Jordan speaks to the Syrian army after Damascus erupts in celebration
Hello, we are reviving the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
Today, of Jordan They will receive ambassadors from the US, the EU, and Turkey and the Arab countries to discuss the progress of the Syrian situation, 24 hours after the nation’s pale people celebrated the aid of President Bashar al-Assad.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will be among the delegates to discuss of Syria Aqaba in the city of Jordan.
The Syrians called the day “Victory Friday” as a parade lit up the sky over Damascus. Assad had ruled with an iron fist for 50 years, when his dictatorship ended after rebels captured the city, bringing 14 years of war that claimed over 50,000 lives and displaced millions.
The Qatari diplomat said the embassy from the Gulf Emirate will visit Syria on Sunday to meet with officials of the transitional government and about the support and refreshment of their embassy.
Qatar, unlike other Arab states, never restored diplomatic ties with Assad after the rupture in 2011.
We will bring you updates from the talks in Jordan, and all the latest developments around the Middle East
Key events
Mohamad Bazzi
As the fall of Syrian Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime celebrated on Sunday, three foreign powers – Israel, Turkey and the US – iron from the Airstrikes throughout the country. All three planned the bombings in an effort to protect their interests after a lightning strike by rebel fighters prompted the sudden ouster of Assad – and the withdrawal of two of his main foreign protectors, Russia and Iran.
Within hours of Assad fleeing Moscow, thousands of political prisoners were freed from them Baathist regime prisons and tor- centers. Syria has destroyed statues and pictures of Assad and his father Hafez, who seized power in 1970 and turned Syria into a police state. All told, father and son reigned over Syria for 53 years. But millions of Syrians barely had time to absorb the fact that the Assad family’s reign finally ended before it became clear that other actors would be out of the game to shape Syria’s era.
The head of Iran’s atomic energy, Mohammad Eslami, says that he will not prevent the access of the nuclear watchdog and the inspection of its site.
“We did not create and did not create any obstacles to the inspections and access of the agency,” Eslami says, as reported by the Times Israel.
“We work in the middle of the guard, the work is also done according to the regulations, no more, no less,” he adds.
Jim Powell
The fall of Assad in Syria, the protests in Georgia, the Franklin Fire in Malibu and the destruction of Notre Dame de Paris: seven days ago, captured by leading photojournalists of the world…
In meetings with the Authority of Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbott, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said “we must respect the will of the Syrian people, and we wish them all the best,” according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
“We look forward to relations between the two nations based on mutual respect and the interests of the two peoples.”
The UN special envoy urged foreign forces to work to prevent the collapse of vital Syrian institutions on Saturday.
Geir Pedersen, the UN’s special envoy for Syria, backed a “credible and inclusive” political process to form Syria’s next government when he met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
“We need to ensure that state institutions do not collapse and that we get humanitarian aid as quickly as possible,” said Pedersen.
“If we can achieve that, maybe it’s a new opportunity for the Syrian people.”
Blinken said the United Nations plays a critical role in providing humanitarian aid and protecting minorities in Syria.
The Israeli Air Force has carried out drone strikes against several primary rocket launchers in the south Lebanon This morning, the Times of Israel reported.
The IDF is asking for a demonstration in Lebanon Israelviolating the ceasefire agreement between the two nations.
No political regression for Assad: experts say the ousted Syrian leader will spend the rest of his days comfortably somewhere in Russia.
“Bashar and his family are professedly secular, although they repeatedly recognize the Alawite sect, so Russia will always have more appeal than Iran in that sense,” said David Lesch, a Syria expert at Trinity University in Texas who has met with Assad on multiple occasions. on occasions.
“In Assad’s mind, Russia and Vladimir Putin can better bring his family to justice by extradition or by other initiatives of the international community,” Lesch added.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Syrian Civil Defense, who is also known as the White Helmets Raed al-Saleh, addressed the families of the victims and survivors of the former Syrian regime in front of the Palace of Justice in Damascus.
In a video posted on 10, Al-Saleh promised to hold Assad accountable for his “violations”.
“Today I promise you in front of the Palace of Justice, not by anyone else, to work with all the laws established, so that after all these violations, the head of government will be returned,” he said.
Bethan McKernan
Tens of thousands of Syrians took to the streets across Syria to celebrate their new freedoms, five days after a 54-year war with rebels. Bashar al-Assad government
In the Umayyad Mosque in the heart of the old city of Damascus, one of the holiest sites of the Islamic religion in the world, thousands of people gathered for the first Friday prayers since Assad fled the country on Sunday, which was called the country’s “liberation”. day.”…
William Christou
One month ago, in a meeting in Beirut, a senior Western diplomat expressed his frustration: when the international sanctions will be lifted by the president of Syria; Bashar al-Assad? Although the dictator had few friends, the brutal killings and torture of hundreds of thousands of protesters in Syria’s last 13 years seemed to have succeeded in suppressing new developments.
It was time to confront him, the diplomat said. Assad has won the war and the world needs to move.
When the ambassadors of Beirut spoke, the rebels were plotting in Syria. A year earlier, he figures in an Islamist opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in northwestern Syria had sent a message to the rebels in the south: get ready…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Israel’s latest strikes targeted military sites in Damascus and its countryside.
On Friday, Israeli air strikes targeted a “missile base at the top of Qasyun mountain in Damascus”, the war monitoring group said, and an airport in the southern province of Sweden and “defense and research labs in Masyaf”, in the province of Hama.
“Israel” destroyed military facilities in Barzeh, north of Damascus, a “military airport” in the capital region, he said.
The group added that it also targeted “Scud ballistic missile warehouses” and launchers in the Qalamun area, as well as “rockets, carriers and tunnels under the mountain”.
Since the defeat of Assad, Israel has repeatedly attacked Syrian military sites.
Jordan speaks to the Syrian army after Damascus erupts in celebration
Hello, we are reviving the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
Today, of Jordan They will receive ambassadors from the US, the EU, and Turkey and the Arab countries to discuss the progress of the Syrian situation, 24 hours after the nation’s pale people celebrated the aid of President Bashar al-Assad.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will be among the delegates to discuss of Syria Aqaba in the city of Jordan.
The Syrians called the day “Victory Friday” as a parade lit up the sky over Damascus. Assad had ruled with an iron fist for 50 years, when his dictatorship ended after rebels captured the city, bringing 14 years of war that claimed over 50,000 lives and displaced millions.
The Qatari diplomat said the embassy from the Gulf Emirate will visit Syria on Sunday to meet with officials of the transitional government and about the support and refreshment of their embassy.
Qatar, unlike other Arab states, never restored diplomatic ties with Assad after the rupture in 2011.
We will bring you updates from the talks in Jordan, and all the latest developments around the Middle East