Author: Gregory Holyoke
Published on: 11/03/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Violent clashes broke out last week in the Syrian coastal governorates of Tartus and Latakia. The two governorates have a high population of Alawites, a minority group from which the al-Assad family hails. As government forces announced they had “neutralised” the opposition, the independent Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) group reported 40 massacres had killed 973 mostly Alawite civilians, as well as hundreds of government fighters. Some have spoken of “revenge killings” and SOHR reporting is adamant that the majority of those killed were Alawite civilians. The effects of the violence have not only reverberated within Syria’s borders. A senior Arab diplomatic source told Euronews that while Syrian leaders were invited to the meeting of foreign ministers, the same invitation was not extended to their intelligence chiefs. After the conference, the ministers unanimously called for countries to lift sanctions introduced during the al-Assad regime to alleviate Syria’s dire economic problems. ADVERTISEMENT It poses crucial questions for the EU and Western allies. Approximately 500 arms producers are operating in Ukraine, collectively employing nearly 300,000 people. Smetanin says all of them are ready and capable of increasing output and production. “not a single country would be able to be fully self-sufficient given the intensity of Russia’s war against Ukraine” A new generation of young people is emerging who are capable of further developing this country in five or ten years. Ukraine is now waiting for the most complicated weapons of its own make. Three years into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine “now already has its own home made missiles,” he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the serial production of the Palyanytsia missile drone was underway. A new long-range version of Ukraine’s domestically produced Neptune cruise missile is expected to become operational in the near future. NASAMS is a European-made mobile air defence system capable of launching 72 missiles in just 12 seconds.
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