Cash woes leaves Syrians queueing for hours to collect salaries

Cash woes leaves Syrians queueing for hours to collect salaries

Since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime last December, Syria has been struggling to emerge from the wake of nearly 14 years of civil war, and its banking sector is no exception. Seated on the pavement outside a bank in central Damascus, Abu Fares's face is worn with exhaustion as he waits to collect a small portion of his pension. "I've been here for four hours and I haven't so much as touched my pension," said the 77-year-old, who did n…