While sanctions still cripple a shattered Syria, one Jewish leader returns from exile Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1233779197/1267041012" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> During the Assad regimes, Western nations placed crippling economic sanctions on the country. Some have been lifted, but most are still in place, so how does a country shattered by civil war rebuild?