Monday News Summary 27-05-24.

SFM News:

• The Family Affairs Office of the Syrian Future Movement published an article titled: “Extreme Feminism Like Extreme Masculinity, ‘Petronella White’ as an Example.”
• The Economic Office of the Syrian Future Movement published an article titled: “Economy as a Factor for Political Change in Syria.”
• The Syrian Future Movement conducted a training titled “Ways of Self-Support.”
• The Media Office of the Syrian Future Movement published “Syrian Successes (3): Mustafa Suleiman.”
• The “Tawad” educational chain of schools, affiliated with the Syrian Future Movement, continues its program of teaching free basic education courses to its students in both its headquarters in A’azaz and Afrin.

Domestic News:

• Since the beginning of 2024, the Civil Defense has carried out 51,000 ambulance operations in northwest Syria.
• The Syrian Coalition praises France’s trial of three officials from the Syrian regime and calls for further steps.
• After losing contact with young men in Damascus, local fighters besiege the State Security in Inkhil.
• The Syrian regime issues a directive to stop the torture of crime perpetrators, excluding political detainees.
• The Revolutionary Guard deducts 100,000 Syrian pounds from its members’ salaries in Deir ez-Zor.
• In response to low prices, wheat deliveries to the “Autonomous Administration” are halted, and protests escalate.
• The Syrian regime repairs a gas plant in Sweida destroyed by Turkish airstrikes for the “SDF.”
• More than 500,000 applicants begin basic education certificate exams in Syria.
• The Syrian regime seeks to reopen the offices of the “Arab Board of Health Specializations” in Damascus.
• A new group of families from Deir ez-Zor prepares to leave al-Hol camp.
• A civilian car in Darat Izza, west of Aleppo, is targeted by a guided missile.
• By chance, the body of a fifty-year-old man is discovered three months after his death; he had been forcibly repatriated from Turkey and lived alone in the countryside of Aleppo.
• After a 12-year hiatus, the announcement of the date for the first Hajj trips from regime-controlled areas.
• “Response Coordinators” warn of the closure of dozens of hospitals in northwest Syria.
• The Syrian regime escalates in west Aleppo, and two people are killed in a drone attack.
• Security forces in Idlib arrest a former candidate for the “People’s Council.”
• Armed men kidnap a lawyer in front of his office in Sweida.
• The “Fourth Division” disrupts celebrations of the Al-Fotuwa Club during its return to Deir ez-Zor.
• The Syrian regime: Approximately 12,000 people have submitted candidacies for the “People’s Council” elections.
• Assassination operations continue in Sanamayn in Daraa countryside; 5 killed since the beginning of May.

Related News:

• The World Bank: More than a quarter of Syria’s population lives in extreme poverty.
• Jordan’s Foreign Minister before the Brussels conference: We feel that Syrian refugees have been abandoned.
• The European Union refuses to consider Syria safe and pledges two billion euros to support refugees.

International News:

• An Egyptian soldier was killed in a shootout with Israeli soldiers at the Rafah crossing.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency: Iran’s enriched uranium exceeds 30 times the allowed limit.
• The Houthis announce targeting two American destroyers and three ships.
• Within 24 hours, 3 bomb and IED attacks target American restaurants in Baghdad.
• Two former members of the OpenAI Board of Directors: AI companies should not govern themselves.
• Israel commits a massacre in a camp crowded with displaced people in southern Rafah, Gaza.