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Assyrian Syriac powers looking to unify positions for future of Syria Along the lines of the inter-Kurdish talks, Syria’s Syriacs and Assyrians appear to be joining hands in holding an internal dialogue to unify their vision and national discourse in the country.
The Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary, which was destroyed in 2015 by the Islamic State, in the village of Tal Nasri, south of the town of Tal Tamr, northeastern Hasakah province, Syria, Nov. 15, 2019.
April 19, 2021
A few months ago, three Syriac Christian groups launched an inter-Syriac dialogue in a bid to unify their national Syriac and Assyrian discourse and offer a common vision for the future of Syria.
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Russian military convoy in Aleppo countryside, north Syria (Asharq Al-Awsat) Ankara - Idlib - Saeed Abdulrazek and Firas Karam
Russian forces returned to Tal Rifaat and Kashtaar bases, under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), after a sudden withdrawal on Tuesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that a military convoy of pro-Iranian militias headed near Tal Rifaat, carrying heavy and medium weapons and military and logistical equipment, as well as fighters and armored vehicles.
It entered the area to secure the towns mainly inhabited by Shiites and protect them from any possible military operation by the Turkish forces and the National Army supported by Ankara.
Since 9 October 2019, the Turkish army has been present in northeast Syria, where it controls a strip of land 150 kilometres long and 30 kilometres wide, between the towns of Tell Abyad and Ras Al-Ayn (Serekaniyé in Kurdish) (1). Turkish troops were already present further west since Turkey’s invasion of Afrin and its surroundings in January 2018. Their presence has prevented territorial continuity in this Kurdish region, known as Rojava (‘the West’ in Kurdish) or the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, which has been politically autonomous since 2013.
From there, Ankara directly threatens the practical and military alliance put in place by the (Kurdish) PYD and the two other principal groups in Rojava’s population, the Arabs and the Syrian Christians. This alliance the Syrian Democratic Forces (whose political branch is the Syrian Democratic Council) must also reckon with Bashar al-Assad’s troops, who haven’t given up on regaining control of the whole region,
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Dr. Thomas Kaplan, Chairman of Justice for Kurds, said the Kurds have widespread bipartisan support in the US and Europe. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) – Dr. Thomas Kaplan, Chairman of the non-profit Justice for Kurds, described to Kurdistan 24 in an interview the aims of his organization, as he also discussed the four-part seminar series that begins on Tuesday, which is hosted jointly with Yale University.
Seminar Series: The Kurds in the Middle East
The series, devoted to the subject of “The Kurds in the Middle East,” is an outgrowth of the activities of Justice for Kurds, which Kaplan, along with the French philosopher and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Levy, established in March 2018.