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Syria’s new leadership, HTS, faces a conundrum over what to do with millions of civil servants, formerly employed by the Assad regime, who now have not been paid for more than a month. HTS said it plans to reintegrate some civil servants into its administration, despite widespread hatred towards those who worked for Assad. “That’s a very difficult thing to do but it does need to happen because that’s a large mass of people right now who have no money in a country that is in a very deep economic crisis,” says FRANCE 24’s Senior Reporter James Andre, reporting from southern Syria.