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https://fx.substack.com/p/world-roundup-july-12-2022
SYRIA
US Central Command is claiming that it killed Islamic State’s commander in Syria, Maher al-Agal, in a drone strike in northern Aleppo province on Tuesday. There are local accounts of a drone strike in that area that targeted and killed two people on a motorcycle. Central Command’s statement only says that Agal was killed but it does mention an associate of his who was reportedly wounded in the strike. That’s probably the second person on the motorcycle. One starts to wonder why so many senior IS figures seem to be living in parts of Syria that are either under direct Turkish control or at least supposed to be under Turkish oversight. Eh, I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation.
There are a few more details available regarding Monday’s six month renewal of the United Nations humanitarian relief effort from southern Turkey into northwestern Syria. The “compromise” resolution that the UN Security Council finally approved on Tuesday doesn’t seem to be a compromise so much as it’s a capitulation to Russia’s demand for a six month extension as opposed to a full year. It requires briefings every two months from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the status of Syrian recovery and, more to the point, of efforts to expand humanitarian relief operations that originate in Syria rather than Turkey and that are delivered to rebel-held regions across the front lines of Syria’s frozen civil war. The UNSC can vote in January to extend the Turkish operation for another six months, but the Russians will presumably veto that extension unless they see sufficient progress on building up intra-Syrian relief efforts.
SYRIA
US Central Command is claiming that it killed Islamic State’s commander in Syria, Maher al-Agal, in a drone strike in northern Aleppo province on Tuesday. There are local accounts of a drone strike in that area that targeted and killed two people on a motorcycle. Central Command’s statement only says that Agal was killed but it does mention an associate of his who was reportedly wounded in the strike. That’s probably the second person on the motorcycle. One starts to wonder why so many senior IS figures seem to be living in parts of Syria that are either under direct Turkish control or at least supposed to be under Turkish oversight. Eh, I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation.
There are a few more details available regarding Monday’s six month renewal of the United Nations humanitarian relief effort from southern Turkey into northwestern Syria. The “compromise” resolution that the UN Security Council finally approved on Tuesday doesn’t seem to be a compromise so much as it’s a capitulation to Russia’s demand for a six month extension as opposed to a full year. It requires briefings every two months from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the status of Syrian recovery and, more to the point, of efforts to expand humanitarian relief operations that originate in Syria rather than Turkey and that are delivered to rebel-held regions across the front lines of Syria’s frozen civil war. The UNSC can vote in January to extend the Turkish operation for another six months, but the Russians will presumably veto that extension unless they see sufficient progress on building up intra-Syrian relief efforts.
