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Modern Diplomacy Syria continues to offer the ground where Russia and the United States compete over control of oil and gas fields and the transportation routes that bring energy to consumers. Russia seeks to expand its energy footprint in Syria to build influence over rebel-controlled areas in Northeast Syria that are backed by the American military and over neighbouring Lebanon through Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The Syrian government’s decision to sign exploration and production contrac...

Assads regime is using rules on military service to threaten to seize assets of Syrians whove fled abroad

NEW YORK CITY: When the time came for Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s former UN permanent representative, to leave New York, only one person saw him off at JFK airport: his loyal office assistant. The symbolism of the moment perhaps eluded the lady as she waved goodbye to the diplomat disappearing through the throng of travelers: Nothing more than Jaafari’s lonely departure could embody the image of Bashar Assad’s regime as it stands isolated on the world stage today. Jaafari went back to Damascu...

President Joe Biden and his top foreign policy team are yet to unveil a policy on the decade-old Syrian crisis, if any. So far the State Department under Secretary Anthony Blinken has reiterated its commitment to implementing tough economic sanctions under the Caesar Act, while the Pentagon announced recently that the US military in eastern Syria will no longer be responsible

Biden cannot afford to ignore the Syrian crisis Osama Al-Sharif US soldiers guard an oil field in Deir Ezzor Governorate, Syria, March, 2019. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/nspb7 US President Joe Biden and his top foreign policy team are yet to unveil a policy on the decade-old Syrian crisis. So far, the State Department under Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated its commitment to implementing tough economic sanctions under the Caesar Act, while the Pentagon announced recentl...

Half of Syria’s population was displaced in the war but those who somehow managed to stay at home or return are dealing with a gargantuan economic crisis. Eight out of 10 Syrians live below the poverty line. The country is grappling with hyperinflation as the value of the currency has plummeted while prices of basic commodities have jumped. A large number of Syrians in the regime-held territory are unable to adequately feed their children and because there is a fuel crisis, too, they are burn...

US Sanctions Hamper Work of Humanitarian Organizations, UN in Syria - Russian Ambassador Thu 11th February 2021 | 03:03 PM Sanctions under the US Caesar Act introduced against Syria have hindered activities of the UN entities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide assistance to the countrys population, Russian Ambassador to Damascus Alexander Efimov told Sputnik, adding that the number of those states, which see negative implications of such a sanctions policy, continues to gr...

February 08, 2021 Msgr. Ignace Youssef III Younan In the Middle East, the Catholic hierarchy is asking the new tenant of the White House to lift as quickly as possible the sanctions that currently weigh on the Syrian people, at the risk of appearing to be an accomplice to the “humanitarian catastrophe” which is already affecting millions of people, and which will end up becoming a new factor of instability in the whole region. “We urge you, Mr. President, to come to the aid of the Syrians...

Wise diplomacy: How will Biden tackle US foreign policy towards Syria? Turning back the clock to past US policy in Syria - widely seen as a series of failed strategies - will not be an option for Biden team Syrians hold placards against President Bashar al-Assad during demonstration in Idlib city on 11 September 2020 (AFP/File photo) By Published date: 8 February 2021 20:44 UTC | Last update: 2 months ago As the tenth anniversary of the...

Middle East Near You Has the UN simply failed in Syria, or is it complicit in the regimes crimes? Syrian children huddle around a fire during winter season in Idlib, Syria on 30 January 2021 [Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency] February 6, 2021 at 1:13 pm As we approach the tenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, the conflict rages on with no apparent end in sight. The role of the United Nations, the international organisation created to keep the peace and promote human rights in the world, has...