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Syrian Kurdish region increases salaries amid currency crash

by Associated Press
| June 18, 2020 6:27 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — As Syria's economy plummeted further, the local Kurdish-led authority controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in the country's north said Thursday it was more than doubling the salaries of its employees to make up for the loss of the value of the Syrian pound.

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