The Challenge of Rebuilding Syria

Ben Hubbard, David Guttenfelder, Rebecca Suner and James Surdam
6/24/2025

After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new flag flies across Syria: the emblem of the rebels who toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Ben Hubbard, The New York Times’s Istanbul bureau chief, describes what our journalists learned as they drove across Syria, meeting people in towns and cities along the way as they strove to rise from the wreckage and build new lives....

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