[Centraal] Crisis in Syrië en Irak #496 Het glijdt weer af

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Op dinsdag 6 mei 2025 02:45 schreef Qarrad het volgende:

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Let vooral op hoe ze met veel genoegen inslaan op de vrouwen tussen de vluchtende stappers. Over het masker dat afgaat gesproken...

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Syrian security forces monitored armed civilians who killed Alawites, accused man says

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Op donderdag 24 april 2025 17:31 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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https://www.timesofisrael(...)-with-israel-report/

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Syria confirms backchannel dialogue with Israel on security matters
Syrian president says talks aimed at ‘easing tensions’; report says they began in mid-April, centered on building confidence between Damascus and Jerusalem

The talks were first reported by Reuters, citing three people familiar with the matter, who said that they were set up after al-Sharaa’s visit to the UAE on April 13, and are focused on security and intelligence matters and confidence-building between the two states, which have no official relations.

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The new rulers have also made efforts to show they pose no threat to Israel, meeting representatives of the Jewish community in Damascus and abroad and recently detaining two senior members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group that participated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel and took several of the 251 hostages kidnapped to Gaza.

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Op donderdag 8 mei 2025 11:54 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
En Al-Sharaa bij Macron geweest.

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Op dinsdag 13 mei 2025 20:03 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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En morgen Trump.

Trump says he will ease sanctions on Syria and move to restore relations with new leader

Ik denk dat dit de juiste keuze is. Syrië kan moeilijk iets opbouwen met zulke zware sancties.

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Op woensdag 14 mei 2025 17:58 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:
Geen beelden dus van Trump en Al-Sharaa? Zie alleen foto's.

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Op woensdag 14 mei 2025 20:08 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:
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Op woensdag 14 mei 2025 20:08 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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Op donderdag 15 mei 2025 00:06 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:

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Ze hebben wel heel snel die Russen het land uitgeschopt en de havens ingepikt

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Op dinsdag 20 mei 2025 17:01 schreef Perrin het volgende:
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Op dinsdag 20 mei 2025 17:01 schreef Perrin het volgende:
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Op dinsdag 20 mei 2025 17:38 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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De bevolking niet nee.

Ik ben er inmiddels wel van van overtuigd dat Al-Sharaa geen zin heeft om Syrië om te vormen tot een salafistische staat maar ook dat dat vroeg of laat in conflict zal komen met zijn jihadistische bondgenoten.

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Syria's Circassian community held a historic demonstration in Damascus this week to mark a 19th-century genocide against the group, said to be the first public commemoration of the tragedy in the country's history.

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Celine Kasem, a Syrian Circassian activist and researcher, said the vigil in Damascus was not only a chance for the community to publicly remember the dead but also to demonstrate the new freedoms for minority groups in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.

"Before 8 December (the revolution), the Assad regime did not allow more than five people to gather, unless it was for a regime-sanctioned loyalist parade. Civil society, as we know it, did not exist," Kasem told The New Arab.

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Previously, the community in Syria had to mark the genocide in semi-secrecy due to a complete intolerance of non-state-sponsored civil society by the Assad regime, particularly those condemning their ally, Russia.

After the fall of the regime on 8 December, Syrian Kurds marked Nowruz this year publicly in Damascus and other cities for the first time in decades.

Circassian Syrians also finally managed to commemorate the Circassian Day of Mourning in public for the first time, a hugely emotional experience particularly for those, like Kasem, who were forced into exile during the Syrian revolution.

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Exclusive: US gives nod to Syria to bring foreign jihadist ex-rebels into army

DAMASCUS/AMMAN, June 2 (Reuters) - The United States has given its blessing to a plan by Syria's new leadership to incorporate thousands of foreign jihadist former rebel fighters into the national army, provided that it does so transparently, President Donald Trump's envoy said.
Three Syrian defence officials said that under the plan, some 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly Uyghurs from China and neighbouring countries, would join a newly-formed unit, the 84th Syrian army division, which would also include Syrians.

Asked by Reuters in Damascus whether Washington approved the integration of foreign fighters into Syria's new military, Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who was named Trump's special envoy to Syria last month, said: "I would say there is an understanding, with transparency."
He said it was better to keep the fighters, many of whom are "very loyal" to Syria's new administration, within a state project than to exclude them.

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Op maandag 2 juni 2025 19:11 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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Op maandag 2 juni 2025 19:16 schreef Richestorags het volgende:

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Gezellig. Daar gaan we over jaren helemaal géééén lijken in de kast over ontdekken. Mijn voorspelling: Druzen, Alawieten, Koerden en Christenen gaan deze lui wel eens nader ontmoeten.

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Op maandag 2 juni 2025 19:21 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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Ik begrijp het idee erachter, maar het bewapenen en legitimeren van dit soort groepen kan ook weleens het averechtse effect hebben inderdaad. Een couppoging lijkt me ook waarschijnlijk.