Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crowd gathers outside the Foreign Exchange Center at Yousef Azmen Square in Damascus, Syria, in August. Standing in the ...

Standing in the dilapidated ATM hall of his bank, Maher Elias huffed a sigh equal parts exasperation and exhaustion. Around him were lines dozens of people deep, all of them, like the 59-year-old ...