Tag: Syria: $200bn to reconstruct war-torn

NOVANEWS Aleppo, Syria © Karam Almasri / Global Look Press By Finian Cunningham  With Syria’s nearly seven-year war now virtually over, the process of rebuilding the devastated country comes to the fore, with the financial cost of that effort put at $200 billion. Who pays for it? When you view the ruins of Aleppo alone, Syria’s second biggest city, plus the carnage across the entire country, from towns, villages, bridges, roads, public utilities, hospitals, schools, and so on, the real figure for reconstruction could be far higher than $200 billion. Then there is the inestimable cost of human suffering and families decimated. All told, the reparations could amount to trillions of dollars. Syria’s war was no ordinary civil war, as Western mainstream media tended to mendaciously depict...