From Aleppo to Damascus, the Syrian freeway of renewal | EUROtoday

CIt had been twelve years since we final ate bananas in Damascus. Neither the small, candy Anamur banana, produced in Türkiye, nor its distant cousin from Ecuador now not reached the Syrian capital. Since the beginning of the civil warfare in 2012 and the partition of the nation between the regime of Bashar al-Assad and rebel-held areas within the north, the primary industrial provide route has been interspersed with roadblocks and checkpoints. ; it was even recurrently the topic of violent battles.