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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mazloum Abdi welcomes US decision to lift sanctions on Rojava
2022-05-15
[Rudaw] Mazloum Abdi, General Commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), applauded late Friday the US decision to allow foreign investment in northeast Syria (Rojava), saying they welcome all companies to invest there.

"We appreciate the US General License for #AANES areas to rebuild infrastructure and support our economy, a step that will counter ISIS and give hope to all Syrians. We welcome all companies to invest here," said Abdi in a tweet, referring to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES or AANES).

The US Department of the Treasury on Thursday issued an authorization allowing "activities in certain economic sectors" in Syria's non-regime-held areas in the northeast and northwest of Syria.

The decision permits activities in 12 different fields, such as energy, trade, and health among a variety of others in the area.

Washington issued crippling economic sanctions against the Syrian government as a result of its war crimes and atrocities committed against civilians and protestors since the Syrian civil war began over a decade ago.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, which sees Kurdish fighters in Rojava as foes due to their alleged organic links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has carried out a number of military operations against the SDF in recent years and frequently attacks them with artillery, jets and drones.

Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
warned on Friday that they "cannot accept US lifting sanctions in Syria’s YPG-held regions." The People’s Protection Units (YPG) is the backbone of the SDF.

The US has about 900 soldiers in Rojava and it has helped the SDF in the fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) and trained its fighters.
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