Israel attacks Syria - over 60 strikes in five hours
Israel has carried out over 60 strikes against locations in Syria in the past few hours, the UK-based conflict monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says according to AFP. In total, 61 robots were fired at facilities used by the Assad regime's military in just five hours.
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group that led last week's uprising in Syria, told Syrian state media that there are "no excuses for a foreign intervention in Syria now that the Iranians have left." That's what The Guardian writes.
- We are not in the process of starting a conflict with Israel.
Over the past week, Israel has launched over 400 strikes against Syria after Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in an Islamist-led offensive. The dictator has long been allied with both Iran and Russia.
Israel gives green light to new settlements in Syria
The government of Israel has decided to expand the settlements on the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. Reuters reports.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acted "in light of the war and the new front in Syria".
"Strengthening the Golan strengthens the state of Israel, and that is especially important at this time," he writes in a statement.
The ambition should be to double the Israeli population in the area. Just over half of the inhabitants of the Golan Heights are Israelis.
The regime flew 2.7 billion in cash to Russia
The Syrian central bank flew over a two-year period equivalent to just over SEK 2.7 billion in cash to Moscow in 2018 and 2019 at the same time as Bashar al-Assad received Russian support during the civil war, according to the Financial Times.
These are several shipments of banknotes in foreign currencies, euros and dollars, with a total weight of almost two tons. The deliveries coincided with the al-Assad family buying luxury properties in Moscow and the Syrian regime becoming more dependent on Putin's military support.
- Russia has been a haven for the Assad regime's finances for years, says Eyad Hamid at the Syrian Legal Development Programme.
Israel has carried out over 60 strikes against locations in Syria in the past few hours, the UK-based conflict monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says according to AFP. In total, 61 robots were fired at facilities used by the Assad regime's military in just five hours.
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group that led last week's uprising in Syria, told Syrian state media that there are "no excuses for a foreign intervention in Syria now that the Iranians have left." That's what The Guardian writes.
- We are not in the process of starting a conflict with Israel.
Over the past week, Israel has launched over 400 strikes against Syria after Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in an Islamist-led offensive. The dictator has long been allied with both Iran and Russia.
Israel gives green light to new settlements in Syria
The government of Israel has decided to expand the settlements on the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. Reuters reports.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acted "in light of the war and the new front in Syria".
"Strengthening the Golan strengthens the state of Israel, and that is especially important at this time," he writes in a statement.
The ambition should be to double the Israeli population in the area. Just over half of the inhabitants of the Golan Heights are Israelis.
The regime flew 2.7 billion in cash to Russia
The Syrian central bank flew over a two-year period equivalent to just over SEK 2.7 billion in cash to Moscow in 2018 and 2019 at the same time as Bashar al-Assad received Russian support during the civil war, according to the Financial Times.
These are several shipments of banknotes in foreign currencies, euros and dollars, with a total weight of almost two tons. The deliveries coincided with the al-Assad family buying luxury properties in Moscow and the Syrian regime becoming more dependent on Putin's military support.
- Russia has been a haven for the Assad regime's finances for years, says Eyad Hamid at the Syrian Legal Development Programme.
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