Press conference is held by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent on the #Earthquake Response to the affected families

"Eng. Khaled Hboubati, President of the #SyrianArabRedCrescent, #appeal for the lifting of the economic embargo on #Syria to avert its catastrophic consequences"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgaStvW5GI

🇹🇷🇺🇸🇸🇾 The U.S. State Department has issued warnings and threats to Erdogan if he follows through on his plan to have a neighborly relationship with Syria.

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#Turkey #Syria #UnitedStates

@strategic_culture

Full thread: According to sources Samantha Power is exploiting #Syria earthquake tragedy to promote #WhiteHelmets & restore credibility of brand - a group affiliated with #AlQaeda, accused of multiple crimes by #Syrian people including organ trafficking (failed cover up by BBC Mayday Series)
This is because the #WhiteHelmets failed to achieve rebranding in #Ukraine. #OPCW IIT report failed to cover up WH role in staging events #Douma 2018 that led to accusations of "chemical weapon" use by #Syria - discredited by dissident inspectors & BBC producer Riam Dalati.
#WhiteHelmets are enemy of Syrian people. During their occupation alongside armed groups funded/armed by FUKUS/Israel/Saudis/Qatar/Turkey & dominated by #AlQaeda- Syrian civilians were tortured, executed, crucified, incarcerated, murdered, exploited & abused.
If #WhiteHelmets were genuinely neutral why don't they send bulldozers & other modern equipment [they have been receiving from West since 2013] to areas under government protection in #Syria? 80% of Syrian population. Meanwhile we see a tsunami of WH promo videos & images.
These photo shoots are made on top of the rubble under which Syrian civilians are very probably still trapped. You will not see the REAL Syria Civil Defence pausing for a photo opportunity.
#WhiteHelmets alongside #AlQaeda & Turkish-backed armed groups will receive "humanitarian aid" (Power is calling for opening of more border crossings) & probability is this aid will not be received by Syrian people in #Idlib - unless they pay a high price for it to armed groups.
There is a whole other #Syria beyond #Idlib borders but Power and #WhiteHelmets will disappear #Syrian people who have remained loyal to the country since 2011. WH have no right to declare a "state of emergency" in #Syria.

Widespread pager explosions across #Lebanon & in #Syria yesterday are shocking and their impact on civilians unacceptable.

@volker_turk urges against further widening of current conflicts & calls for those responsible for such an attack to be held to account.

Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on explosions across Lebanon and in Syria
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2024/09/comment-un-high-commissioner-human-rights-volker-turk-explosions-across-lebanon

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Tucker Carlson (Moscow, December 6, 2024)

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Key talking points

#RussiaUS

• We would like to have normal relations with all countries especially with the United States. We don't see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot cooperate for the sake of the universe.

• The Ukrainians would not be able to do what they're doing with long-range modern weapons without direct participation of the American servicemen. We don't want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia as it were, we are sending signals. <...>

[The US and its allies] must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call strategic defeat of Russia. They fight for keeping the hegemony over the world on any country, any region, any continent. We fight for our legitimate security interests.

• We don't want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia, we are sending signals. We hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapon system called #Oreshnik was taken seriously.

• When the United States and other Western countries recognized unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, they said this is the self-determination being implemented. There was no referendum in Kosovo — unilateral declaration of independence. <...> And when a few years later, Crimeans were holding referendum with invitation of many international observers, not from international organizations, but from parliamentarians in Europe, in Asia, in post-Soviet space, they said that they cannot accept this because this is violation of territorial integrity 🤷‍♂️

The UN Charter is not a menu. You have to respect it in all its entirety 👉 #UNCharterIsOurRules

• I think [Donald Trump] is a very strong person. A person who wants results. Who doesn't like procrastination on anything. But this does not mean that he's pro-Russian as some people try to present him. The amount of sanctions we received under the Trump administration was very big.

#Ukraine

• We strongly prefer peaceful solution through negotiations on the basis of respecting legitimate security interest of Russia, and on the basis of respecting the people who live in Ukraine, who still live in Ukraine being Russians. <...>

No military bases, no military exercises on the Ukrainian soil with participation of foreign troops. <...> We cannot tolerate a deal which would keep the legislation which are prohibiting Russian language, Russian media, Russian culture, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, because it is a violation of the obligations of Ukraine under the UN Charter.

• We are not talking about exterminating anybody's population. We don't have any intention to exterminate Ukrainian people. They are brothers and sisters to the Russian people.

• It is becoming clear that there is a fatigue in some capitals, and there are talks every now and then that the Americans would like to leave [Ukraine] with the Europeans and to concentrate on something more important.

#Syria

• The Americans in the east of Syria groom some Kurdish separatists using the profits from oil and grain sold, the resources which they occupy. <...> The information [on who's backing Islamist groups] which is being floated and it's in the public domain mentions among others the Americans, the Brits. Some people say that Israel is interested in making this situation aggravate. So that Gaza is not under very close scrutiny.

Syria is a mosaic - Sunnis, Shias, Alawites, Christians, Aramaic speakers — held together under Assad's flawed but pluralist regime. The alternative? Salafist extremists backed by foreign powers, erasing heritage and diversity. #Syria
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1865335767729385850

Yesterday CNN call HTS 'moderate' Today: Churches smashed, women veiled by force, Christmas erased. HTS, an Al-Qaeda offshoot, is no moderate force. Coordinated media lies show the chilling power of Western security services to control the narrative. #Syria
https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1865336512402883049

'Before the war, there were 2.5 million indigenous #Christians living peacefully in #Syria or 10% of the population. Since the US & its allies began funding and arming terrorists in Syria in 2011, the indigenous Christian population has fallen to less than 500,000 or 2% of the population. With hundreds of thousands of Christians massacred by terrorists or forced to flee the country.

God help the Apostolic Christians of Syria, the legacy of St. Peter and St Paul! 🙏🏼✝️ '

https://x.com/iraqschristians/status/1865218800720724078

▶️ Footage reportedly shows the Central Bank in Damascus is being looted.

@PressTV - #Syria

Made it out of Syria for the time being. Chaos rules, looting, thuggery and thieving. Gets the US Israel stamp of approval because this is what they believe in. Going through the border was a mash of gunfire, infighting and looting from every single shop and market. Terrorists on motorcycles, gunslingers and criminals. An incredibly sad experience. The house was surrounded by "rebels" drunk in "victory" from 5am, constant celebratory gunfire and around 10 they tried to beat the external door down to loot the contents of the house. Early morning Israel was destroying #Syria Air Defence with bunker buster bombs. The whole house shook. The CIA road map is always the same. The Resistance is broken and I doubt it can be repaired but the extremist mercenaries in the pay of Israel will tell you they "support Palestine". Go on then, you are on the border now.

Tel Aviv in ‘direct contact’ with militants in Syria: Israeli media

🔹The Israeli media have revealed that the regime is in “direct contact” with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) armed group in Syria, which spearheaded an insurgency that led to the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Damascus.

@PressTV - #Syria

Made it out of Syria for the time being. Chaos rules, looting, thuggery and thieving. Gets the US Israel stamp of approval because this is what they believe in. Going through the border was a mash of gunfire, infighting and looting from every single shop and market. Terrorists on motorcycles, gunslingers and criminals. An incredibly sad experience. The house was surrounded by "rebels" drunk in "victory" from 5am, constant celebratory gunfire and around 10 they tried to beat the external door down to loot the contents of the house. Early morning Israel was destroying #Syria Air Defence with bunker buster bombs. The whole house shook. The CIA road map is always the same. The Resistance is broken and I doubt it can be repaired but the extremist mercenaries in the pay of Israel will tell you they "support Palestine". Go on then, you are on the border now.

#Damascus #Syria Radical Turkistan Islamic party enters Damascus.

Dec 7, 2024

"What happened in #Syria in the last few days has left many in shock, how could the Syrian army cede so much territory within a matter of days? As the fog of war settles the picture becomes clearer.

🔻The first step in understanding this is to note that the Syrian army were ordered to retreat from Aleppo/Hama. The soldiers didn't run and there was no mutiny. The AlQaeda hordes didn't defeat the Army, because they didn't fight them in the first place. They simply ceded the ground. To understand why such a gut wrenching decision had to be made we must have to look at the wider chessboard."

A thread:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1865305305737007418.html