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The United States, Britain, the European Union and others imposed tough sanctions on Syria after a crackdown by Assad on pro-democracy protests in 2011 spiraled into civil war.
On 18 December, it was reported that over 100 Syrian families had been forcibly expelled from the Golan Heights by the Israeli military. [57] Witnesses describe that Israeli soldiers had opened fire on them and on their homes. [57] The United Nations peacekeepers have been removing Israeli flags in the newly occupied area. [57]
Syria’s new regime, led by a group with former ties to al Qaeda, is on a mission to gain international legitimacy – and it’s already seeing some success. Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, an ...
A significant number of people who had fled the war in Syria and became refugees in neighboring nations also started trying to return home. ... U.S. and Israel carry out strikes in Syria. The ...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was "deeply concerned" about developments in Syria, according to his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric. [42] Geir Pedersen, the United Nations' special envoy to Syria, called the attack "horrific" and called on all parties to the conflict to "exercise the utmost restraint". [11]
He was an advisor and director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2018. [2] [3] Then he was an advisor to the Permanent Delegation from 2018 to 2022, where he was Deputy Head of the Syrian Permanent Delegation to the United Nations. Between 2022 and 2023, he ...
EU foreign ministers are set to discuss relaxing Syria sanctions during a meeting in Brussels on Jan. 27. European leaders began reassessing their policy toward Damascus after the ousting of ...
International reactions to the Syrian civil war ranged from support for the government to calls for the government to dissolve. The Arab League, United Nations and Western governments in 2011 quickly condemned the Syrian government's response to the protests which later evolved into the Syrian civil war as overly heavy-handed and violent.