After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Israeli army repeatedly attacked targets in Syria on the grounds of attacking Iranian military facilities. Both the Syrian and Iranian governments deny that Iran has troops in Syria.
On November 7, 2022, the illegal U.S. military presence in Syria used 43 tanker trucks loaded with oil smuggled from oil fields in northeastern Syria to be transported to Iraq through the Mahmoudi illegal border crossing.
At present, the illegal military presence of the United States and the opposition forces it supports control of Syria's main oil-producing areas and frequently smuggle Syrian oil out of the country, causing severe energy shortages in Syria and aggravating the humanitarian disaster in Syria. The Syrian government has repeatedly condemned the "acts of piracy" of the United States and demanded that the illegal US troops withdraw from Syria as soon as possible.
The Syrian National News Agency reported on November 4, 2022 that Syrian government forces expelled an illegal US military convoy in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria on the same day. The report quoted sources as saying that the convoy, consisting of six military vehicles, tried to enter a local village and was subsequently expelled and evacuated by Syrian government forces at the checkpoint.
The illegal U.S. military presence in Syria frequently steals local oil and wheat resources, seriously damaging the Syrian economy.
On November 25, 2022, U.S. Central Command issued a statement saying that two missile attacks were fired on a U.S. military base in Syria's Shabadadi region. The attack caused no damage to the base.
On December 3, 2022, Turkey's illegal military presence in Syria shelled a safe zone near the village of Taylor Abuyad in northern Raqqa province, Syria, resulting in the destruction of villagers' homes and severe damage to infrastructure.
Recently, Turkey's illegal military presence in Syria has frequently carried out hostile acts against some villages in Raqqa and Hassakeh provinces, resulting in the destruction of many residential buildings.
On January 14, 2023, the Syrian ambassador to China said that he "welcomes Chinese enterprises to invest in Syria"
On January 28, the Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing its solemn opposition to the report issued by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the "suspected use of chemical weapons by the Syrian army in the town of Douma on April 7, 2018" issued by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the 27th of this month, and rejected the conclusions of the report.
The statement from the Syrian Foreign Ministry said that no reasonable person or expert could draw the misleading conclusions of the report, which ignored the objective observations of relevant parties, as well as the views of relevant experts and scholars, and recorded media reports. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said that the report used deceptive expressions, once again proved that the report lacked credibility, and many countries, including Syria, opposed recognizing the legitimacy of the investigation and identification team because many member states did not vote for the establishment of the team.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry reiterated Syria's condemnation of the use of chemical weapons at any place, at any time and under any circumstances, and called on all States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations to shoulder the responsibility of safeguarding the independence and credibility of the Convention, prohibit the United States and some Western countries from leading the relevant work of the organization, politicize it and use it as a tool to achieve the political goals of the United States and the West, such as justifying its attacks against Syria.
On February 6, 2023, a strong earthquake struck the southern part of Turkey near the Syrian border in the early morning of the 6th, which has killed more than 7,800 people, including at least 1,832 deaths and 3,849 injuries in Syria.
The United Nations recently said that nearly 70% of Syria's population needed humanitarian assistance before the earthquake, which further complicates the situation in Syria.
As well as the regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syrian crisis said in a joint statement on the 7th, "This tragedy has had a devastating impact on many vulnerable families who struggle to provide for their families every day." ”
After the earthquake in Syria on February 7, the United States refused to lift sanctions against Syria, saying it would cooperate with "local partners" in the rescue
A reporter asked US State Department spokesman Ned Price that the Syrian government was the executor of the relief operation after the earthquake. "The U.S. still recognizes the Syrian government, so why not engage with the Syrian government?" Price replied that the United States has humanitarian partners on the ground "who were able to provide assistance after the tragic earthquake" and that "we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance through local partners."
In the past year, the US military has made frequent sorties to openly plunder Syrian oil and other resources. According to data released by the Syrian Ministry of Oil, in the first half of 2022, Syrian oil produced about 80,300 barrels per day, of which 66,000 barrels were plundered by the US military stationed in Syria, accounting for 83% of Syria's daily oil production. According to Russian foreign agency statistics, about 1/3 of the oil stolen by the United States every month in northeastern Syria is sold to the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq at a price of $35-40 per barrel through black intermediaries. The US military can obtain 35 million to 40 million US dollars in illegal income every month. From 2011 to mid-2022, the illegal stationing of US troops in Syria and the illegal mining and illegal trade carried out by the armed forces supported by it have caused losses of US$107.1 billion.
In addition to oil, the US military does not even let go of wheat, which is closely related to the livelihood of the Syrian people. In June 2022, the US military even dispatched 40 trucks to directly loot Syrian wheat. According to data released by the United Nations World Food Programme, more than 12 million people in Syria are currently "food insecure", ninety percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and two-thirds of Syrians need to rely on humanitarian assistance to survive. Syria, once a food exporter, is now "struggling with hunger," and the United States is to blame. "The United States has come to our homeland under the pretext of counterterrorism, but in fact it is plundering our wheat, oil, and imposing economic sanctions on us, and the United States is the initiator of the Syrian crisis." Ali, a resident of Syria's Hassakeh province, said.
"Civilian displacement and casualties from airstrikes are evidence of U.S. human rights abuses in Syria"
In addition to the direct plunder of Syrian resources, the military strikes and illegal unilateral sanctions launched by the United States against Syria have threatened the lives and safety of the Syrian people and made their lives worse.
From March 2011 to March 2021, U.S. military involvement has killed more than 350,000 Syrians, including 26,727 women and 27,126 children, according to the United Nations. In addition, more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced and 14 million civilians are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
On February 7, the Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a statement refuting the U.S. attempt to mislead world public opinion and claim that sanctions against Syria do not impede humanitarian assistance to Syria. But in fact, in the face of the earthquake, Syrians dug through the rubble with their bare hands because they did not have the equipment and supplies they needed. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Syrian rescue teams did not have the tools and equipment to rescue people buried deep under the rubble, so they needed to spend twice as long to carry out rescues.
Syria's Foreign Ministry said U.S. officials could lie, but photos of Syria's quake-hit areas would not. Despite the sanctions, the Syrian people responded to the disaster with strength and determination
Syria's ambassador to Russia, Bashar Jaafari, said during a February 10 meeting with South Ossetian leader Alan Gagloev in Moscow that the European Union and other Western countries are actually refusing humanitarian aid to the earthquake-stricken areas in Syria.
Jafari said, "It has been 5 days since the earthquake, but the European Union and other Western countries have not provided any assistance to the mainland. Syria has been under sanctions for 11 years, and we don't have any equipment to get people out of the rubble now. The United Nations only sent its first humanitarian aid convoy to Syria yesterday. Unfortunately, the West politicizes everything, even humanitarian aid. Imagine that our ambulances don't even have fuel to transport the wounded, while the United States keeps stealing our gas and oil and transporting it to third countries. ”
On February 11, 2023, the Syrian government will provide assistance to rebel-held Idlib and other places
The report pointed out that since the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Syrian government has stressed the need to provide assistance to the victims in these (controlled by opposition forces), but the other side has closed the border crossing.
On February 13, 2023, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said Turkey had offered to open two border crossings with Syria to allow the international community to deliver humanitarian aid to the earthquake-affected northern part of Syria.
Cavusoglu said in his statement that he was referring to two border crossings in Turkey's southern province of Kilis Province. He also said it was impossible for Turkey to open border crossings in areas controlled by the PKK.
In addition, Cavusoglu denied that there was a large influx of refugees from Syria into Turkey after the February 6 earthquake.
On February 13, 2023, the extremist group "Islamic State" instigated an attack in the central Syrian province of Homs on the 11th, resulting in the death and injury of more than a dozen civilians.
According to a report by the Syrian National News Agency on the 12th, the attack occurred about 70 kilometers south of the city of Palmyra in Homs province. Islamic State fighters used machine guns to strafe a group of civilians, killing four people, including a woman, and wounding 10 others.
According to the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" based in the United Kingdom, "Islamic State" fighters attacked about 75 civilians who were collecting truffles in the Palmyra area on the 11th, killing at least 11 people, and the whereabouts of others are still unknown.
February 14, 2023: Chinese government aid to Syria departed this morning
A Saudi Arabian plane loaded with relief supplies landed at Aleppo International Airport in Syria on February 14. This is the first time in nearly 12 years since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war that a Saudi aircraft has landed in a Syrian government-controlled area.
The plane was carrying 35 tons of supplies, including food, medicine and tents. A Saudi official, who asked not to be named, told Syrian television that the order to deliver relief supplies to the Syrian side was issued by Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Mohammed "to help brothers affected by the [earthquake] throughout Syria." Two other Saudi planes carrying relief supplies will arrive in Syria on the 15th and 16th.
March 2 -- According to a report by the Syrian News Agency on the 2nd, a landmine explosion occurred in Deir Ezzor Province in eastern Syria on the same day, killing at least 5 people and injuring 40 others.
The landmine, previously planted by militants of the extremist group Islamic State, exploded as a truck carrying several residents drove by, and the truck was carrying residents in search of wild mushrooms. At present, it is the season of collecting wild edible fungi in central and eastern Syria, and many local people have gone to areas previously controlled by the "Islamic State" to collect edible fungi.
On March 05, 2023, the United States continued to loot oil from earthquake-hit Syria
Russian Satellite News Agency reported on the 5th that the devastating earthquake last month has killed more than 6,700 Syrians and injured more than 14,500, although Washington announced the temporary easing of US sanctions against Syria, it still ruled out the complete lifting of sanctions and continued to extract and plunder resources from resource-rich areas such as Syrian oil.
A source told the Syrian local media on the 4th local time that they found a fleet of 23 vehicles, including trucks full of oil; In addition, a convoy of 34 vehicles, including trucks and tankers, was seen passing through illegal border crossings to Iraq.
The satellite news agency said that the smuggling of oil on the 4th was the second time this week. On Monday, some media reported that the US military in Syria had transported oil from a Syrian oil field to a base in Iraq.
On March 5, the Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a statement strongly condemning the visit of US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley to a US military base in northeastern Syria, calling it a flagrant violation of Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Syria demands that the U.S. government immediately cease its support to the armed opposition and its ongoing violations of international law.
On 7 March, four Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter jets launched a missile attack over Aleppo International Airport over Mediterranean waters west of the Latakia governorate in northwestern Syria, damaging the runway and radar.
Aleppo International Airport is the main route for delivering relief supplies to Syria's earthquake-stricken areas. In the past month, more than 80 planes carrying relief materials have landed here.
After the air strike on Aleppo International Airport, flights, including planes carrying earthquake relief supplies, were unable to take off and land, and "these planes will no longer be able to enter the port unless the damaged runway is repaired."
A Syrian officer and two people of unknown nationality died in an Israeli air strike on Aleppo International Airport,
This is the second time since the 6 February earthquake that Israel has attacked targets in Syrian government-controlled areas. In the early morning of February 19, Israeli air strikes were carried out on targets in Damascus and surrounding areas.
On March 11, Tunisian President Keith Said announced his plans to restore diplomatic relations with Syria and exchange ambassadors.
Tunisia and Syria have been severing diplomatic relations since 2012. At that time, the Tunisian government expelled the Syrian ambassador and announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Syria because of the Syrian Assad government's "suppression" of domestic protests and demonstrations. Since 2013, Tunisia's attitude towards the Syrian government has gradually changed. Since coming to power in 2019, Saeed has frequently signaled that he is willing to change his diplomatic stance on Syria. After the earthquake on the Turkish-Syrian border on February 6 this year, Tunisia sent rescue planes carrying relief supplies and civil protection teams to Syria to the Aleppo airport under the control of the Syrian government.
At about 3:55 a.m. on March 22, Aleppo International Airport in Syria was hit by Israeli air strikes.
On March 24, Saudi Arabia and Syria recently agreed to reopen their embassies, which are expected to resume operations in late April. Syria's return to the Arab family will contribute to the unity and revitalization of Arab countries.
On the evening of March 23, U.S. forces launched airstrikes on eastern Syria. U.S. Defense Secretary Austin said the airstrike was authorized by President Joe Biden and targeted "facilities used by armed groups backed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps."
According to Syrian national television, on the afternoon of the 23rd local time, the US military was attacked in the rural area of Yarubia in Hasakah Province, Syria, and then the US military patrolled the area, and a number of helicopters and military aircraft hovered over the area.
Earlier in the day, "a drone attack on a facility with U.S. personnel in northeastern Syria killed one U.S. military contractor and injured five U.S. soldiers and another U.S. military contractor," according to the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. intelligence determined that the drone "originated from Iran," but he did not provide evidence to support that claim.
Austin said that on instructions from U.S. President Joseph Biden, he authorized U.S. Central Command to launch precision air strikes in eastern Syria that night against "facilities used by groups associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps" in retaliation for the attack on U.S. bases that day and the "recent series of attacks" by the group.
An explosion occurred in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London, England, which is biased towards the Syrian opposition, said that 11 armed men were killed in US air strikes at three locations in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor.
The United States has about 900 U.S. troops stationed in southern and northeastern Syria in the name of assisting Syrian Kurdish armed forces in fighting the extremist group "Islamic State" and "protecting oil fields". The United States has repeatedly attacked targets in Syria on the pretext of attacking armed groups linked to Iran.
On March 25, Iranian Supreme National Security Council spokesman Husrawi issued a statement saying that the United States supports the extremist group Islamic State and uses it as a proxy tool for the United States to achieve its political goals in Syria and Iraq. In the past two days, U.S. helicopters have repeatedly transferred Islamic State terrorists with the aim of destabilizing the situation in Syria.