Ipse related to Syria

Resul Serdar

Inserted 3 months ago

“Syria is not only a battleground of the power struggle between the regional and the global powers, but also is a ground for the intelligence wars as well. For Iran, Lebanon and particularly for Hezbollah, Syria is a crucial element in the so-called 'Axis of the Resistance', so that's why all their presence in Syria is kept secret.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist

20 Jan 2024 5 2

Zeina Khodr

Inserted 1 year ago

“For Israel, the biggest goal is to prevent Iran from creating a base on its border with Syria, the way that Iran's ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah has. Israel also wants to stop any transfers of sophisticated weapons from Iran to Hezbollah. Such attacks are often confined, but the risk of further escalation is there.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Beirut

14 Aug 2022 4 2

Michael Pregent

Inserted 2 years ago

“Al-Qurayshi's death is a significant strike against ISIL, but would likely have a limited impact on its operations in the longer term. As fas as ISIL operations, they're still alive, they're still capable of conducting cross-border operations into Iraq and also have a presence in Syria. But I think there will be degradation initially with [ISIL], much like after al-Baghdadi's death.”

Aljazeera

Senior fellow at Hudson Institute

04 Feb 2022 4 2

SANA

Inserted 2 years ago

“At around 03:21 AM, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression with several missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean... targeting the container yard in Latakia port.”

France24

Report by Syrian state news agency SANA

28 Dec 2021 6 2

Jihad Yazigi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Captagon has probably become Syria's most important source of foreign currency. That does not mean that the revenues earned are going back into the economy. They are mostly being invested in the bank accounts of smugglers and warlords.”

Nytimes

Editor of The Syria Report a publication that tracks Syria’s economy

05 Dec 2021 4 4

Joel Rayburn

Inserted 2 years ago

“The idea of going to the Syrian government to ask about cooperation is just absurd. It is literally the Syrian government that is exporting the drugs. It is not like they are looking the other way while drug cartels do their thing. They are the drug cartel.”

Nytimes

U.S. special envoy for Syria during the Trump administration

05 Dec 2021 3 4

Jamil Barakat

Inserted 2 years ago

“Produce prices change every day, and customers are in disbelief. And of course you have to take into consideration rent and transportation costs. Everything here is imported. Do we have any orchards or groves here?”

Aljazeera

Small business owner in Idlib, Syria

27 Nov 2021 3 4

Sara Kayyali

Inserted 2 years ago

“The government continues to commit human rights abuses against Syrians, and so long as this continues any talk of returns would be premature.”

Aljazeera

Human Rights Watch's Syria researcher

20 Oct 2021 2 2

Save the Children

Inserted 2 years ago

“Children's lives in Iraq and North East Syria are hanging in the balance as drought, low levels of water in key rivers, and lack of access to maintain damaged water station infrastructure have put water out of reach for millions.”

Aljazeera

Statement by Save the Children

19 Oct 2021 4 2

Filippo Grandi

Inserted 2 years ago

“These are Syrian nationals, and it's the government's responsibility to ensure their security. We are engaging with the government to highlight refugees' concerns such as their safety, property rights and livelihoods. We also need the international community to help as well, to provide much-needed resources so that people can also fix their damaged homes, have running water, health care and send their children to school. Sustainable returns require collaboration from all concerned parties. We must also ensure robust support to refugees and hosting countries.”

Unhcr

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

18 Oct 2021 4 2

Geir Pedersen

Inserted 2 years ago

“The two co-chairs now agree that we will not only prepare for constitutional reform, but we will prepare and start drafting the constitutional reform. We concluded that we were not making sufficient progress, and that we could not continue the way we have been working. Since then, close to nine months, I've been negotiating between the parties, trying to establish a consensus on how we are going to move forward.”

Aljazeera

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria

17 Oct 2021 1 3

Toby Cadman

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is not a regime with whom we should consider re-establishing diplomatic relations. The recent rapprochement by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar is something that we should approach with a great deal of concern. There can be no peace, stability or reconciliation without a process aimed at justice and accountability. We have failed the Syrian people over the past decade. Let us not paper over the cracks of instability and injustice with a final act of abandonment.”

Theguardian

UK barrister working on war crimes prosecutions who has focused on Syria

26 Sep 2021 6 6

Malik al-Abdeh

Inserted 2 years ago

“What the regime [of Bashar al-Assad] is desperate to achieve is to end the US and EU sanctions and restore diplomatic relations with Arab countries and the west. King Abdullah appears to be putting these on the table and saying 'let's give these to Assad in return for limited behavioural change'. Assad will not engage in a transactional relationship as described in the paper. Instead, he will likely exploit the channels extended to him to undermine whatever leverage the west/Arab states have.”

Theguardian

Syria watcher close to the Syrian opposition

26 Sep 2021 6 6

Danielle Moylan

Inserted 2 years ago

“The UN continues to advocate to all parties in Syria to ensure all civilians are afforded their rights, and that any returns are fully informed, voluntary, and dignified. It remains the UN's position that conditions in Syria are not conducive for large-scale, organized returns. The UN is not in a position to make security guarantees and has not made any such guarantees to people living in Rukban.”

Aljazeera

Spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

25 Sep 2021 4 3

Haya Atassi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are surprised the UN is involved in such activities in areas which are really not safe at all. The Syrian regime is not trustworthy. We can't trust the regime with these people. We think the UN in Syria is failing to properly inform Syrians of the situation and their activities in returning Syrians. The research shows a pattern with which the regime treats people coming back from Rukban. These people are not coming back to their homes, they're going to their death. The UN at this point in time have the responsibility to inform people that it is not safe to return, rather than facilitating their return. When you're left between two choices - of either staying in a camp and dying from starvation or cold, or going to Assad detention centres and dying under torture - they choose the lesser evil.”

Aljazeera

Spokeswomen for the Syrian Association for Citizen’s Dignity (SACD)

25 Sep 2021 8 5

Nabila Massrali

Inserted 2 years ago

“South-west Syria is seeing the worst and deadliest violence since 2018. Heavy shelling has killed dozens of civilians including women and children and 10,000 people have been displaced. The Daraa National Hospital, serving 50,000 people, was hit by mortars. There is a severe risk of escalation throughout Daraa province and beyond.”

Eeas

EU's spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy

04 Aug 2021 3 1

Joshua Landis

Inserted 3 years ago

“I just talked to my brother-in-law. His small plastics factory cannot run most of the time because electricity is cut for five-hour periods of time. He has difficulty getting fuel for his generator, which raises the price well above electricity costs. Due to inflation, prices change every day so that he cannot be sure that contracts he signs today will make money tomorrow. Foreign NGOs estimate that prices of most daily products have gone up 30 percent due to sanctions.”

Aljazeera

US-based Syria expert who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at Oklahoma University

16 Jan 2021 2 3

Aron Lund

Inserted 3 years ago

“Syria is a small market and it is simply not worth risking a US government lawsuit. By restricting Syria’s fuel supply through oil trade sanctions and by backing Kurdish control over the eastern oil fields, the United States hurts the Syrian economy as a whole. Tanks need gasoline to wage war, but farmers also need it to run their tractors, factories need the electricity, and civilians on all sides of the war depend on cars, buses and trucks being able to deliver people and goods.”

Aljazeera

Researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

16 Jan 2021 2 3

Bassam Barabandi

Inserted 3 years ago

“Russia opened a credit line to the regime to buy grain with a sovereign guarantee and in return gave access to oil [reserves] and phosphate mines.”

Aljazeera

Former Syrian diplomat who currently lives in the US in exile

16 Jan 2021 3 4

Ken Roth

Inserted 2 years ago

“The fact that the armed conflict diminished in large parts of the country is besides the point. The main targeted threat to returning refugees remains fully operational and is running at full speed. The multiple agencies that pray on Syrians are still running.”

Aljazeera

Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director

23 Sep 1955 4 3

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“At around 03:21 AM, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression with several missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean... targeting the container yard in Latakia port.”

“Captagon has probably become Syria's most important source of foreign currency. That does not mean that the revenues earned are going back into the economy. They are mostly being invested in the bank accounts of smugglers and warlords.”

“The idea of going to the Syrian government to ask about cooperation is just absurd. It is literally the Syrian government that is exporting the drugs. It is not like they are looking the other way while drug cartels do their thing. They are the drug cartel.”

“Produce prices change every day, and customers are in disbelief. And of course you have to take into consideration rent and transportation costs. Everything here is imported. Do we have any orchards or groves here?”

“The government continues to commit human rights abuses against Syrians, and so long as this continues any talk of returns would be premature.”

“Children's lives in Iraq and North East Syria are hanging in the balance as drought, low levels of water in key rivers, and lack of access to maintain damaged water station infrastructure have put water out of reach for millions.”

“Russia opened a credit line to the regime to buy grain with a sovereign guarantee and in return gave access to oil [reserves] and phosphate mines.”

“The fact that the armed conflict diminished in large parts of the country is besides the point. The main targeted threat to returning refugees remains fully operational and is running at full speed. The multiple agencies that pray on Syrians are still running.”

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