VOA Kurdish: Syrian currency increased; prices remain high  

FILE - A workers carries a bag of Syrian currency notes to Syrian central bank, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Dec. 16, 2024.

After the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the value of the Syrian currency increased against the U.S. dollar, but the price of goods remains high. Residents say that traders are exploiting this situation and that official monitoring institutions are not properly preventing this.