A week that started with a march toward war, that melted in the heat of U.S. politics, that morphed into high-level diplomacy, ended with a U.S.-Russian deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons.
Moaz al-Khatib, the former Damascus cleric and leader of the Syrian opposition coalition, has resigned his post to “work with freedom”
Syria is a “hemorrhaging country,” says Panos Moumtzis, the UNHCR’s regional refugee coordinator for the Syria crisis. He spoke with Syria Deeply founder Lara Setrakian in a Google Hangout this week, shortly after Syria’s official refugee toll hit the 1 million mark.
The Syrian National Coalition needs more than just words of support from the US and elsewhere to gain control of the country and start to find any form of stability
The US and its allies have hired contractors to train some Syrian rebel brigades in chemical weapons security according to diplomats and a US official that deal directly with developments in the country.