В последние две недели Халед Аль-Рушд, автор и ведущий программы «Путешествие в прошлое» на Russia Today (на арабском языке), представил два новых эпизода своей программы, первый из которых назывался «Большевики и вопрос поддержки Великой сирийской революции », а во втором эпизоде затрагивались отношения Коминтерна и Сирийской коммунистической партии.

In the past two weeks, Khaled Al-Roushd, the author and presenter of «Journey Through Memory» program in Russia Today (Arabic), presented two new episodes of his program, the first one was entitled «Bolsheviks and the question of supporting the Great Syrian Revolution» while the second episode touched on the relationship between the Comintern and the Syrian Communist Party.

More than a week has passed since the US- Turkish announcement of reaching an agreement on a “safe zone” in the northeast of Syria, and the various facts and statements confirmed what we went to in the previous Kassioun editorial, when we described the agreement as a “mutual lying” between the US and Turkey, through which each seeking to trap the other. Since the first hours after the announcement, signs of this have emerged through the absence of any effective practical steps, as well as through a series of Turkish-American mutual statements, some of which carried a more escalating tone than before the agreement.

The announcement of the US-Turkish consensus on a “safe zone” in the north-east of Syria is at the forefront of the news circulating on the Syrian situation, and some go so far away in reading and understanding this declaration, up to the point of trying to redraw the whole Syrian panel...

The announcement of the US-Turkish consensus on a “safe zone” in the north-east of Syria is at the forefront of the news circulating on the Syrian situation, and some go so far away in reading and understanding this declaration, up to the point of trying to redraw the whole Syrian panel...

The various tracks related to UNSC resolution 2254 and the solution to the Syrian crisis, whether those tracks are Geneva, Astana, Sochi or the Constitutional Commission, continue to worked on step by step and through many difficulties. Progress in any of them is, in sum, useful for the whole process. However, the essence of the matter is still, as always have been, the necessity for radical, deep and comprehensive national democratic change.

In the last few days there have been very contradictory statements on the subject of the constitutional committee, especially from the US side, whose representative in the UN Security Council has declared that the idea has been given enough time and has not been realized, and therefore, the international envoy must abandon it, in parallel with the completion of understandings on the Committee and the approach of the declaration of its formation.

After the rise of the US ado over the past months about Iran, from the withdrawal from the nuclear agreement and then the imposition of sanctions, and the tightening of sanctions time after time, reaching brinkmanship after the downing of the drone, through the threat of a military strike, and even the logistical preparation of such a strike, the US mountain of escalation gave birth to a mouse, and the calls for dialogue and negotiation returned to dominate the scene.

The Syrian economic file is witnessing a number of heavy and «interdependent» operations of vandalism, on top of them are the following:

US officials recently said that the solution in Syria would pass through «difficult decisions» that «all parties» have to take.