© Reuters/Muhammad HamedJordanian policeman at border crossing checkpoint near Mafraq, Jordan
Jordan is reopening its border crossing with Syria and resuming flights to Damascus. In Syria, more armed groups are laying down their weapons. But amid these positive developments, the US is hunkering down to inflict more pain.
On September 29, Jordan's Nassib border crossing to Syria
re-opened, meaning
a resumption not only of travel but of trade between the two nations. In early October, Royal Jordanian will start flying again to Syria's capital.
In Syria's south, after years of government and allied attempts to restore full peace,
the last armed groups have finally laid down their weapons in Daraa, which journalist Vanessa Beeley wrote about after her recent return there.
And while the Biden administration recently
changed talking heads in a Syria-related diplomatic position,
little else has altered regarding America's position on the country. Sanctions against the Syrian people have
continued under Biden,
and at least 900 US troops continue to illegally occupy Syria. Same old, same old for Syrians, who have endured 10 years of foreign war and terrorism against their country, as well as ten years of some of the most obnoxious lies and war propaganda.
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