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https://fx.substack.com/p/world-roundup-july-26-2022
SYRIA
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 10 people were killed Tuesday in clashes between pro- and anti-government forces in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda. The abduction of two anti-government individuals in the predominantly Druze province on Monday apparently sparked the violence.
Al-Monitor’s Amberin Zaman had a new piece on Monday that I think does a pretty good job of assessing where things stand with respect to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s desire to undertake another invasion of northern Syria. It seems clear that Erdoğan didn’t get the approval, or at least acquiescence, that he wanted during his visit to Iran alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, so for the time being his Syrian ambitions may be in limbo. But the US is still ineffectually trying to walk a line between supporting its Syrian Kurdish proxies and alienating Turkey (failing on both counts), so may be some leeway for the Turks to draw up an invasion plan that meets with Russian approval without sparking a US backlash.
SYRIA
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 10 people were killed Tuesday in clashes between pro- and anti-government forces in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda. The abduction of two anti-government individuals in the predominantly Druze province on Monday apparently sparked the violence.
Al-Monitor’s Amberin Zaman had a new piece on Monday that I think does a pretty good job of assessing where things stand with respect to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s desire to undertake another invasion of northern Syria. It seems clear that Erdoğan didn’t get the approval, or at least acquiescence, that he wanted during his visit to Iran alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, so for the time being his Syrian ambitions may be in limbo. But the US is still ineffectually trying to walk a line between supporting its Syrian Kurdish proxies and alienating Turkey (failing on both counts), so may be some leeway for the Turks to draw up an invasion plan that meets with Russian approval without sparking a US backlash.
