People walk at the annual Damascus International Fair, Syria September 6, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's government is showcasing its ambitions for economic recovery and engagement with foreign business at a trade fair, but glimpses of devastated districts nearby show how far off full-scale reconstruction remains.
While companies from Syria's allies Russia and Iran are present in numbers, others are sparse, deterred by Western sanctions and continued ostracism of Syria as it prepares to attack the last rebel bastion in a seven-year-old civil war.
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