Syria Removes Assad’s Face from Currency, Replacing Him with National Symbols

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa rolled out the country’s new currency at a ceremony in Damascus on Monday.

The redesigned banknotes have been redenominated, which means they have fewer zeroes in the amounts, and they no longer bear the visage of deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad, memorably condemned as a “gas-killing animal” by President Donald Trump in 2018.

Sharaa said the new designs symbolize “the end of a previous, unlamented phase and the beginning of a new phase that the Syrian people, and the peoples of the region who are hopeful about the modern Syrian reality, aspire to.”

“The new currency design is an expression of the new…

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