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The desired tone is one of appeasement. The leader of the Syrian rebels, Abu Mouhammad al-Joulani assured that the Syrian people were “exhausted” by years of war in the country and that there would be no“other”in a short interview broadcast Tuesday December 10 on the Sky News channel, based in London. At the same time, thehe new Prime Minister in charge of the transition in Syria, Mohammed al-Bashir, promised “stability” et “calm” to the Syrian people, in an interview with the Qatar-based Al Jazeera channel.
54 fleeing soldiers were executed by the Islamic State group. The soldiers were arrested in the desert of Homs province while “fled (…) during the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime”specified the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Families urged not to exhume the bodies of the missing themselves. Relatives of the missing in Syria must not give in to their desire to try to find and exhume the bodies themselves, as this could prevent them from being identified, the Red Cross has urged.
France and Germany ready, under conditions, to “cooperate with the new leaders”. Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz spoke on Monday about the situation in Syria. They are ready to cooperate “on the basis of fundamental human rights and the protection of ethnic and religious minorities”according to the German Chancellery.
Israel has carried out more than 300 strikes in Syria. The Israeli army has “destroyed the main military sites in Syria” by carrying out around 310 strikes against the country since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. According to this organization, Israel has, among other things, bombed airports, radars, arms and ammunition depots and military research centers in several regions.
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