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US exploits religions to divide Syria

26 November 2020
To stoke up separatism in Syria, on 28 October 2020, the United States illegally sent a delegation - led by Nadine Maenza, head of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and Steve Berger, pastor of a Evangelical church in Nashville - into the so-called "7 km" buffer area located in the Northern province of Deir ez-Zor, controlled by Kurdish militias serviceable to the US occupier.
These individuals conferred with the joint presidency of the militias’ (...)

International conference on the return of Syrian refugees

11 November 2020
The international conference on the return of Syrian refugees kicked off in Damascus on 11 November 2020. It was opened by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speaking by video conference.
After thanking his Russian, Iranian and Chinese allies, he highlighted the artificial nature of the problem: never in its history has Syria experienced collective emigration driven by political reasons. Citizens who left the country did not flee from the authorities, but did so in order to shield their (...)

Damascus Conference on Syrians abroad

11 November 2020
Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad held a videoconference, on 9 November 2020, to announce the forthcoming Damascus conference on the return of Syrians from abroad.
More than 150 Russian figures will travel from Moscow specially to participate.
Russia invited all relevant states to take part in the conference. However, the European Union and the United Nations responded negatively.
The European Union deems that the Syrian migrants did not flee the (...)

UE Declaration on the refugee conference in Damascus

Brussels (Belgium) | 10 November 2020
A number of EU member states’ foreign ministers and the High Representative have received an invitation to a conference on the theme of refugee returns, on 11-12 November, in Damascus.
The EU and its member states will not attend this conference.
The European Union is of the view that the priority at present is real action to create conditions for safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of refugees and internally displaced persons to their areas of origin, in line with (...)

Statement by the Small Group on Syria

22 October 2020
We, the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and the United States continue to strongly support a political resolution of the Syrian crisis on the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
We support the efforts of United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen to move forward with the political process. A political solution as set out in UNSCR 2254 is the only way to bring a sustainable peace, stability, and security to the (...)

Russia resumes fighting in Idlib (Syria)

22 October 2020
Russian air force has restarted its shelling of jihadist groups in Syria, which was interrupted under the Turkish-Russian agreements intended to freeze operations in the Idlib region.
On 21 October 2020, the shelling struck the villages of al-Magarah and al-Rami occupied by Hayat Tahrir al-Cham (Al-Qaeda) and the National Liberation Front (Turkey).
It is too soon to know whether they are isolated strikes or the initial stages of renewed fighting.
A second hypothesis could be that the (...)

Holy See condemns sanctions against Syrian civilians

20 October 2020
On 15 October 2020, the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See was invited to an audience with Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Apostolic Nuncio to Syria.
The prelate described a country ravaged by war, whose population is dying of starvation due to economic sanctions.
He insisted that such sanctions have no impact on the "regime" they are intended to destroy, but punish instead the civilian population.
Since the 13th century, the Holy See has condemned any form of siege and later (...)

Syria condemns Turkey’s role in the world

7 October 2020
Syria is the first state in the world to condemn Turkey’s international role.
In a television interview on 6 October 2020, President Bashar al-Assad, after recalling Ankara’s support and dealings with Daesh, accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of having organized the attack on Artsakh (Karabakh) in order to divert public attention at home away from mounting internal problems.
At the same time, Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bajar Ja’afari addressed a letter to the Security (...)

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 (...)