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  • Itamar Ben-Gvir
    Itamar Ben-Gvir “I have no doubt that Netanyahu will bring me in [the war cabinet]. I think Netanyahu understands very well what I want from him. We have private conversations and in private conversations I allow myself to tell him many things.” 2 hours ago
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    William Lai “I hope that China will face the reality of the Republic of China's existence and in good faith ... engage in cooperation with the legal government chosen by Taiwan's people.” 2 hours ago
  • John Kirby
    John Kirby “When it comes to Iranian policy, it is Khamenei who calls the shots, not the president. So we don't anticipate any change in Iranian behavior. And therefore the Iranians should not expect any change in American behavior when it comes to holding them accountable.” 3 hours ago
  • Ali Vaez
    Ali Vaez “The upcoming election offers an opportunity for the clerical establishment to pursue a different course by allowing a relatively competitive vote. But I suspect that the regime is dedicating all its efforts to preparing for a succession after Khamenei, striving to create homogeneous conditions at the top of the power pyramid, and not allowing any rivals into this circle.” 3 hours ago
  • Sanam Vakil
    Sanam Vakil “[Raisi] was a loyal functionary willing to do the bidding of the supreme leader through multiple institutions. There are no obvious candidates that can tick a lot of boxes.” 3 hours ago
  • Hamidreza Azizi
    Hamidreza Azizi “The death of Raisi, in itself, will not cause a significant shift in Iran's policies. After all, the president is the second in command in the power hierarchy of the Islamic republic, and strategic directions are set by the supreme leader. The next president could have significant influence over the overall trajectory of Khamenei's succession. As a result, this is going to lead to heightened intra-conservative competition to [become president].” 3 hours ago
  • Lauren Easton
    Lauren Easton “The Associated Press decries in the strongest terms the actions of the Israeli government to shut down our longstanding live feed showing a view into Gaza and seize AP equipment. The shutdown was not based on the content of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country's new foreign broadcaster law. We urge the Israeli authorities to return our equipment and enable us to reinstate our live feed immediately so we can continue to provide this important visual journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world.” 9 hours ago
  • Itamar Ben-Gvir
    Itamar Ben-Gvir “Israel should be the one that controls the Gaza Strip, unequivocally, and no one else. Most important is encouraging voluntary emigration of Palestinians from the enclave. Israel could then facilitate the return of settlements. I would love to live in Gaza if possible.” 9 hours ago
  • Donald Tusk
    Donald Tusk “An attempt to show that the prime minister of Israel and the leaders of terrorist organisations are the same, and the involvement of international institutions in this, is unacceptable.” 9 hours ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “They [the Russian side] are always blocking everything, they will undermine the process, and they won't rest until they present us with their own plan for ending the war, which will inevitably be an ultimatum, as we have seen on many previous occasions. We can't hand the initiative over to them [...] Our agenda can't be dictated by Russia. This is a war against us, so there is justice in this. The goal of the summit is to come up, between Ukraine and its allies, with a joint stance on three key questions - and then to inform Russia of their position. If all countries support these three points, as I said, then a detailed step-by-step plan will be developed and presented to Russian representatives across different platforms that different countries have [...] Then Russia will have to contend with most of the world.” 9 hours ago
  • John Holman
    John Holman “Few question his ongoing legitimacy and he [Zelenskyy] remains popular. Although lower than before, his approval rating's still above 60 percent. Many Ukrainians also feel an election would be unrealistic and disrupt the war effort. In a poll this March [2024], 78 percent of those asked said they were against elections before the end of the war. But in addition to that there's also the practical difficulties. Some Ukrainian towns are in ruins. Many power plants have been hit so there's rolling blackouts. And perhaps most importantly, there's 8 million people displaced, 5 million outside the country.” 9 hours ago
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Situation in Syria

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Joel Rayburn
Joel Rayburn

“The idea of going to the Syrian government to ask about cooperation is just absurd. It is literally the Syrian government that is exporting the drugs. It is not like they are looking the other way while drug cartels do their thing. They are the drug cartel.”

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U.S. special envoy for Syria during the Trump administration
05 Dec 2021 3 4
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Filippo Grandi
Filippo Grandi

“These are Syrian nationals, and it's the government's responsibility to ensure their security. We are engaging with the government to highlight refugees' concerns such as their safety, property rights and livelihoods. We also need the international community to help as well, to provide much-needed resources so that people can also fix their damaged homes, have running water, health care and send their children to school. Sustainable returns require collaboration from all concerned parties. We must also ensure robust support to refugees and hosting countries.”

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
18 Oct 2021 4 2
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Geir Pedersen
Geir Pedersen

“The two co-chairs now agree that we will not only prepare for constitutional reform, but we will prepare and start drafting the constitutional reform. We concluded that we were not making sufficient progress, and that we could not continue the way we have been working. Since then, close to nine months, I've been negotiating between the parties, trying to establish a consensus on how we are going to move forward.”

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United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
17 Oct 2021 1 3
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Toby Cadman
Toby Cadman

“This is not a regime with whom we should consider re-establishing diplomatic relations. The recent rapprochement by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar is something that we should approach with a great deal of concern. There can be no peace, stability or reconciliation without a process aimed at justice and accountability. We have failed the Syrian people over the past decade. Let us not paper over the cracks of instability and injustice with a final act of abandonment.”

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UK barrister working on war crimes prosecutions who has focused on Syria
26 Sep 2021 6 6
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Malik al-Abdeh
Malik al-Abdeh

“What the regime [of Bashar al-Assad] is desperate to achieve is to end the US and EU sanctions and restore diplomatic relations with Arab countries and the west. King Abdullah appears to be putting these on the table and saying 'let's give these to Assad in return for limited behavioural change'. Assad will not engage in a transactional relationship as described in the paper. Instead, he will likely exploit the channels extended to him to undermine whatever leverage the west/Arab states have.”

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Syria watcher close to the Syrian opposition
26 Sep 2021 6 6
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Danielle Moylan
Danielle Moylan

“The UN continues to advocate to all parties in Syria to ensure all civilians are afforded their rights, and that any returns are fully informed, voluntary, and dignified. It remains the UN's position that conditions in Syria are not conducive for large-scale, organized returns. The UN is not in a position to make security guarantees and has not made any such guarantees to people living in Rukban.”

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Spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
25 Sep 2021 4 3
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Haya Atassi
Haya Atassi

“We are surprised the UN is involved in such activities in areas which are really not safe at all. The Syrian regime is not trustworthy. We can't trust the regime with these people. We think the UN in Syria is failing to properly inform Syrians of the situation and their activities in returning Syrians. The research shows a pattern with which the regime treats people coming back from Rukban. These people are not coming back to their homes, they're going to their death. The UN at this point in time have the responsibility to inform people that it is not safe to return, rather than facilitating their return. When you're left between two choices - of either staying in a camp and dying from starvation or cold, or going to Assad detention centres and dying under torture - they choose the lesser evil.”

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Spokeswomen for the Syrian Association for Citizen’s Dignity (SACD)
25 Sep 2021 8 5
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Nabila Massrali
Nabila Massrali

“South-west Syria is seeing the worst and deadliest violence since 2018. Heavy shelling has killed dozens of civilians including women and children and 10,000 people have been displaced. The Daraa National Hospital, serving 50,000 people, was hit by mortars. There is a severe risk of escalation throughout Daraa province and beyond.”

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EU's spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy
04 Aug 2021 3 1
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Joshua Landis
Joshua Landis

“I just talked to my brother-in-law. His small plastics factory cannot run most of the time because electricity is cut for five-hour periods of time. He has difficulty getting fuel for his generator, which raises the price well above electricity costs. Due to inflation, prices change every day so that he cannot be sure that contracts he signs today will make money tomorrow. Foreign NGOs estimate that prices of most daily products have gone up 30 percent due to sanctions.”

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US-based Syria expert who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at Oklahoma University
16 Jan 2021 2 3
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Aron Lund
Aron Lund

“Syria is a small market and it is simply not worth risking a US government lawsuit. By restricting Syria’s fuel supply through oil trade sanctions and by backing Kurdish control over the eastern oil fields, the United States hurts the Syrian economy as a whole. Tanks need gasoline to wage war, but farmers also need it to run their tractors, factories need the electricity, and civilians on all sides of the war depend on cars, buses and trucks being able to deliver people and goods.”

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Researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
16 Jan 2021 2 3
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Ken Roth
Ken Roth

“The fact that the armed conflict diminished in large parts of the country is besides the point. The main targeted threat to returning refugees remains fully operational and is running at full speed. The multiple agencies that pray on Syrians are still running.”

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Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director
23 Sep 1955 4 3
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