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Damascus' supporters eager to get share of reconstruction cake

Ostensibly there to discuss the refugee issue, future reconstruction contracts in Syria were foremost in the minds of Bashar Al Assad's supporters gathered in Damascus earlier this month. [...] (471 words)

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