As the government takes control of resource-rich areas, rebuilding trust, maintaining support and navigating delicate dynamics will be key to achieving a united Syria.
Syrian government seizes control of key oil and gas fields: What it means
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Deir Az Zor, Syria – On the broad, windswept plains through which the Euphrates River snakes, the land remembers every war that has passed across it. The oil-rich soil of al-Omar, the turbines of the Tabqa Dam and the cautious return of families to towns long abandoned tell a story as old as Syria itself: one of power, survival and the struggle to unify a fractured country.
