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Syria Global Visa Mastercard Payments Now

There’s something almost mundane about paying for dinner with a credit card. You tap, it beeps, you move on with your life. But in Damascus last week, that mundane moment carried real weight because for the first time in over 15 years, it actually worked. On August 27, Mastercard and Qatar National Bank Group pulled […]

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa paid for a coffee in Damascus using a Visa card, in a symbolic gesture to reintegrate the country into the international financial system. Accompanied by the governor of the central bank, Mohammed Safwat Raslan, al-Sharaa used the card at a cafe in the old city of Damascus. “For more than 15 years, such a simple transaction was impossible,” the video description said. The move came after the US removed Syria from…

Has the international payment cards returned to Syria? On solution N. Images of the use of international payment cards in Damascus are no longer a symbolic scene reflecting a change in Syria's relationship with the global financial system, but rather a practical guide to the article's actual operation or limited experience... Has the international payment cards returned to Syria?

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The Syrian president made his first payment with the global banking network. The post Visa and MasterCard reactivated in Syria with sanctions relief appeared first on Digato.

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دیجیاتو broke the news on Saturday, August 29, 2026.
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