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With war in Syria now in its 12th year, London-based Syria-focused Gulfsands Petroleum is calling for a “win-win-win” humanitarian initiative that would see it and other international oil companies who declared force majeure and quit Syria in 2011 regain control of their assets. Rather than flow to the sanctioned government in Damascus, the Gulfsands initiative would see revenues from oil sales pass to a UN-controlled fund. (CONTINUED - 2916 WORDS)