It continues at a fast pace the political transition in Syria with intense consultations for the assignment of the various ministries in the interim government, led by Muhammad Bashirexpression of Islamist armed coalition Of Hayat Tahrir ash Sham (Hts)embodied in the Military Commander Ahmad Sharaa (Jolani) and has been registered with for years United States and fromEuropean Union in the list of terrorist organizations.
After theamnesty to all government soldiers, Jolani he assured, however, that “the torturers” of the US regime Assadwhich lasted 54 years, will not be forgiven and that there can be none for them amnesty. «We will prosecute them in Syria and we ask the countries to hand over those who have fled to us so that justice can be achieved,” he said Sharaaproving skilled in balancing reassuring smiles and threatening glances.
So far, however, the new authorities a Damascus they did not comment on the relationships with Israelwhich carried out new ones during the night air raids on military objectives, effectively continuing the demilitarization of the Syria of the future. An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed what was reported by Syrian media about the raid by the armed forces of the country Jewish state – who have been occupying new portions of Syrian territory for days in violation of the UN resolutions – of an unknown number of Syrian tanks and other war vehicles Damascus.
Jolanifor his part, presided over Damascus a meeting with other “revolutionary” armed factions from the regions of Daraa And Qunaytraright on the border with the Golan occupied by Israel.
These factions, united in Southern Military Councilwere the first, on Sunday at dawn, to enter the capital after they had mobilized – for the first time since 2018 – in the wake of the triumphal march that Hts he was doing coming from the north. Precisely the decisive role of the southern factions in the fall of Damascus – after the government forces had already disappeared – gave the insurgents Daraa And Qunaytra the possibility of participating in negotiations for the appointment of the future Minister of Defense.
On the topic of the interim government, he expressed his opinion today Geir Pedersenspecial correspondent UN for the Syriawhich reminded Jolani and to his colonels, but also to the foreign sponsors of the coalition now in power, the need to ensure an inclusive transition process that respects all the country’s political forces, “to avoid a new civil war”.
The internal and regional war in Syria However, it continues on the northern and eastern fronts. Under the blows of pro-Arab forcesTurkishthe Kurdish factions withdrew from the enclave of Manbij. In the morning a truce was announced on that front following an agreement between United States And Türkiyemember of Born.
The USA have been present militarily for 10 years Syria in the north-east and east of the country and have so far supported, in operation anti-Iranianthe Kurdish forces, expression of Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK)considered “terrorist” by Ankara. There Türkiyefor its part, has already occupied portions of the north of Syria in 2018 and 2019. And it seems to want to continue the work by wiping out any Kurdish presence south of its southern border.
In the capital Damascus instead life is returning, at least apparently, to a fragile normality: there is no longer any curfewbanks and shops have reopened, petrol stations now sell fuel without asking motorists for ration cards, but prices have increased. Even theDamascus international airport it could reopen “in the next few days”.