“The Syrian crisis will not be resolved until there is international consensus on the solution, and specifically American-Russian consensus”. This saying has been spreading widely within Syrian politicians on both sides of the fence, and to some extent among the general public. Perhaps the most dangerous thing in the matter is that this “saying” is being presented as an axiom, and as an absolute, simple, and inevitable truth, and there is no need to discuss its validity at all.

Some believe that the so-called “Step for Step” (S4S) project, which De Mistura launched in 2017 (through his plan that did not see the light at the time and was called the “Pre-Transitional Phase”) and which Pedersen continues to work on under its current name, has reached a dead end and has been put away.

Last Thursday, January 11, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) began looking into the case filed by South Africa on December 29, 2023, in which it accused “Israel” of committing the crime of “genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, on the basis of “Israel’s” violation of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention), based on both parties being signatories to the Genocide Convention. This is the first time that a case has been filed against the Zionist entity in the ICJ. However, in 2004 the ICJ consider…

Since Saturday, October 7, the day Al-Aqsa Flood operation was launched, there has been increasing focus on the “Israelis” held by the resistance in Gaza. They have been called different names depending on the media and political sides covering and commenting on events.

The Russian representative to the UN said in one of the many sessions held by the Security Council during the last few weeks to discuss the “Israeli” aggression against Gaza, and in response to the repeated Western argument for its unconditional support for the brutality of the Zionist entity based on “Israel’s” right of self-defense, the Russian UN representative said: “Israel has no right to defend itself because it is an occupying state.”

The grain agreement signed between Russia and Ukraine, with Turkish mediation, ended on July 22. The agreement stipulated allowing transport of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea, provided that the shipments be inspected in the Turkish Bosphorus Strait, under supervision of Turkey and the UN, so that they would not be used to transport weapons.