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All day, dinghies cross the Euphrates River to shuttle residents into the pulverised cityscape of Syria’s Raqa, where bridges, homes, and schools remain gutted...
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The United States said Wednesday it will refuse any post-war reconstruction assistance to Syria if Iran is present, expanding the rationale for US involvement...
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Russia on Friday urged world powers to help Syria’s economic recovery and the return of refugees as its Damascus ally pressed on with a...
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Khaled’s delicate hands were accustomed to cutting and styling hair in his Syrian hometown Harasta. Now, they’re hauling concrete and sweeping floors to repair...
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After giving up on getting help from Syrian Kurdish authorities, Ahmed Saleh relied on relatives abroad to repair his home in Kobane after it...
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Atop an enormous mound of rubble under blistering sun in Iraq’s second city Mosul, fire crews and police chip away at a grim but...
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The United Arab Emirates and Iraq on Monday launched a joint effort to reconstruct Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its iconic leaning minaret,...
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After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 there were hopes its millennium-old capital Baghdad could rise again from the ashes, but construction sites...
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Three months ago, Ibrahim Ali was using his digger to smash down defensive embankments built by Islamic State group jihadists in northern Iraq. But...
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Governments, global funds, organisations and investors on Wednesday pledged billions of dollars in loans and investment for the reconstruction of Iraq, a nation reeling...