– BESA CENTER JERUSALEM ISRAEL
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a meeting at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 18, 2019.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced recently in Moscow that China stands ready to participate in Syria’s reconstruction. Some see this as a confirmation of their assessment that China will assume a significant role in the reconstruction, realizing its impressive capabilities in building infrastructure. Such reports generally link the issue to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and some have gone as far as to warn that there are inherent security risks for Israel. As with other issues pertaining to China and its policies, however, many reports on this issue reflect wishful thinking, deliberate manipulation, or baseless assertions. A considered analysis of China’s interests, policy, and modus operandi points to little likelihood of significant Chinese investment and involvement in Syria in the coming years, and indicates that the danger to Israel from this possibility is highly doubtful.
Brett McGurkVerified account @brett_mcgurk Jul 12
What a surprise! On the day Turkey takes delivery of advanced Russian missiles in defiance of NATO, it renews threats to US personnel and its partner forces in NE Syria. This has always been a cynical game in Ankara. Now transparent.
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WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) Tuesday July 9th, 2019 by Al-Modon (Lebanese news website) Among a flurry of appointments, Major General Ali Mamlouk has been promoted to deputy to the president, in a move that will increase Russia’s hold on decision makers writes Al-Modon. On Monday morning, a Syrian diplomatic source told Al-Modon that a decision had been issued to officially appoint Major General Ali Mamlouk as deputy to the president of the republic. Major General Mohamed Deeb Zeitoun will be transferred in Mamlouk’s place to the head of the National Security Bureau.
Sources told Al-Modon that Zeitoun, a personal friend of Assad and the former head of the General Intelligence Directorate—as well as one of Russia’s faithful men—would take over the National Security Bureau following his friend Mamlouk, as a promotion and reward from the Russians for strengthening relations between the State Security Directorate and the Russians over the last two years. Zeitoun had put the directorate completely at Russia’s disposal.
Introduction
In recent days, Facebook pages identified with the Syrian regime have reported on personnel changes in the upper echelons of the Syrian security and intelligence apparatuses. Among those replaced were the chiefs of the general intelligence, political security, criminal security, and Air Force intelligence apparatuses. It was also reported that National Security Bureau director ‘Ali Mamlouk, who is known to be close to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, has been replaced and appointed vice president.
The Facebook reports on the personnel changes, which were cited later by the Arab press in other countries, have not been confirmed by the Syrian regime or the Syrian state press, but have also not been denied. The only exception is the reports on Mamlouk’s vice presidency, which were denied by associates of the regime.
This paper will review the reports of the personnel changes in the top Syrian security echelons, and how they were interpreted by Arab media.
· Kyle Orton Retweeted Hassan HassanVerified account @hxhassan 11 July 2019
Meaningless PR move when the SDF is holding thousands of small & ill kids in awful conditions, and I’m not talking about children relatives of ISIS. When media portrays all IDPs as “Isis families”, they contribute to the tragedy because nobody will talk about it.
Mustafa Bali @mustefabali
The Plan was signed after a last long discussion on the needs of Children Protection and providing assistance for them in the region of Self Administration for north and east Syria (NES).
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| 10 July 2019 – MESOP – The two countries have agreed to increase their troops in Syria by 10 to 15 percent as U.S. forces withdraw, according to a report in Foreign Policy. Germany has rejected a U.S. request to send ground troops to Syria.
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Harriet Allsopp (Author), Wladimir van Wilgenburg (Author)
Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys, this book sheds light on the socio-political landscape of this minority group and the various political factions vying to speak for them.
The first English-language book to capture the momentous transformations that have occurred since 2011, the authors move beyond idealized images of Rojava and the Kurdish PYD (Democratic Union Party) to provide a nuanced assessment of the Kurdish autonomous experience and the prospects for self-rule in Syria. The book draws on unparalleled field research, as well as analysis of the literature on the evolution of Kurdish politics and the Syrian war. You will understand why the PYD-led project in Syria split the Kurdish political movement and how other representative structures amongst Syria’s Kurds fared. Emerging clearly are the complex range of views about pre-existing, current and future governance structures.
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Even as the conflict in Syria enters its final stages and is becoming a political issue rather than a military one, several outstanding issues remain unresolved that prevent the war from moving beyond its military phase. As of today, there are two military issues: the Idlib province is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the area east of the Euphrates River is held by Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Unfortunately, parties with vested interests in rebuilding Syria haven’t been able to form and launch a Syrian Constitutional Committee, which would catalyze the political process in Syria. Without finding a proper compromise between all parties involved on these important issues, it is going to be almost impossible to move forward with conflict settlement.
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