Just the day before yesterday, Hama was captured, and the city's traffic police are already operating normally.
The rebels are making a significant effort to show that life in Hama has returned to normal in the areas they have captured / liberated.
For the same reason, they announced that foreign consulates and embassies can continue operating without interference.
They reiterated this today, even after today's unusual incident involving UN forces (the issued an official statement declaring that international institutions must not be harmed - AA).
It is important for them to show that they can create a "new and improved Syria" that functions like any other state, in contrast to the corrupt and totalitarian state governed by the Ba'ath Party over the last 61 years, 54 of which were under the rule of the Assad family (first Hafez al-Assad, and later his son Bashar).
Just the day before yesterday, Hama was captured, and the city's traffic police are already operating normally.
The rebels are making a significant effort to show that life in Hama has returned to normal in the areas they have captured / liberated.
For the same reason, they announced that foreign consulates and embassies can continue operating without interference.
They reiterated this today, even after today's unusual incident involving UN forces (the issued an official statement declaring that international institutions must not be harmed - AA).
It is important for them to show that they can create a "new and improved Syria" that functions like any other state, in contrast to the corrupt and totalitarian state governed by the Ba'ath Party over the last 61 years, 54 of which were under the rule of the Assad family (first Hafez al-Assad, and later his son Bashar).
The S&P 500 fell 1.3% to 4,204.36, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.7% to 32,943.33. The Dow posted a fifth straight weekly loss — its longest losing streak since 2019. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.2% to 12,843.81. Though all three indexes opened in the green, stocks took a turn after a new report showed U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in early March as consumers' inflation expectations soared to the highest since 1981. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields.
from jp
