Syria
Thursday 28 March 2024
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“[U.S.] behavior is inconsistent with their claims on non-expansion of the [Gaza] war in the region.”
Iran-controlled network of proxy militias conducts systematic attacks and spreads violence across the Middle East and beyond. The United States responds with security measures designed to stop violence and prevent the expansion of violence. -
"[T]here is no group affiliated with the Islamic Republic or Iran’s Armed Forces, whether in Iraq, Syria, or elsewhere that operates directly or indirectly under the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran or acts on its behalf."
Iran is financing, training and supplying advanced arms to some 40 radical Islamist militia groups from the Middle East to Horn of Africa, many of them engaged in terrorist activities. -
“Wading through rubble to get all that is left to remind her of her child. #GazaHolocaust.”
The photograph is an award-winning document of Bashar Assad regime’s destruction of the western city of Homs, the rebels’ stronghold during the Syrian civil war. -
“China ... urges relevant countries to immediately lift all illegal unilateral sanctions against Syria.”
Unilateral sanctions are not backed by a United Nations resolution but are legal according to the laws of the country that imposes them. -
“Russian athletes are listed as members of the Syrian team at the Pan-Arab Games that started in Algeria. Most of them have their names changed, two of them have their dates of birth [changed]."
Five athletes of Russian nationality are listed as Syrians at the Arab Sports Games, thereby violating international sports rules. -
The Biden administration has terminated a U.S. oil contractor’s license to operate in Syria and says U.S. troops are there only to fight the Islamic State.
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A Wagner defector tells a story of deception and violence. The mercenary group is notorious for executing recruits.
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“…the report lacks scientific and objective evidence, and no sane person or specialist can reach such misleading conclusions.”
Despite years of denials and distortions from Syria and its ally, Russia, the chemical weapons watchdog offers overwhelming evidence Syrian government forces carried out the attack. -
“IRGC is the biggest and most successful anti-terrorist entity.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has a record of sponsoring terrorism abroad and brutal repression at home. -
“Despite the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is the only country in the world that still has not completed getting rid of them.”
Moscow knows the U.S. is nearly finished destroying its chemical weapons. It’s Russia and ally Syria who’ve kept stocks and used them. -
“The contested publications contain false information that the plaintiff [Yevgeny Prigozhin] is affiliated with the Wagner Group, finances it, and that the Wagner Group belongs to him.”
Prigozhin has now confirmed control of the private military outfit known as Wagner. -
“[America’s] frequent military interventions in Syria have caused great civilian casualties and inestimable economic loss, and displaced more than 12 million people.”
Russian and Syrian government forces’ brutality against civilians has been the overwhelming driver of colossal humanitarian harm in Syria.