Syria Today – New Earthquake Hits Turkey and Syria, Western Countries Boost Aid
THE SYRIAN OBSERVER
February 21, 2023
Your daily brief of the English-speaking press on Syria.
Your daily brief of the English-speaking press on Syria.
Once thriving neighbourhoods are now destroyed and unlivable.
While a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday, Ankara has resumed strikes on Tel Rifaat.
General Patrick Ryder said that Russia’s resort to fighters from the Assad regime in Ukraine is evidence of its international isolation, according to Syria TV.
Your daily brief of the English-speaking press on Syria.
Civil sources said that the SDF launched a campaign of raids and arrests in several neighbourhoods, according to Athr Press.
The areas controlled by the SDF are witnessing a state of lawlessness, according to Athr Press.
Reports by human rights organizations have cited cases of returning refugees being forcibly detained and tortured, according to Asharq al-Awsat.
Russia’s intransigent tactic at the UN is shaped by the belief that with enough resistance, the current cross-border aid will be switched to a crossline mechanism, according to al-Araby al-Jadeed.
Due to the crisis, women in Syria work in professions that were once exclusive to men, according to Athr Press.
Some professions have forced married women and even girls to work at night, according to Athr Press.
Wheat sent to Syria from the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea increased 17-fold this year, according to al-Araby al-Jadeed.
SDF Commander tells Asharq Al-Awsat he won’t visit Damascus before conditions for political solution are available.
Bulgaria rejected accusations that its border guards shot a Syrian refugee in October, according to Zaman al-Wasl.
The Washokani camp is a house for nearly 16.000 IDPs coming from the city of Sere Kaniye, according to North Press.
Assad said he expects the level of bilateral meetings with Turkey to increase soon, according to al-Akhbar.
The incident sparked a wave of anger among residents over the regime’s neglect of the governorate, according to Syria TV.
Romanian border police officers seized a truck containing chemicals, which was carrying 26 migrants from Syria and Turkey, according to al-Watan.
President Bashar al-Assad received Thursday the Prime Minister of Belarus, Roman Golovchenko, according to SANA.
Many observers wondered about the reality of oil supplies from Iran, according to al-Iqtissad.
