Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 18 that European countries should help Syria rebuild if they want refugees to return to the country.
Reuters: Putin says Europe should leave politics out of Syria reconstruction
A picture taken during a government guided tour shows smoke rising from buildings in Yarmuk, a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus, during regime shelling targeting Islamic State (IS) group positions in the southern district of the capital on April 24, 2018. In 2015, IS overran most of Yarmuk, and the small numbers of other rebels and jihadists, including from Al-Qaeda's former affiliate, that had a presence there agreed to withdraw just a few weeks ago.
