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  • New Internationalist

    COUNTRY PROFILE

    Feb 25, 2019 2 minutes
    ZOE HOLMAN

    friend from Aleppo laughs cynically as she describes the fighters occupying her home city in the days before she left. ‘It was like the United Colours of Benetton – French, Pakistanis, Afghans, Belgians… even a guy from China!’ Just as rivalry among imperial powers over Damascus led to the creation of Syria, it is at the hands of international interests that

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