U.S. Eases Sanctions On Syria As Fighting Continues

U.S. Eases Sanctions On Syria As Fighting Continues

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The United States issued on January 6 a sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria for six months in the first such move since the fall of the Assad regime a month earlier.

The exemption, known as a general license, also allows some energy transactions and personal remittances to Syria until July 7. The action did not remove any sanctions.

In a statement, the U.S. Treasury said that the move sought “to help ensure that sanctions do not impede essential services and continuity of governance functions across Syria, including the provision of electricity, energy, water, and sanitation.”

The Treasury defined Syria’s governing institutions as departments, agencies and government-run public service providers – including hospitals, schools and utilities – at the federal, regional or local level, and entities involved with the government run by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) across Syria.

It also authorizes transactions in support of the sale, supply, storage or donation of energy, including petroleum and electricity, to or within Syria.

The next day, January 7, the Financial Times reported that Germany was working to ease European Union sanctions on Syria.

Berlin circulated two documents among EU capitals with suggestions for where the bloc’s sanctions could be eased, the FT said, citing two people familiar with the matter.

According to the report, such relief would come gradually and would coincide with safeguarding minority and women’s rights, as well as upholding commitments to ensuring non-proliferation of weapons.

Also on January 7, Damascus International Airport resumed commercial international flights for the first time since the fall of the Assad regime. The airport received a Qatari Airways aircraft from Doha for the first time in over 13 years.

While Syria saw some economic progress over the past week, the timeline for the translational process is yet to be determined by HTS and the security situation is not improving.

On January 9, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in London, said that 218 people have been killed in 125 separate crimes across the country since the fall of the Assad regime. The vast majority of these crimes took place in former strongholds of the regime in the governorates of Hama, Homs, Latakia and Tartus.

The military situation in Syria also continues to deteriorate, especially in the north where the conflict between Turkey and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is heating up.

On January 8, Turkish drone strikes hit a convoy including first responders and civilian pro-SDF protests that was heading towards Tishreen Dam in the eastern Aleppo countryside, the focal point of the conflict. The strikes killed five people and left at least 14 others wounded.

On the same day, the SDF targeted a Turkish military base near the town of al-Araishah in the northern al-Hasakah countryside, killing a soldier and wounding another.

Separately, the Israeli Defense Forces continue to launch strikes against bases and equipment of the now dissolved Syrian Arab Army.

On January 8, a wave of strikes hit Khalkhalah Air Base in the northern countryside of al-Suwayda. And on January 10, another wave of strikes hit a base near the town of Kiswah in the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.

U.S. Eases Sanctions On Syria As Fighting Continues

Khalkhalah

Overall, despite some progress, it is still unclear if Syria will stabilize. Many internal and external factors could throw the country back at war.


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NewTypeESP!

so sanctions are lifted for a terrorist head chopper leader,smh 🤦

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Jewsrunbothsides

yes because he is their headchopper shabbosgoy jew in disguise leader. he is doing the dirty work for them just like the jew zelensky. he is destroying all churches christians alawites and all syrian inteligencia imposing a strict jihadist sharia system upon the syrians to keep them down and weak and poor so israel and turkey can steal the land the oil and the spoils and the syrian people will suffer and be brought back to the middle ages in terms of living standards and human rights.

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Annon

you vill all own nothing and be happy .pharoah says

Annon

because the vatican legally owns everything the pope by papal bull divided the known world in two halves and gave half to the spanish royal family and the other half to portugal’s. nothing over rules a papal.bull .except another. wake up .stop reading bs fron over institutionalised educated idiots .

Ace

no one pays any attention to papal bulls. certainly not from the present oddball.

Jewsrunbothsides

the pope and the catholic church are just one aspect of the entire world that is subverted by the jews. the pope wears a jewish yarmukle the saudi elite are all crypto jews and wahabbism is a way for the jews to control terrorism in the middle east islam is a means to an end for them. its time we wake up and stop serving the jews and liberate our selves from their narratives poison and subversion. they are the demons and the serpent seed the bible spoke about.

Brozak

vigano for pope, no more phaggots in the vatipati

Jewsrunbothsides

the pope also serves the jews just look at him wearing his jewish yarmukle. the jews have subverted everything and almost everyone to do their bidding. saint paul was a jew who subverted christianity to serve the jews and islam was pretty much a tool for the jews to destroy both the persian and eastern roman empire and replace it with a more subvervient islamist one. today the turks do the jews their dirty work in committing geno against the armenians greeks and europeans.

Jewsrunbothsides

in its basis christianity was a revolutionairy movement against the jews. jesus was according to the most prominent rabbis a mamzer a illigitimate jew who revolted against them and tried to change the religion to love your neighbor instead of all the juu subversion and usery and for this the jews chrusified him. he was put on trial by the jewish sanhedrin and chrusified and the talmud goes out of its way to dehuminize jesus.

Jewsrunbothsides

claiming hes boiling in human feces in hell forever for his opposition against the jewish leadership of the time. they dehuminize him the same way as they dehuminize hitler. hitler was right you know when he woke people up to the usery and exploitation of the german people by the jews.

Brozak

ummm hitler was rothschild’s illegitimate son… hitler organized and moved most of the zionist gangsters and their ideologically captured jewish diaspora out of germany and into palestine in the first place, according to the decision of the zionist conference in ‘not so neutral’ switzerland. just saying. even putin would haz my back this fact.

Annon

he is working with thd english cardinal in the vatican as scott ritter showed you in his documentary. allegedly

Attila

great leader liberate their own country they are not terrorists.dumbo

Furkan

just wait to 2025 summer 🤣🤣

Furkan

new sharia legislation will begin this summer i’m sure
chaos ensues and the girls cannot go swimming in the summer

Brozak

well surprise surprise… the second coming of zelensky has healed syria of its sanctions curse…. image that…. man…what a wahhabist miracle worker…

Imho

goes to show that israel and america have won again.

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Jewsrunbothsides

and putin made it possible he sold assad and the syrian army out. hes a shabbos goy juu helper.

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Annon

you re so self destructive and you haven’t a clue have you ?

Annon

israel is king charles dominions you ignoramus and america is under the moral authority for rule of law of the pope .facts .

amerikuntis inferioritus

inferior amerikunt imho lose must lick jew boot

Imho

the guy pictured is a sorry zionist piece of shit.

Annon

you are with your frauds imo .satan tbe deceiver and you sorry pos you wouldn’t even know a zionist from a pigs arse imo allegedly.

DrunkenDimitri

🇷🇺=🏃‍♂️🤡 😆😆😆

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R. Ambrose Raven

syria is not going to be allowed to stabilise. removal of a buffer state has allowed two violent and expansionist nations (one historically plus propped up by its american client, the other under the current leader) to collide. expect the same result as between the british, german and french empires in 1914, at least until the americans successfully overthrow erdogan. so syria is going to be looted and divided.zionism will loot its best land, imperialism will loot its oil.

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Annon

queen victoria’s genealogists told ger she was descended from.king david .like jesus. the bible says a direct descendant of david will be king of israel charles is . but his heir is george and who owns thd original orb of edward .use your brains.

Niccolo Machiavelli

well according to that book with the holes in it, we are all descended from adam, so i guess she was….. looking at this another way diana was a spencer (jewish) and catherine is also jewish (shand-kidd).

Annon

pope francis is godfather of prince george .wake up a anglican can’t have a catholic god father. diana’s mum.was always catholic really imo .diana was buried in the catholic cathedral .join the dots

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Annon

francis gave granny a replica of the orb of edward the catholic king of england whose crown is still the cotonation crown .the orb grants the owner the power to seize all jews and their stuff and own them outright .. simple .allegedly imo .

Vanya

lucky, lucky, now they can worship the jews properly.

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Annon

so many names so transparently trolling for the one world government.

Shlomo's little weenie

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Annon

you’re really unaware of reality or totally disingenuously dishonest .

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Annon

you dont even know who the jews are .you either don’t know ,or think no one else knows or are just straight out dishonest imo .

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Annon

as usual nothing is what it seems .and as usual the ignoramii persist in pretending everything is just what it seems. tedium ad nauseum

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Shlomo's little weenie

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Ace

now that the real terrorists are in power it is necessary for the us to shed tears of joy and kiss their hands.

now you can learn how to fight terrorists. give them weapons and training and then rejoice when they win.

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amerikuntis inferioritus

we are desperate for friends—civilized peoples despise us but head choppers like us

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