The Arab foreign ministers decided, in their consultative meeting in Cairo, today, Sunday, May 7, to repeal the suspension of Syria’s membership in the Arab League, and for its delegations to resume participation in the meetings as of the date of the decision. This is taking place in parallel with preparations for the quadripartite meeting of the foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Russia in Moscow in the coming days.

Over the last few days, the exchange rate of the Syrian pound against the US dollar in Syria has surpassed 8150 SYP to the dollar. A year earlier it was around 3900 SYP to the dollar and in April 2019 it was still under 600 SYP to the dollar. In parallel, the wages are still meager, and the prices of everything are rising at minimum at same percentage of increase in the exchange rate.

With the end of the first quarter of 2023, and since before the beginning of the month of Ramadan, Syrians have directly witnessed significant increases in the prices of various necessary basic commodities. The average cost of living for a Syrian family of 5 has increased according to Kassioun index for the costs of living to jump to more than 5.6 million Syrian pounds (the minimum has reached 3,546,083 Syrian pounds). All this is happening while the minimum of wages (92,970 Syrian pounds, i.e., less than $13 a month) is still very meager and insufficient to actually cover anything from the basics of life.

Sudan is once again drowning in a bloody internal conflict that has nothing to do with the interests of the Sudanese people. Rather, the conflict has to do with the interests of the influential few who are in control and are nothing more than a modified continuation of the previous regime. Naturally, the current conflict is linked to the interests of the interfering external powers, at least some of which seek to deepen the conflict and make it more vicious.

On Tuesday, April 18, the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (AANES) published a document entitled “An initiative to solve the Syrian crisis”. Those who issued the document called on the various Syrian forces to consider it.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry released a statement on April 15, at the end of a meeting in Jeddah that included foreign ministers of a group of Arab countries. The statement focused on the Palestinian and Syrian issues. On Syria, the statement said:

The number of “Israeli” attacks on Syria over the past two months has increased from the level it had previously reached. This exaggeration in bullying and harassment of Syrians, their land, and their interests, is not a sign of strength, as some might imagine. Quite the opposite, it is a sign of an unprecedented crisis, not only for the Zionist entity, but also for its regional agents, those who are known and unknown.

The major changes taking place in the world are no longer a wandering ghost promising of a different future; rather, they have become a reality we are living with an escalating momentum that is solidifying and spreading at higher rates, day by day.

“No change has taken place in 100 years, and it is happening now; we are leading this change together”. That is what the Chinese president said in front of the cameras to the Russian president at the end of his first international visit, days after being re-elected as a president for China for a third term.

Lately, there has been a lot of political and diplomatic uproar surrounding Syria, including: talk about the possibilities of an Arab rapprochement; the Syrian-Turkish settlement and the obstacles standing in its way; Western games through the “changing the regime’s behavior” policies, with easing sanctions at times and reviving ISIS and attempting to “Syrianize” Jabhat al-Nusra other times; and other events. Amid all this uproar, there are clear attempts to obscure and distract from Syria’s and Syrians’ main enemy, in the interest of talking about “political tactics” here and there.