in Syrian pound. In an official statement, HTS marked out the
On Tuesday, SOHR activists monitored large collapse in the value of the Syrian pound against foreign currency in areas under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and opposition factions in Idlib and surrounding countryside.
The exchange rate of the Syrian pound against the US dollar ranged in these areas between 3,000 and 3,500 SYL, creating large disparity in the exchange rate between regime-held areas and areas under the control of HTS and rebels.
According to SOHR sources, the major reasons behind the Syrian currency plunge were the adoption of the
In addition, there were some merchants and currency exchange shop’s owners who deliberately left a negative impact on the Syrian currency’s value by buying and selling currency in different rates. These merchants poured the Syrian pound into regime-held areas in exchange of the US dollar, then they exchange the US dollars with the