An under-the-radar Army missile defense mission in southern Turkey got a boost this month when a new operational headquarters that was seven years in the making finally came to fruition.
U.S. opens new NATO interceptor missile headquarters in Turkey
The top Republican and Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a statement on Monday slamming Syria’s readmission into the Arab League and urging President Biden to use sanctions to prevent further normalization.
House Hawks Urge Biden to Use Sanctions to Prevent Syria Normalization
The supreme commander of the US Army and allied forces, including the Biden’s oil thieves, Al Qaeda Levant, and its ISIS offshoot terrorists sneaked into Syria to boost the morale of his soldiers after the US-led NATO’s miserable failure in Ukraine.
ISIS Supreme Commander Visits US Army Oil Thieves in Syria
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Rep. Gaetz Introduces War Powers Resolution to Pull US Troops Out of Syria
H/T: The Jimmy Dore Show
The “humanitarian exemptions”, on Syrian sanctions, are conditional!
The U.S. Treasury announced a decision on February 9 claiming to allow an easing of sanctions imposed on Syria for the ensuing six months until August 8, as part of “earthquake relief efforts.”
Did the U.S. really lift sanctions off Syria temporarily?
The decision allows for “third parties” to transfer aid to Syria without fear of U.S. sanctions, but should only be intended for aid to earthquake-effected areas. Nonetheless, the sanctions programs applied to Syria for many years, the most severe of which are the Caesar Act (2019) and Captagon Act (2022), provide for “humanitarian exceptions,” but are conditional on U.S. approval.
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Did the U.S. lift sanctions on Syria?
So any earthquake relief effort must take place away from the Syrian state. In other words, it must contribute to undermining the sovereignty of the Syrian state, or it will not take place.
by Conor Gallagher
Russia, Iran, and India are speeding up efforts to complete a new transport corridor that would largely cut Europe, its sanctions, and any other threats out of the picture. The International North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) is a land-and sea-based 7,200-km long network comprising rail, road and water routes that are aimed at reducing costs and travel time for freight transport in a bid to boost trade between Russia, Iran, Central Asia, India.
Russia’s “Sanction-Proof” Trade Corridor to India Frustrates the Neocons
H/T: Alex Christoforou
U.S. Intelligence Meets Tribes to Halt Turkish Rapprochement With Syria
YPG was the rebrand of PKK. With some Arabs mixed in for good measure. And they were all ISIS in different costumes. So now we have a ‘restructure’ on the go!
US Trying to “Restructure” PKK/YPG in Syria
It remains to be seen how both countries will act against Kurds in coming weeks
Where the Syrian-Turkish normalisation talks are headed?
As the UAE tries to join Russia in mediating between Ankara and Damascus, the US is looking to establish a middle ground between Turkiye and the SDF in hopes of preventing normalization with Syria
US on alert as UAE seeks to join Turkish-Syrian reconciliation talks
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