The response to the earthquake in Syria and Turkey

By, Issam Khoury
1,556 victims arrived at the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey, which makes the total number of victims 4,963 victims.

In fact, this number is less than the figure announced by Agence France-Presse estimated at 5,800 victims, and it does not match any of the statistics of the Syrian Network for Human Rights or the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Human, or the Syrian regime.

The Captagon trade and Syria

By, Issam Khoury CSIORS, Feb 20, 2023 The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) [1] for Fiscal Year 2023 included, in one of its clauses, a bill to disrupt and dismantle the production of Captagon pills produced by the regime in Syria. Representative French Hill portrayed [2] it on December 8, 2022, as a source of…

A drifting economy

By, Issam Khoury
The Iranians wanted to be partners with the Russians in the Syrian-Turkish coordination process, so they decided to stop supplying the Syrian regime with oil at a reduced price, and demanded a price of $70 per barrel

Operation Claw-Sword

By, Issam KhouryThe Czech-Slovak Institute of Oriental Studies Dec 08, 2022 Four armored vehicles flying the American flag, accompanied by combat units of the Syrian Democratic Forces, headed on December 2, 2022, to the vicinity of the Al-Malikiyah “Derik” area in northeastern Syria, with the aim of monitoring the Turkish-Syrian border, and a similar patrol…

Summary of the meetings of the Syrian American consultative meeting

CSIORS fellow expert in the US Issam KHOURY attended a Syrian-American meeting, which was held on October 29, 2022, in Washington DC. Here you can read his report from the event. Oct 29, 2022 By, Issam Khoury The Czech-Slovak Institute of Oriental Studies Interdiction “Freedom, justice, and dignity” were and still are targets for the…

2022 IRF Forum

CSIORS fellow expert in the US Issam KHOURY attended INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FORUM, which was held on October 27-28 in Washington DC. Here you can read his report from the event. “Azadi”, or freedom in Persian, was present at the InternationalReligiousFreedomForum, which was held at the Press Club in Washington, DC, on October 27-28, 2022….

Policy paper “The Muslim Treasury and Minorities”

Al-Ghanayem office “The Muslim treasury, or Bayt Almal”, an office of the Syrian Salvation Government that is administratively affiliated with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham “formerly al-Nusra”, and its mission is to seize all real estate and lands belonging to figures loyal to the regime, or any non-resident figure in Idlib governorate. This office was established in 2016 under the supervision of the preacher Abdullah Al-Muhaysn. This office provided high revenues for the Salvation Government, affiliated with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, to become a financial resource in addition to the rest of this government’s sources.

Assad and Me, The Daily Report

The Daily Reports, Shania Thura,  June 10, 2022 We as a whole know Syrian President Assad, however who am I, who was referenced in Assad and Me? With this bewildering question, we started to peruse the book of author and insightful Issam Khoury, depicted by previous U.S. Representative to both the Democratic and Republican organizations…

Blue Skies, Blue Seas: Air Pollution, Marine Plastics and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa

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