SvennoJ on 09 December 2024
Main headlines today involving Syria
- At least three civilians were killed during protests in northern Syria, as people there took to the streets to demand the expulsion of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
- Experts on international humanitarian law are warning that mass graves and burial sites in Syria must be preserved to enable future accountability efforts.
- US hostage affairs envoy Roger Carstens is in Beirut as part of “intensive efforts” by the US government to find American journalist Austin Tice and return him from more than a decade in captivity in Syria, US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters.
- Reuters news agency, citing two unnamed Syrian security sources, says Israeli planes bombed at least three major Syrian army air bases that housed dozens of helicopters and jets.
- Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations told the UN Security Council that deployments of Israeli troops into Syrian-controlled areas of the Golan Heights were “limited and temporary measures”.
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkiye is opening its Yayladagi border gate with Syria to manage the safe and voluntary return of the millions of Syrian refugees it hosts.
- The opposition fighters who overthrew al-Assad have announced a general amnesty for all military personnel conscripted into service under the former ruler.
