Reconstruction plan for eastern Damascus neighborhoods alarms residents

Reconstruction plan for eastern Damascus neighborhoods alarms residents

PARIS — Day by day, Abu Bilal is losing hope that he will ever have the chance to rebuild his home in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, amid a “lack of transparency” from the Syrian government over reconstruction and compensation for residents of razed communities like his. While Abu Bilal and others like him wait for government decisions to compensate them for at least part of their losses, local authorities are offering something else: plans…