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The Imperative to Maintain Focus in Syria | Opinion Peter Metzger
, Former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs On 4/16/21 at 12:00 PM EDT
With most observers of U.S. Middle East policy focused on the new presidential administration s dubious contemplation of a return to the failed 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, they run the risk of losing focus on the imperative for continued pressure on Iran s partner to the west: the murderous Assad regime in Syria.
As various media outlets and world leaders have highlighted of late, Syria has now entered its 11th year of internal conflict, marking one of the most protracted and gruesome conflicts in history. Over half a million Syrians have been lost to the conflict, born out of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising across the region. Humanitarian suffering continues at unprecedented levels and despotic Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has demonstrated no real commitment to following through on an inter
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As the Syrian conflict completes 10 years, new diplomatic initiatives are taking shape
Talmiz Ahmad
April 09, 2021 22:46
A Kurdish Syrian woman walks with her child past the ruins of the town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, March 25, 2015. (AFP)
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The 10-year commemoration of Syria’s bloody civil conflict in March has evoked expressions of anguish and some new diplomatic initiatives.
Nearly half-a-million people have been killed and several million more displaced since the conflict started on March 15, 2011.
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, described the Syrian situation as a “living nightmare” and recalled the “atrocities” and “greatest crimes” that have been inflicted on its people. He noted that 60 percent of the population could suffer hunger this year.