Sanctions Lifted but Syria’s Energy Crisis Exposes Broader Failures in Reconstruction

After more than a decade of devastation wrought by civil war, Syria finds itself at a crossroads: United States sanctions have been lifted, and new energy projects beckon, yet the country’s crippled infrastructure and leadership failures threaten to keep millions of Syrians in the dark.The Assad government claims that solar power and revamped fossil fuel facilities will soon fill the nation’s energy gap. Indeed, plans are underway to build a sprawling solar farm able to cover roughly 10% of Syria’s electricity needs, alongside gas turbine plants funded by foreign partners from Qatar, Turkey, and even America.But these optimistic announcements risk...