Among them is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the commander of the Republican Guard

Britain imposes sanctions on Syrian officials and those close to Assad

Two Syrian children work in a war waste yard in Idlib.

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Britain announced, yesterday, the imposition of new sanctions on six allies of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, including the Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Al-Miqdad, Luna Al-Shibl, Al-Assad's advisor, businessmen Yasser Ibrahim and Muhammad Baraa Qaterji, Republican Guard commander Malik Alia, and the commander of the Fifth Corps in the Syrian army, Zaid Salah .

The British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, accused the Assad government of "a comprehensive attack on the Syrian citizens, whom they must protect," according to his description.

He added that Britain is working with the UN Security Council to pressure Syria to meaningfully engage in the peace process led by the United Nations and the talks of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva, as well as London urging Damascus to release people who have been arbitrarily arrested, and to allow aid unimpeded access to all Over the country.

These sanctions are the first imposed by London on Damascus under Britain's independent policy of sanctions after Brexit, and Britain, which formally left the European Union last January, previously imposed sanctions on Damascus through the bloc.

Yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a political solution to the conflict in Syria, which is still without a way out 10 years after its outbreak.

Macron wrote, in a tweet on the social networking site "Twitter": "To the Syrian people, I want to say: We will never give up this battle."

He added, "We will remain with the Syrian people to respond to their humanitarian needs, defend international law, fight impunity and find a political solution, the only possible one."

On the other hand, the Turkish Ministry of Defense and local rescue workers said that missiles hit fuel tankers in northern Syria, near the Turkish border, wounding two people.

The fuel tankers were parked next to makeshift oil refineries between the towns of Al-Bab and Jarablus, the same area that was hit by missiles earlier this month.

Local rescue workers said that two people were wounded late in the evening, the day before yesterday, in the strikes, which the Turkish Ministry of Defense said were caused by rockets and shells fired from a military base in Aleppo governorate.

On the other hand, the Syrian News Agency (SANA) said that the Turkish forces and the gunmen supporting them attacked residential areas in the town of Tadef and the Kuiris area in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, which led to damage to some property of the people and public facilities in these villages.

SANA stated that a terrorist operation targeting the city of Damascus with explosive belts was thwarted, and three terrorists were eliminated, and three others were arrested.

In addition, the United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syrian Crisis, Muhannad Hadi, said that humanitarian organizations hope to help millions to survive.

However, on the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict, he stressed that the solution in Syria is not humanitarian, but rather political.

"Unfortunately, this war that arose in Syria led to the displacement of millions of people, between refugees and displaced persons inside Syria, not to mention the number of deaths who died in this war," the United Nations News website quoted Hadi as saying.

He added, "People in Syria need all kinds of humanitarian support, including shelter, education, etc., and the situation in parts of Syria has reached them in need of all kinds of support from the United Nations and the international community."

He pointed out that the United Nations has provided aid to millions of Syrians, but this aid in fact does not cover all needs in Syria, but rather covers the most affected and needy group of the rest of the Syrian groups, according to him. He pointed out that the Corona pandemic has greatly affected the situation of people in Syria, in addition to All the difficulties they face, stressing that "Syria needs a political solution and an end to the brutal, bloody 10-year war."

He pointed out that "humanitarian work is only auxiliary work to keep people alive in the face of difficulties, but there is no solution to end the conflict through humanitarian action."

Demonstrations in Idlib

Thousands of people demonstrated in Idlib, yesterday, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Syrian protests, and the demonstrators chanted slogans chanted in the first demonstrations that took place on the streets in March 2011, along the lines of "Freedom, Freedom, Freedom ... Syria Deserves Freedom."

Yesterday, the Syrian conflict entered its eleventh year, burdened with a death toll of more than 388 thousand, and tens of thousands of missing and displaced persons, with the exception of the displacement and displacement of more than half of the population inside and outside Syria, the destruction of infrastructure and the depletion of the economy.

Other areas in Idlib, including the border city of Atma, which is narrowing with displaced people, witnessed similar demonstrations.

Others demonstrated in cities under the control of the Turkish forces and the armed factions loyal to them in northern Aleppo, such as: Azaz and Al-Bab.

Idlib - AFP

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United Nations: Syria needs a political solution, and an end to the bloody 10-year war.

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