Gareth Browne
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first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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The Intelligence from The Economist · A firm Andy: what are new British PM’s plans? · 20 Jul 2026
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Rebuilding Syria is a mammoth undertaking.
And that takes more than peace, it takes politics, it takes confidence.
Most importantly, it requires money and lots of it.
Everything you can think of, from roads and rebuilding houses to rebuilding the telecoms infrastructure, water infrastructure, energy infrastructure.
The list is so long, I can't really do it justice.
So when you drive around Jobar, which was once a pretty wealthy, prosperous, middle class suburb of Damascus, you really get a sense of the scale of the reconstruction requirements.
You see the sort of skeletons of houses, apartment blocks.
You look closely at them and you see it's literally just bricks and mortar.
There's nothing else there, there's bullet holes, and then you sort of notice that not only have these houses been damaged and abandoned, but they've then been scavenged.
So some of them don't have doors, there's no stairs going up to the second floor, all the wiring and metalwork has been stripped out.
These houses and these buildings.
Buildings are beyond repair.
They have to be knocked down.
There's no coherent sense of a community or a society or a place that can be inhabited.
And these are not small corners of the capital.
These are like vast, vast suburbs, which were the beating heart of Syria's middle class.
They're just gone.
And that's in Damascus.
When you go north, when you go to the northeast.
When you go to places like Aleppo and Homs, the devastation is even worse.
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