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A war of crossings between the regime and the SDF: Who loses?  April 7, 2021 Dozens of Syrians walk through the al-Salihiyah crossing that links the Assad regime and Autonomous Administration areas in the eastern Deir e-Zor province, 3/31/2021 (Syria Direct) AMMAN — On March 23, the Syrian regime closed four of the five crossings with the Kurdish-dominated Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (AANES)-administered areas. However, trade between the two sides had effectively stoppe...

Wednesday, 7 April, 2021 - 11:30 (Photo: Reuters) Washington- Elie Youssef The US Treasury Department issued on Monday a statement clarifying the implementation of the secondary sanctions pursuant to the Caesar Act on non-US persons. It affirmed that the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 does not hinder the humanitarian aid delivery to Syrians. According to the statement, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)...

April 1—The dire situation in Syria is becoming one of the critical junctures in the intensifying battle between the genocidal policies of the British Empire and a new paradigm based on peace through development. After ten years of warfare in Syria, instigated and orchestrated by the Obama Administration with the intention of bombing it into oblivion, arming terrorists to destroy its social and political structure, assassinating its head of state, and looting its raw materials—i.e., precise...

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The failure of the international community  In parallel, Syria Direct in an eponymous report from January 2014.  Subsequent reports covered similar disillusions around the 2017 Astana process, formalizing dialogue on Syria between Russia, Turkey and Iran and sidelining Western powers, and the 2018 Sochi agreement between Russia and Turkey halting the regime’s imminent offensive on Idlib province.  Syria Direct reported on the already blatant shortcomings of humanitarian assistance in Syri...

Sunday, 4 April, 2021 - 06:45 Internally displaced children ride in a pickup truck with their belongings in Afrin, northern Syria, Feb. 18, 2020. (Reuters) London – Ibrahim Hamidi Syria is currently divided into three “zones of influence” and “four governments”. Five armies and thousands of soldiers are deployed on its territories and hundreds of military bases have been set up there. One zone is home to the capital and ...

Photo Credit: Tasmin News / CC4.0 An Iranian oil tanker identified as the Ndros, in Venezuela, in Dec. 2020. Except the Ndros was scrapped in 2018, and this may be the Calliop disguised under that name. (JNS) Recent reports suggest that the United States is disturbed by aspects of the Israeli-Iranian shadow war that is raging across the region—in this case, at sea. It seems reasonable to conclude that Washington is trying to lower tensions that it fears can spoil attempts to negotiate a n...

New Eastern Outlook of the Russian Academy of Science, founded in 1816 The US is engaged in a war in Syria, no secret to anyone there, it has been going on for a long time. Unlike other US wars, started after 9/11 ostensibly to root out those chosen to be blamed for 9/11, the US is in Syria to save the Syrian people from being subjugated by ISIS. But the US never leaves and as ISIS seems to disappear, the US keeps bringing more and more troops in, seizing more and more territory and only has on...

United Nations, March 16 India has told the UN Security Council that the humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for relaxation of sanctions imposed on Syria, saying the inte

Washington attempts to quell Israel’s shadow war with Iran at sea Washington attempts to quell Israel’s shadow war with Iran at sea Israel’s alleged ongoing disruptions of Iranian oil-smuggling to Syria, which enabled a terror financing channel to Hezbollah, and Tehran’s resulting retaliation may have set off alarm bells in the Biden administration ahead of new nuclear talks. (March 15, 2021 / JNS) Recent reports suggest that the United States is disturbed by aspects of the Israeli-Iran...