A merchant holds a wad of Syrian pounds at a market in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria on September 10, 2019. - The declining value of the pound is a sure sign of Syria's ailing economy.
The civil war has battered the country's finances and depleted its foreign reserves.
A flurry of international sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad's regime and associated businessmen since the start of the war in 2011 has compounded the situation. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
