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The Economic War Against Syria
by Roberta Rivolta, published on Counter-Hegemonic Studies, December 4, 2024 As ancient as economic wars may be, the use of embargoes as means of coercion experienced a significant acceleration only at the end of the Cold War. While the collapse of the USSR reduced the risk that a targeted nation …
Read More »Czech Diplomat: Western Sanctions on Syria Cause Suffering of its People, Must be Lifted
published in English on the Syrian Observer, June 21, 2024, Source: AL-THAWRA (Pro-government newspaper) Former Czech Ambassador to Syria, Eva Filippi, emphasized that the Western sanctions imposed on Syria, affecting entire sectors, are causing significant suffering to the Syrian people and should be lifted. In an interview with Czech radio …
Read More »Caught Between Sanctions and Politics: The Plight of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
by Bilal Nour al-Deen, published in The Cradle, May 16, 2024 A little over a year has passed since Syria’s readmission into the Arab League and the normalization of its relations with regional states. Yet, Syria and its refugees continue to face significant challenges. Among them, the implementation of the Caesar …
Read More »The Looming Collapse: Syrian Economy on the Brink
Source: SYRIA TV (Opposition website), July 21, 2023 The Syrian pound has surpassed the critical threshold of ten thousand against the US dollar, signalling an imminent and potentially more severe collapse in the days to come. According to the recently released 2023 World Bank report, the real GDP of Syria …
Read More »China-Syria Strategic Partnership Faces the US Imposed Stalemate
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, September 27, 2023 On September 22, during a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that China would help Syria to rebuild its ruined economy by upgrading ties to a “strategic partnership“, which means close coordination on …
Read More »The Criminal War on SYRIA Continues
Statement by Syria Support Movement, September 11, 2023 PDF available here. The war on Syria is no longer front page news, but it has never ended. Currently, the United States and its allies are placing enormous pressure on the Syrian people in an effort to topple the Syrian government. The …
Read More »I Crashed an Anti-Syria Lobby Meeting Where They Pushed for a New Caliphate and More Starvation Sanctions
by Hekmat Aboukhater, published on The Grayzone, August 21, 2023 I crashed the meeting of a lobbying front that ended the life-saving General License 2023 on Syria, and is now pushing to extend Washington’s economic war for another 8 years. Behind closed doors, the former State Department official leading the …
Read More »Syria’s President Assad would ‘welcome home refugees’
Another Take on President Assad’s Sky News Interview Editor’s note: The perspective here is not friendly to Assad, but his words speak for themselves. by Niamh Lynch, published on Sky News , August 9, 2023 Brief Video out-take from the interview: https://news.sky.com/story/syrias-president-assad-would-welcome-home-refugees-12936973 Syrian President Bashar al Assad has said he …
Read More »No More Astana Peace Talks for Syria
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, June 25, 2023 The Astana peace talks for Syria began in 2017 and recently met in Kazakhstan on June 20-21. It surprised many when the Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Kanat Tumysh called the process over while saying the goals were achieved and declared …
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