– Former senior US officials call on the US president to confront the normalization of relations with the regime pursuit by some countries
– The said officials warn against rehabilitating Bashar without carrying out real reforms and implementing UNSCR 2254
– Qatar: We will not let down the Syrians demanding their rights, and there is no Arab consensus on normalization with the regime
– The USA imposes new sanctions against 6 people and two companies involved in the regime’s production and export of Captagon
– The UK imposes new sanctions on 11 entities linked with the regime’s production and export of Captagon
– US Treasury: The regime is a global producer of Captagon, much of which is smuggled through Lebanon. Some smugglers have links to Hezbollah
– British Government:
1. Maher, brother of Bashar al-Assad, personally supervises the Captagon trade abroad.
2. The regime makes $57 billion a year from the Captagon trade.
– The New York Times: Biden stopped launching new strikes against the Iranian militia in Syria
– The Jerusalem Post: The regime and Iran draw a new red line for the USA in Syria
– The regime lost contact with 9 of its members in Deir Ezzor, and it found the dead bodies of 6 who were kidnapped two weeks ago
– The Syrian Kurdish Journalists’ Network demands the Kurdish militia of SDF to reveal the fate of a Kurdish journalist that was arrested by SDF a month ago
– Amnesty International: SDF detains tens of thousands of people, arrests hundreds of children, and continues to restrict freedoms