Brian Mast addressed Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa directly, underscoring that while the United States has opened channels of communication, it has not extended endorsement.
Maliki nonetheless outlined a key condition for any normalization: firm assurances that Syrian territory will not be used as a “headquarters or passage for terrorists” seeking to destabilize Iraq.
The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), the all-female militia within the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have declared they will maintain their armed presence despite the recent integration agreement between the Syrian government and the SDF.
The American shift coincided with a rapid Syrian military advance east of Aleppo beginning on 6 January
With the SDF file nearing resolution, attention is shifting southward to Suweida province, Ultra Syria writes.
Informed sources told Al-Modon that senior officials in the U.S. administration have warned the Israeli government against providing any form of support to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), amid rapidly shifting political and security dynamics in Syria—particularly in the country’s north and east.
According to previous Syria TV reports, Syria currently operates 54 diplomatic and consular missions abroad across various continents.
The U.S. President stressed that Syria’s economic stability forms an essential pillar of stability across the Middle East.
Syria must entrench eight essential pillars to attract domestic and foreign investment, according to Osama Al-Qadi in Al-Thawra.
Repeated statements by U.S. officials emphasized support for the new Syrian authority and for a unified Syrian state, Faisal Alloush argues in Ultra Syria.
Jeffrey made these remarks in an interview with Voice of America, rejecting characterizations of the partial U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria as a “betrayal of the Kurds.”
Barrack is in no hurry regarding politics. His obsessions are purely security-driven, Mohammad Al-Salloum argues.
The SDF experience stands as a vivid lesson: external power leveraged at the expense of national and social equilibrium is a doomed path, Diaa Kaddour argues in Al-Thawra.
Washington’s efforts “have been appreciated from the beginning,” the director of the American Affairs Department at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Syria TV.
“The Israeli position is clear and non-negotiable. There will be no withdrawal from Mount Hermon”, an israeli official said.
KRI Prime Minister Masrour Barzani expressed “deep concern” over the assault on Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo, Utra Syria writes.
This latest round in Paris marks a shift from total deadlock to procedural engagement, Syria TV writes.
Axios also reported that Israel has proposed establishing buffer security zones south-west of Damascus and imposing a no-fly zone on Syrian aircraft near the border, in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from most territory it recently entered.
While courting external support is crucial to ending Syria’s isolation, this strategy has come at the expense of domestic affairs, Malek Wannous writes in Al-Modon.
The Ministry of Interior is escalating targeted campaigns to neutralize these resurgent cells, which have claimed lives among Syrian army, General Security, and Customs Police forces.
