Russia: Israeli air strikes in Syria could further destabilize situation
FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gestures at a news conference on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 27, 2019. Brendan McDermid
Israeli air strikes on the territory of Syria might lead to a further destablization, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a newspaper interview.
“Such actions ... further destabilize the situation and could lead to an escalation,” pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat quoted him as saying.
“Syria should not become a platform for implementing plans or settling accounts. The main task of all concerned forces must be to help restore peace to Syrian territory.”
Turkey says work on Syria "safe zone" not yielding results
Turkey does not think its efforts with the United States to form a "safe zone" in northeast Syria will yield the results it wants and is ready to take action itself, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Russia watching closely after Turkish move on Syria safety zone: Kremlin
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Moscow was watching closely after Turkey said it would act alone on its plans to form a "safe zone" in the northeast of Syria, which is a close ally of Russia.
Erdogan says Turkey has no choice but go its own way on Syria 'safe zone'
Turkey has no choice but to act alone given too little progress has been made with the United States forming a "safe zone" in northeastern Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in his most direct indication of a cross-border offensive.
Syria 'safe zone' deadline expires with Turkish threat looming
Turkey's deadline to jointly establish a "safe zone" with the United States in northern Syria by the end of September has passed, leaving the threat of unilateral military intervention by Ankara hanging over the region.
Turkey: US delays mean we need to setup Syria safe zone alone
Armoured vehicles are seen as Turkey and the US start a joint ground patrols as part of efforts to establish safe zone east of Euphrates in Syria on 8 September 2019 [Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency]
October 2, 2019 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that Turkey has no choice but to act alone to form the new safe zone in north-eastern Syria due to delays caused by the United States (US) during their cooperation on the project, reigniting fears of a Turkish military incursion into the area east of the Euphrates river.
After a speech to parliament yesterday, Erdogan told reporters,
“We may suddenly arrive one night,” referencing a possible military operation into northern Syria to clear the Turkish-Syrian border of the US-backed Kurdish militias. “We have tried every means, with great patience, to solve this problem together with our allies.”
Prior to that statement, Erdogan announced at the parliament’s opening ceremony that “We have not achieved any of the results we desired in the east of the Euphrates. Turkey cannot lose even a single day on this issue.
There is no other choice but to act on our own.”
Erdogan’s statement comes almost two months after Turkey and the US
agreed to cooperate and set up a joint operations centre to begin building the safe zone, following months of negotiations in which Turkey repeatedly
warned that it would conduct the military operation in Syria if there was no agreement.
Syrian, Russian Coordination Committees: Washington hinders evacuation of citizens from al-Rukban Camp
Damascus, Oct. 1, 2019 - The Syrian and Russian Coordination Committees on Return of Displaced Syrians announced that
the US has hindered a plan for the evacuation of civilians from al-Rukban Camp as it didn’t implement its obligations in this regard which makes hundreds of the camp’s residents besieged in the camp under harsh circumstances which threaten the lives of many of them.
The committees said in a joint statement said on Tuesday that ” due to the fact that the US side didn’t abide by its obligation, the implementation of that stage of evacuating civilians from al-Rukban Camp was hindered as on Sunday, 336 persons arrived in Jlaighem corridor instead of two thousand citizens who wanted to leave the camp,” and to return back to their areas which had been liberated from terrorism.
The two committees called upon the US side to immediately withdraw from the Syrian territories which it occupies and to stop hindering the efforts exerted by the Syrian government for making the work of the constitutional committee successful and for eradicating terrorism from the area.
Terrorists continue to prevent civilians from exiting through Abu al-Dohour corridor
2 October، 2019 - Idleb- Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization and the affiliated groups in Idleb continue to prevent the locals from exiting to the safe areas through Abu al-Dohour corridor
for the twentieth day in a row to use them as human shields amid fears for the civilians where terrorists spread after news on eruption of fight among terrorist organizations.
QSD militias abduct a number of civilians as protests against their acts continue
Syrian Al-Jazeera -
The US-backed separatist QSD militias abducted on Tuesday a number of civilians in Syrian al-Jazeera region while the popular protests that reject the acts of QSD continued.
Civil sources said that QSD militias carried out, during the last hours, a series of storming campaigns in a number of Syrian al-Jazeera region and Aleppo northern countryside.
“They abducted a man and a woman in Manbij and two other civilians near al-Na’em roundabout in Raqqa in addition to abducting several young men in Qamishli to take them to the so-called obligatory recruitment,” the sources added.
Meanwhile, the militia expelled 10 families from their houses in Tal Abyad in Raqqa northern countryside to Ayn Issa camp.
Hundreds of Syrian Displaced Families Returned Home in Homs Countryside (+Video) - World news - Tasnim News Agency
October 3, 2019 -
Hundreds of displaced families were returned to their homes on Wednesday afternoon in the town of al-Qusair,over 30 kilometers to the southwest of Homs city during the operations to rehabilitate the houses in the town in the framework of efforts exerted by the government to facilitate the return of the displaced to their neighborhood which had been liberated from terrorism by the army.
According to reports by SANA news agency,
over 1,800 persons headed back to the town after the infrastructure and services, including electricity, water, and sanitation had been restored and repaired following the cleansing of the town from remaining terrorists.
The report indicated that nearly 2,000 persons are scheduled to return to their houses in al-Qusair town on Thursday as well.
YPG executes woman in Syria refugee camp for protesting against child separation policy
YPG and US army in Hasakeh
October 2, 2019 -
Members of the Kurdish militia named the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria have killed a female refugee for protesting against the militia’s policy of separating children from their mothers in a refugee camp in the north of the country.
According to the Turkish news site the
Anadolu Agency which cited local sources yesterday, a group of female refugees were protesting against the poor conditions at the Al-Haw camp and the YPG’s oppressive treatment after it begun separating children, aged 12 and under, from their mothers. The militant group then cracked down on the protests, killing one of the women in the process.
The camp, which is located in northern Syria, is a holding place for Syrian civilians who escaped the conflict taking place in the province of Deir ez-Zour, as well as for the families of former Daesh members and those of other groups.
The vast majority of the displaced Syrians were reportedly brought to the camp forcefully by the YPG in April 2017.
The United Nations (UN) has previously repeatedly warned that Al-Hawl camp’s conditions are worsening every day, and has demanded access to the locations, camp and centres where the families of former Daesh members are being held.
The YPG, along with other Kurdish groups operating in northern and north-east Syria, have long been perceived by Western countries in particular to be the best and safest option of militant groups to cooperate with.
Pompeo, Pope Francis urge religious freedom in Mideast, elsewhere (Peace? Religious FREEdom? More like - double trouble!)
Pope Francis and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed on Thursday on
the need to protect the rights of Christian minorities in the Middle East during a meeting at the Vatican, the U.S. State Department said.
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