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Friday, 28 May, 2021 - 08:30 US President Joe Biden (Reuters) Washington - Asharq Al-Awsat House Republicans have accused US President Joe Biden’s administration of failing to enforce sanctions on Syria as part of a bid to appease Iran. “We are concerned that your administration is failing to enforce US sanctions law on one of the worst human rights violators in the world, who has killed half a million people, as a concession...

Friday, 28 May, 2021 - 10:00 A poll worker empties a ballot box to count votes after polling stations closed during the countrys presidential elections in Damascus (Reuters) Washington - Muath Alamri The US rejects the “sham” Syrian elections and affirms it doesn’t have a new policy for Syria, noting that it remains fully supportive of UN Security Council Resolution 2254 and Caesar Act approved by US Congress. In a special b...

Although the West has waged 10 years of war on Syria, and there is much destruction, the entire country isn't in ruins and the pulse of life continues, albeit strangled by brutal Western sanctions. After Eastern Ghouta's liberation in 2018, the...

The US sanctions regimen against the Assad regime is working. Here’s how. MENASource by Peter Metzger A military police member stands past election campaign posters depicting Syrias President Bashar al-Assad, ahead of the May 26 presidential election, in Damascus, Syria May 19, 2021. Picture taken May 19, 2021. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi The refrain from foreign policy cynics and progressives on the ongoing...

Articles & Testimony Moscow would have the world believe that the best route to stability is legitimizing a dictator who plunged his country into war and destabilized the entire Middle East. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is all but guaranteed a victory in an election scheduled for May 26, a sham no serious observer considers free and fair. As this latest chapter of the Syrian decade-long tragedy continues to unfold, Russia, a chief Assad supporter, is using the election to promote its ...

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The financial prospects of reopening Nassib Border Crossing: has Syrian regime achieved any? Naseeb Border Crossing (Syrian Ministry of Information)  Enab Baladi – Jana al-Issa  On 15 October 2018, the Jordanian and Syrian authorities agreed to reopen the Jaber- Nassib border crossing after a three-year closure—it was controlled by the Syrian opposition— to restore trade relations between the two countries. The Syrian regime reopened this route for its political and economic significanc...

The United States Can’t Stop Arab Rapprochement with Syria’s Assad The United States shall struggle to stop Arab states from reengaging Assad as part of the regional security matrix. Syria clearly is not on President Joe Biden’s foreign policy priority list, he has yet to mention Syria in any official speech after his first one hundred days in office. Furthermore in the first official communique after the G7 ministerial meeting in London last week, there was no mention of the criticism th...

A Saudi customs officer opens imported pomegranates containing Captagon pills in Jeddah. Photograph: AP A Saudi customs officer opens imported pomegranates containing Captagon pills in Jeddah. Photograph: AP Manufacture of Captagon is a growth industry so big it is starting to rival GDP of flatlining economy Fri 7 May 2021 05.54 EDT Last modified on Fri 7 May 2021 09.29 EDT In the summer of 2015 a businessman in the Syrian province of Latakia was approached by a powerful security chief, seeking...

‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: AP In the summer of 2015 a businessman in the Syrian province of Latakia was approached by a powerful security chief, seeking a favour. The official wanted the merchant, an importer of medical supplies, to source large amounts of a drug called fenethylline from abroad. The regime, he said, would readily buy the lot. After an i...