Al Arabiya TV, citing an Iraqi security source, reported on Thursday that U.S. forces have begun withdrawing from the Al-Shaddadi base in Syria’s Al-Hasakah Governorate, heading toward Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Barrot’s visit comes on the heels of a January 31 phone call between Syrian Transitional President Ahmad al-Sharaa and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Syria needs an independent national sociological authority dedicated to producing knowledge about Syrian society, Basem Mahmoud argues in Al-Jumhuriya.net.
