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Syrian Democratic Forces Face New Challenges After Negotiation Setback Each piece on the Middle East chessboard has a function, yet some are always disposable. For the purpose of the game and to defend the throne, the Kurds are the ones usually ordered ...
Syrian interim president has not yet demonstrated any concrete readiness to move toward genuine national reconciliation or genuine dialogue, whether with the SDF or the Druze and Alawites Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Washington D.C. and met with U.S. President ...
The deal may pause Syria-Israel tensions, but core issues like Golan, sovereignty and trust are still missing As attention in the Middle East continues to gravitate toward unfolding crises in Gaza and the broader Arab-Israeli landscape, a less visible yet potentially ...
The West is trying to lay the groundwork for gaining leverage over the current authorities in Damascus It has been six months since the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham [ 1 ] group led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani (now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa) seized power in Syria. Shortly before that, half a world away, Donald Trump had won the U.S. presidential election, and all eyes turned to see what his foreign policy would look like. Nobody was watching more closely than Syria’s new authorities, who were well aware ...
The process of lifting sanctions will be slow, and the legal mechanisms of unilateral US sanctions against Syria may remain in force for years and decades, despite political changes The change of power in Syria raises the question of possible changes to the US sanctions regime against the country. Over the past two decades, Syria has been among the countries ...
The era of great-power dominance is fading. Moscow’s future lies in mastering regional diplomacy In 2015, when the Russian Armed Forces launched a military operation in Syria, it marked a turning point in the post-Soviet era. The collapse of the USSR had caused a dramatic decline in Russia’s international standing. For two and a half decades after 1991, Moscow worked to regain lost status, prestige, and influence on ...
... crisis. The problem is that while domestic oil demand is 3 million barrels per month, only 300,000 barrels are produced in government-controlled territories 8 . The rest of the oil is produced in the Kurdish AASIS (Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria) zone. After the USA, occupying this zone, imposed a de facto embargo on oil supplies from there for Damascus, there is a severe shortage of fuel in the areas under government control. The shortage is compensated by oil supplies from Iran and partly from Russia. New non-military ...
Damascus and Ankara sharing more and more interests The leaders of Syria and Turkey have recently made frequent public declarations of their readiness to start the process of normalizing bilateral relations soon, with Russia as a mediator. Syrian President Bashar Assad, while receiving Russian President's Special Envoy ...
... Russia’s gold exports to the Emirates in 2022 totaled 75.7 tons or $4.3 billion. Another important factor shaping the Middle East’s approach to international relations is Turkey’s foreign policy. Particularly important, is Turkey’s position on Syria prior to the presidential elections in May 2023, and the new aspects it has now acquired following the victory of incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Judging by the leadership’s recent steps, Turkey wants to maintain continuity with its ...
Syria’s return to the League of Arab States (LAS) will remain symbolic unless economic relations are restored, at least on a regional scale... In the run-up to the May summit of the League of Arab States (LAS), regional media and experts are speculating ...
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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