Syrian President Bashar Assad today issued a presidential decree to give thousands of civil servants and soldiers a 50 percent wage increase in this time of economic crisis and financial crisis as well as rising commodity prices.
Assad's decision comes a day after the country's government doubled the price of bread, which is the country's staple food, and a 180 percent increase in the price of diesel fuel.
The presidential decree now sets the minimum wage to $ 22 a month. of the West, corruption and recent economic and financial crisis in neighboring Lebanon. The final salary increase was announced in November 2019
