Elizabeth Tsurkov
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White House to discuss this week whether to approve Israeli West Bank annexations
Divisions exist in the White House and in Israel's government
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
White House to discuss this week whether to approve Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank bit.ly/2CsqVBB by @BarakRavid
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Syria Caesar Act Designations - United States Department of State
More than six years ago, the brave photographer known as Caesar shocked the world by smuggling out of Syria the photographic proof that the Assad regime was torturing and executing many thousands of Syrians in the regime’s prisons. This act of...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
أول 39 مستهدف من قبل قانون قيصر بينهم: بشار الأسد, أسماء الأسد, ماهر الأسد, بشرى الأسد, منال الأسد, محمد حمشو, أحمد صابر حمشو, عمر حمشو, علي حمشو, سمية هامشو (زوجة علي حمشو), رانيا الدباس, غسان علي بلال, سامر الدانة, لواء الفاطميون, الفرقة الرابعة
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Syria’s Economic Meltdown
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
My new in-depth research on Syria's economic meltdown, the intensifying corruption & the regime's attempts to channel whatever resources it has left to perceived loyalists. I also include policy recommendations focusing on U.S. sanctions
bit.ly/37HUnPH for @CGPdc
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Anti-regime protest in Sweidaa amidst economic meltdown, June 7, 2020
Protesters chanted: "Syria is for us and not the Assad clan," "freedom," "the people demand the fall of the regime," "those who do not participate [in the pr...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Long video from today's anti-regime protest in Sweidaa'. I translated the chants in the description. Despite the limited ability of the mukhabarat to arrest locals in Sweidaa', taking to the streets with such chants takes guts
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Why Syria isn’t firing its S-300 missiles at Israeli jets
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Aftermath of Israeli strikes tonight on the Defense Factories near Masyaf, Homs. Syrian regime media reports that air defenses were activated.
One of Russia's S-300 systems is based near Masyaf, but per agreement with Israel, the system is not activated. haaretz.com/middle-east-ne… pic.twitter.com/HxTMetFix6
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بالتفاصيل.. التجنيد الروسي إلى ليبيا يصل دير الزور - عنب بلدي
أفاد مصدران متقاطعان من مدينة دير الزور بقيام القوات الروسية بالبدء بعمليات تجنيد مقاتلين من المحافظة للذهاب إلى ليبيا، والقتال […]
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Russia has begun recruiting young men in regime-held Deir Ezzor to go fight in Libya for Haftar's side. Some of the recruits are from the al-Quds Brigade, a militia close to Russia originally made up of Palestinian Syrians
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Journalists publish new evidence of Russian mercenaries torturing and killing a Syrian deserter in 2017 — Meduza
The newspaper Novaya Gazeta has published two new videos corroborating the brutal torture and murder of a man in Syria. Mercenaries from the “Wagner” Russian private military company allegedly carried out the killing in June 2017.
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
@AbraxasSpa This barbarity is nothing new to Wagner mercenaries, who filmed themselves torturing a Syrian man and beheading him bit.ly/3eoWGJm
(graphic content here) bit.ly/3eqkX1F
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Головорезы 2.0
Новые подробности преступления «группы Вагнера» в Сирии
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
@AbraxasSpa This barbarity is nothing new to Wagner mercenaries, who filmed themselves torturing a Syrian man and beheading him bit.ly/3eoWGJm
(graphic content here) bit.ly/3eqkX1F
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[email protected] with Tony Blinken
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
First relatively clear articulation of Biden's Syria policy from his adviser Blinken
bit.ly/2LG176m Biden's policy will be to remain in NE Syria, avoid normalization with Assad (good) & revive the Geneva process (won't happen unless US increases leverage on the ground)
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Silencing the Guns in Syria’s Idlib
With the Syrian regime’s offensive in Idlib paused, the time is now for a deal sparing the rebellion’s last stronghold the full wrath of reconquest. The parties should pursue an improved ceasefire including the regime, Russia, Turkey and the...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Important, insightful new report by @dkhalifa & the @CrisisGroup team about Idlib, the last stronghold of the Syrian opposition, and what's to be done about the hard-line rebel faction ruling it, Hayat Tahrir a-Sham
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Explosion kills at least 15 mercenaries in Afrin
A bomb-laden tanker has exploded near the former municipality building in the occupied Afrin city on Tuesday.
According to initial reports, at least 15 mercenaries were killed and many ...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
40 people were killed, some of them children, in a vehicle-borne IED explosion in Efrîn. No side claimed responsibility & unlikely any ever will, but a media outlet sympathetic to the YPG reported about the explosion claiming it killed "mercenaries" bit.ly/35d1v5b pic.twitter.com/lzbKdeiCmo
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Syrian Executive and Security Forces Take Advantage of COVID-19 Curfew to Oppress Civilians - Syrians for Truth and Justice
Background: Syria was the last of its neighbors; Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, to officially report coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The first case of COVID-19 in Syria was announced on March 23,…
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
The Syrian secret police is arresting those who violate the COVID-19 curfew and letting them go after they pay bribes
bit.ly/2Y6fybi
More of the involvement of the Syrian secret police in the regime's response to COVID bit.ly/2Y1S2fw
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مسلسل النهاية أغنية يا مصر يا خضرا إهداء إلي الحبيبة مصر!!
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
A futuristic fantasy set in 2121 aired on the Egyptian @ONENT channel last night and since removed from their YouTube portrays the breaking apart of the USA, destruction of Israel & the escape of its Jewish residents "back to Europe & other countries"
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Ravaged by war, Syria’s health care system is utterly unprepared for a pandemic
Officially, Syria has just 42 COVID-19 cases, all but one of them in regime-held areas, as testing capacity is almost non-existent elsewhere. The actual number of cases is certainly higher, but there appear to be few severe cases at the moment. Yet,...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Ravaged by war, Syria’s health care system is utterly unprepared for a pandemic mei.edu/publications/r… My new in-depth piece with @Qussai_jukhadar based on interviews with doctors working across Syria, NGO workers, epidemiologists & recently released political prisoners
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
The Syrian secret police is arresting those who violate the COVID-19 curfew and letting them go after they pay bribes
bit.ly/2Y6fybi
More of the involvement of the Syrian secret police in the regime's response to COVID bit.ly/2Y1S2fw
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‘Arrested Development’: Rethinking Local Development in Syria - COAR
‘Arrested Development’:Rethinking Local Development in Syria ‘Arrested Development’:Rethinking Local Development in Syria 31 March 2020 Table Of Contents Download PDF Version Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on print Share...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Study looking at attempts by communities under Damascus' control to rehabilitate basic services & the parasitic regime structures & cronies thwarting them and extracting bribes bit.ly/3ajpzUU This is what will happen if donor $ go to reconstruction
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كورونا في سوريا، ومسرح اللامعقول
* تُنشر هذه المادة ضمن ملف "الحرب على كورونا: معركة جديدة مصيرية للسوريين\ات"
أغلقت الحكومة السورية المدارس والجامعات في سوريا إبتداء من يوم 14 آذار وحتى 2 نيسان لتعقيم الصفوف، وأصدرت قراراً بمنع الأركيلة في المقاهي. وجاء هذا القرار بغتةً إذ أن...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Hungry school children in Lattakia tell a reporter that teachers didn't tell them about COVID-19 & how to protect themselves from it, but they were lectured on taking pride in the Syrian lira & warned them against trading in dollars
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That tremor called trauma
Even without direct exposure to violence, emotional stress builds up insidiously to cause rarely-discussed forms of trauma
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
My interview with @SynapsNetwork on research-related trauma and why talking about it is so challenging
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السماح لمهن جديدة بالعمل منها بيع العدد الصناعية وإصلاح الجوالات | الاقتصادي
الاقتصادي - سورية: أصدرت رئاسة مجلس الوزراء قراراً بالسماح لمحلات الصاغة، وتركيب منجور الألمنيوم والبلور، وخراطة المفاتيح، ومحلات العدد الصناعية بالعمل ضمن فترة التجول. وسمحت الحكومة في جلستها اليوم الثلاثاء، بعمل محلات إصلاح الجوالات وتعبئة...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
The Syrian gov is reopening sections of the private sector including mechanic shops, taxi officers, cellphone shops, artisan shops, agricultural product shops as the already fragile Syrian economy fell off a cliff due to COVID work stoppages
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Russia transports large number of tanks to Syria: photos
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:20 A.M.) - The Russian Federation sent another large batch of tanks and armored personnel carriers (APC) to the Syrian Arab Republic,
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
What Syrians need right now: flour, rice, sugar, fertilizer, PPE. What Russia sends them instead: tanks to kill fellow Syrians.
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'After war we now have this': Syrians grapple with poverty and coronavirus
Collapse of economy leaves country unable to cope with prospect of a major outbreak
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
“Even if the sanctions are lifted... The regime has never prioritised the health of its citizenry or even its core support base over its ability to wage warfare. Healthcare in the Syrian army and militias is terrible" theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… via @WomenKnowMENA
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