Kassioun Editorial 1167: “If a Sinner Gives You News, Verify its Truthfulness”
On March 22, a website named “al-Markazia” published an article entitled: “A paper of an American-Syrian understanding paving the way for the settlement phase”. The article claimed being based on a former minister with close knowledge of the paper…
Kassioun Editorial 1166: The Syrian File Must Get Moving Immediately!
The sides that say the solution to the Syrian crisis should be through Syrian-Syrian dialogue and that it is ultimately an internal Syrian matter are right. This opinion is the crux of UNSC Resolution 2254, which states that the Syrian people have t…
Kassioun Editorial 1165: How Do We Confront the Risk of Fragmentation?
Syria faces – in light of the circumstances it has gone and is going through – the risk of fragmentation as a serious and realistic risk. This risk grows as a result of the prolongation of the crisis, the de facto division, and the process of sweepi…
Kassioun Editorial 1164: The Constitutional Committee in Damascus, Politically Necessary and Practically Possible
The recent briefing the UN Special Envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, presented on February 27 before the UN Security Council, showed that the Constitutional Committee meetings’ venue “dilemma” still exists. This is despite the fact that he ultimately s…
Kassioun Editorial 1163: They Do Not Want a Solution!
Kassioun’s last editorial took an initial look at the US bill titled the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act”, which passed in the US House of Representatives on February 14th, with completion of the process of its enactment requiring the Senate’s…
Kassioun Editorial 1162: Why Are They Celebrating the “Anti-Normalization Act”?
A few days ago, the US House of Representatives passed a bill titled the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act”, which would guarantee preventing US federal officials from undertaking any activity that recognizes the Syrian government. The Act, which…
Kassioun Editorial 1161: Will the Syrian File Move?
Most those following the Syrian file agree that it is “currently frozen”. When looking for an explanation, what comes up is talk about the “Israeli” aggression in Gaza that has been ongoing for over four months and the accompanying major tensions in…
Kassioun Editorial 1160: Is the Region Heading to an All-Out War?
The recent US strikes on Syria, Iraq, and Yemen have stimulated analyses such as ones that say our region is on the verge of an all-out war. It is not a world war, but it is a broad war that includes several countries in the region at the same time…
Kassioun Editorial 1159: How Do We Prepare for a Possible US Withdrawal?
Whether US forces in remain in Iraq and Syria or withdraw therefrom is not determined by US internal electoral conflicts, but rather by the grand strategies of how Washington and its dollar elite manage its global struggle to maintain its hegemony.
Kassioun Editorial 1158: What is Meant by “Safe Zones”?
Violence and military activity started in Syria less than a year after protests began in March 2011. As violence gradually dominated, ending up completely taking over the scene, expressions such as “safe zones”, “buffer zones”, and “no-fly zones” st…