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Which new weapon was used in the Gulf and in Beirut?

5 August 2020
At the beginning of July, a new weapon was deployed against 7 Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf , then again on 4 August rocking the port of Beirut.
In all eight cases, the smoke cloud bore no resemblance to that generated by a conventional explosion; what rose instead was a mushroom cloud like in an atomic explosion.
In Beirut, the blast caused the ground to shake in a radius of 200 kilometers, at a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale, according to the German Geoscience Center (...)

CIA to illegally exploit oil in Northeastern Syria

1 August 2020
At a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on 30 July 2020, Senator Lindsey Graham questioned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about a US company that has just signed an agreement with the "Autonomous Administration" of Northeast Syria (YPG) for the exploitation of oil fields and the supply of refineries.
The Secretary of State confirmed that the negotiation of the agreement had taken longer than expected and that he was OK with the deal. Production is expected to start at 60,000 (...)

Treasury Continues to Pressure Investors and Companies Supporting the Assad Regime’s Corrupt Reconstruction Efforts

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 29 July 2020
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned one individual and nine entities for enriching the Syrian regime through construction of luxury real estate. This action is the Treasury Department’s second sanctions action pursuant to the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (Caesar Act). OFAC previously designated nine targets pursuant to the Caesar Act on June 17, 2020. These targets consisted of individuals and entities who are (...)

Russia condemns Israeli bombing of Syria

2 July 2020
On 1 July 2020, the Presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey held by videoconference their quarterly appraisal of the situation in Syria.
The final press release reflects the conclusions of previous meetings .
Addressing the issue of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, all three states condemn the de facto unilateral annexation of the territory by Israel in 1981, which was recognized by the United States in 2019. Furthermore, they consider "that Israel’s military attacks against Syria are (...)

Joint Statement by Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey

1 July 2020
Video Tele-Conference (VTC)
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, H.E. Hassan Rouhani, President of the Russian Federation, H.E. Vladimir Putin, and President of the Republic of Turkey, H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, held a tripartite virtual summit on 1 July 2020.
The Presidents:
1. Discussed the current situation on the ground in Syria, reviewed the developments following their last meeting in Ankara on 16 September 2019 and reiterated their determination to enhance the trilateral (...)

Israel bombs Arab Syrian Army

24 June 2020
During the night of 23-24 June, Israel carried out air strikes against the Syrian Arab Army.
The Israeli bombers approached the occupied Syrian Golan Heights to hit Soueida and flew over Jordan to reach Deir Ez-zor, the largest city in eastern Syria.
For the past three years, Israel has only bombed Iranian-related targets inside Syrian territory, but never the Syrian Arab Army itself.
These strikes come at a time when a deep geostrategic shift in the region is underway: Iran has allied (...)

Secret US-Syria negotiations

23 June 2020
On 23 June 2020, Syrian Foreign Affairs Minister Walid Moallem gave a press conference to denounce the burning of vast areas of farmland by the United States and the jihadists and the repercussions of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.
Asked about the existence of secret negotiations between the Presidential Palace and the White House, he briefly confirmed that they had started irrespective of the above (...)

Turkey’s de facto annexation of Syria

18 June 2020
Turkey has imposed its currency, the Turkish lira, in the areas it occupies in northern Syria.
The governorate of Idleb, controlled by Al-Qaeda , became in effect an extension of Turkey mirroring the way in which the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on the island of Cyprus was taken over by Turkey in 1974 during Operation Attila.
It should be recalled that the pseudo-Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is recognized only by Turkey and that, despite the accession of Cyprus to the (...)

Reshuffling of Al-Qaeda in Syria

16 June 2020
Syrian and Russian troops have resumed their strikes against jihadist groups in Idlieb (Syria).
In response, Al Qaeda assembled under its umbrella five distinct groups known as Fathboutou ("Be firm"). They have a contingent of 30,000 fighters; receive funding and weapons from NATO; and have appointed a joint command structure, as follows:
Tanzim Hurras al-din ("Guardians of religion organization", a group publicly affiliated with al-Qaeda since April 2018)
Ansar al-Islam ("Defenders of (...)

US and EU provoke food crisis in Syria

12 June 2020
The International Coalition having abandoned all hope of destroying the Syrian Arab Republic by force, the United States and the European Union are now seeking to achieve the same result by making people hungry.
The siege of Syria has begun. Economic sanctions have been severely tightened and will be further squeezed in mid-June. Any person or entity that trades with Syria will be harshly penalized by the United States and the European Union (Caesar Law).
Such “sanctions” are illegal under (...)

US and EU trying to starve Syrians

2 June 2020
The United States is deploying the Palestinian incendiary balloon technique to set fire to fields in southern Syria before the harvest, Sham Radio reported.
On 1 June 2020, several fields in Sahwa Balata and Rasas (south of Sweida) were thus destroyed by US balloons.
After sabotaging the pipelines linking the offshore oil wells to the coast and the power plants, the United States and the European Union are attempting to starve Syria by siege. Any food has been banned from entering Syria (...)

Vladimir Putin denies any disagreement with Bashar al-Assad

27 May 2020
President Vladimir Putin has appointed Russia’s ambassador to Damascus Alexander Efimov as his special representative for the development of relations with Syria. This symbolic gesture aims, most importantly, to dispel rumors of an alleged discord between the Russian and Syrian presidents. It also provides the ambassador with an increased opportunity to be in touch with his own president.
Former Ambassador Alexander Kinshchak has been appointed director of the Middle East and North Africa (...)

The destruction of the Syrian electricity network

New York (USA) | 19 May 2020
On instructions from my Government, I wish to convey to you the following important current information relating, first, to the destruction of the cooling tower of the Zayzun power plant in the Ghab plain, in the countryside outside Hama, by the Turkistan Islamic Party terrorist group and, second, to the scale and breakdown of the losses incurred by the electricity sector in the Syrian Arab Republic:
On 7 May 2020, fighters belonging to the extremist Turkistan Islamic Party terrorist (...)

Emirates back Syria against Turkey

13 April 2020
According to Middle East Eye, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, has decided to back the liberation of the Idlib Governorate (Syria), which continues to be occupied by jihadists and the Turkish army . He has offered $ 3 billion in support of the Syrian military.
Russia used Turkey to organize the pull-back of the jihadists towards Idlib. It achieved its strategic objectives by liberating Damascus and Aleppo, then by building up its Navy base in Tartous.
The Emirates (...)

Reformed OPCW blames President al-Assad for chemical attacks

10 April 2020
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was founded in in 1997 to oversee the application of the Paris Convention. It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 while it was watching over the destruction of Syria’s chemical arsenal following Damascus’ accession to the Convention.
On 7 April 2018, the Army of Islam, the White Helmets and the French government accused Syria of having used chemical weapons in Douma (Eastern Ghouta).
On the night of 13-14 April 2018, the (...)