Regime will seek to hold Syria's core economic assets
The Assad state's survival depends upon a rapidly fragmenting economy
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- Shrunken economy
- Lost government income
- Survival factors
- International humanitarian aid
- Iranian support
- Commodity production
- Spending cuts
- Rebel economies
- ISG-controlled areas
- Kurds
- Anti-government rebels
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_350.jpg "A man walks past damaged buildings along a street in Damascus, Syria (Reuters/Bassam Khabieh)")