- Rebel leader makes negotiations aimed at the establishment of a new government
- West urges HTS to rein in violence before talking about diplomacy3
- It is said that more than one hundred airstrikes are carried out by Israel.4
- Europe freezes processing of Syrian asylum applications
The rebel, who overthrew Bashir al-Assad to stake a claim to Syria, on Monday, started negotiations on power sharing after effecting this move on Sunday. zing power.
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However, as world capitals seek to establish new relations with the new rulers, many have had their concerns being violence as well as chemical weapons in the country.
On Sunday there was celebration and on Monday there was the semblance of normalcy in Damascus with cars back on the roads and people out after curfew at night but shops remained closed. Assad’s Prime Minister, Mohammed Jalali, said in an interview on Al Arabiya TV that he is willing to surrender power to the Salvation Government which is an organization formed by an area that is surrounded only by rebels in the northwest of Syria. engage with the new rulers, many have expressed concern over the violence, as well as the security of chemical weapons in the country.
After a day of celebration on Sunday, life seemingly returned to Damascus on Monday, with traffic returning to the streets and people venturing out after a nighttime curfew, but most shops still remained shut.
Assad’s Prime Minister, Mohammed Jalali, told Al Arabiya TV he had agreed to hand power to the Salvation Government, an administration based in a small pocket of rebel-held territory in northwest Syria.
He said the process of handing over such facilities would take days to complete. The head of the insurgents Ahmed al-Sharaa also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani had a night briefing with Jalali and the vice president Faisal Mekdad over a transitional government, a source close to the discussions said to Reuters. ave expressed concern over violence, as well as the security of chemical weapons in the country.
After a day of celebration on Sunday, life seemingly returned to Damascus on Monday, with traffic returning to the streets and people venturing out after a nighttime curfew, but most shops still remained shut.
Assad’s Prime Minister, Mohammed Jalali, told Al Arabiya TV he had agreed to hand power to the Salvation Government, an administration based in a small pocket of rebel-held territory in northwest Syria.
He said the handover could take days to carry out.
The main rebel commander Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, had met overnight with Jalali and Vice President Faisal Mekdad to discuss a transitional government, a source familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
Al Jazeera television said the transitional authority would be headed by Mohamed al-Bashir, who ran the Salvation Government before the 12-day lightning offensive that swept into Damascus.
Syria’s Baath party led by Assad also said on Monday that it would support the transition. The purpose of the party, which will remain supportive of a transitional phase in Syria aimed at defending the unity of the country, “will continue to be crystal clear regardless of the attempts to distort it,” party Secretary-General Ibrahim al-Hadid said in a statement.
Shun violence
A diplomatic acceptance could be an issue for the new government because HTS is still considered a terror organization by the United Nations.
The EU is “not currently engaging with HTS or its leader’s full stop”, EU spokesman Anouar El Anouni said. Although the bloc had positive words stars and praises from Golani it said it would be slow in judging the Islamists.
Speaking to Anouni about this possibility as HTS continues to assume more roles and responsibilities, we will have to start watching not only what they say but also what they do.
Germany said that while HTS has made efforts to chart a new direction separate from its inception with the Al Qaeda terrorists, Berlin will be keen to learn how the group treats civilians especially minorities in the region that it currently occupies.
However, according to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the UK will only deal with the rebels where HTS denounces ‘terrorism and violence’.
Starmer, who was in Saudi Arabia on Monday, said it was still “far too early to” retire the policy of not working with terrorists but to be “absolutely clear on that red line about terrorism and violence now.”
The same occupies Turkey’s foreign minister who demanded that the United Nations assist HTS and other Syrians in forming “an inclusive government”. For its part, the US pledged to ensure that the militant Islamic State group cannot regroup in Syria and that the country does not fragment, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday.
Israeli attacks
‘Judging by recent statements of Israeli officials, the country will increase its airstrikes on the Sydney stockpiles of advanced weaponry but will maintain a ‘limited presence’ of its troops on the ground,’ Vesti reports «in the wake of potential threats that may surface as a result of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow.
On Monday, Israel’s Tel Aviv bombed more than 100 military targets in Syria, including a research center ‘believed by the West’ to be involved in the production of dangerous chemical weapons in Damascus, according to the war monitor.
‘Israeli aircraft bombed more than 100 targets inside Syria today, one of which targeted the Barzah scientific research center’, said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The UN’s chemical watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said on Monday that chemical weapons had been moved out of Syria after being warned by the UN not to remove them unsafely after the regime change.
The OPCW reported that it had communicated with Syria ‘to stress the necessity to safeguarding the security of all chemical weapons-related materiel and the storage and production facilities in Syria’.
Blinken also stated that the US and Turkey have a clear interest in guaranteeing that whatever WMD or aspects are left in Syria should not be rendered to the wrong hands.
Asylum applications
At the same time, asylum seekers are on hold from Syrians while the European countries wait for further information.
The judgment, which applies to tens of thousands of fresh claims, registered the increasing political volatility in Syria and the emergence of neo-rightist parties in many European countries willing to reduce immigration.
The interior ministry of Germany, now hosting nearly one million Syrian refugees, said on Monday it would not accept asylum applications until it understands the political situation in Syria better.
Britain also suspended its actions on asylum cases too, with the interior ministry stating they were looking into it.
Norway and Austria also stated that Syrian requests were suspended, and France said that it expected to make a similar statement shortly.