ALEPPO, Syria — Works started Aug. 8 on a residential complex project in the Euphrates Shield area aimed at accommodating by 2019 around 1,500 families that have been mainly displaced from eastern Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus to camps scattered on the outskirts of al-Bab city.
The construction plan was signed Aug. 6 at the headquarters of the local council in al-Bab in the presence of Mohammed Othman, president of the council and a representative of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), and representatives of eastern Ghouta traders residing in al-Bab.
