A UN envoy on Sunday called for a quick end to Western sanctions against Syria as the country’s new leaders and regional and global powers begin to chart a path forward following the fall of President Bashar Assad.
This frame grab from a video provided on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, shows United Nations' special envoy to Syria, Geir Pederson speaking to journalists upon his arrival to Damascus, Syria.
Parts of Syria’s biggest cities remain damaged or destroyed by years of fighting. Reconstruction has been stymied largely by sanctions that aimed to prevent rebuilding of damaged infrastructure and property in government-held areas in the absence of a political solution. With the clock on the Biden administration running out, it isn’t clear what approach President-elect Donald Trump will take on Syria.Syria's interim government is set to rule until March, but it has not yet made clear the process under which a new permanent administration would replace it.
At Nahla Zaidan school in the capital’s Mezzah neighborhood, teachers hoisted the three-starred revolutionary flag in place of the former government’s two-starred Syrian flag.“Syria is trying to build up this country with these children who came. Although I think some of them are afraid, they came to build Syria and to live the victories of this country,” said Maysoun Al-Ali, director of the school.
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