News for Friday, 2024-12-20

The SFM’s News:

• The media office for The Syrian Future Movement published: From the memory of the Syrian revolution: 2012/12/20. On this day in 2012: Demonstrations took place in the city of Raqqa, including student protests at the Colleges of Education and Arts at Al-Furat University – Raqqa branch. Male and female students from Ibn Khaldoun and Hamida Al-Tahir High Schools gathered in a joint demonstration, and popular protests occurred on Tel Abyad Street and February 23 Street.
• The media office for The Syrian Future Movement published: Syrian Revolution Caricatures No. (185).

Internal News:

• Syrians continue celebrations of the “Liberation Festival” in Umayyad Square, Damascus.
• Al-Sharaa meets the first American delegation in Damascus since Assad’s fall.
• The U.S. military announces the killing of two ISIS members in strikes in Syria.
• Israel expands its occupation of Syrian lands, capturing two villages in Daraa.
• Syrians remove Hafez al-Assad’s name from a wall of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
• Civil Defense retrieves 21 bodies and bags of human remains in Sayeda Zainab, Rural Damascus.
• A protester injured by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire in Daraa.
• The Syrian Ministry of Information calls on Syrian journalists who defected from the former regime during the revolution to return and help build a media platform reflecting the people’s aspirations for freedom and dignity.
• After Homs and Hama, the “Liberation Festival” is set to launch this afternoon in Damascus.
• Mazloum Abdi: “Non-Syrian Kurdish fighters” will leave the country if a complete ceasefire with Turkey is achieved.
• The Sednaya Association reveals the identities of those involved in stealing sensitive documents from the prison.
• Civil Defense issues an appeal regarding mass graves in Syria, emphasizing the need to protect them.

Related News:

• The International Organization for Migration calls for a reassessment of sanctions on Syria.
• A delegation from the “International Coalition” discusses the demands of Syrian Kurds in Qamishli.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces his country’s readiness to support the new Syrian administration in establishing a state based on a new social contract.
• The Sudanese Prime Minister announces the resumption of Iraq’s diplomatic mission in Syria.
• The European Union approves “core principles” for engaging with Syria’s new government.
• To achieve justice and accountability, the United Nations warns of the loss of evidence of war crimes in Syria.

International News:

• Seven Palestinians martyred in an Israeli airstrike targeting an apartment in Al-Nuseirat Camp.
• “Health of Gaza” reports the Palestinian death toll rising to 45,206.
• Turkey secures a U.S. exemption to continue payments for Russian gas.