READOUT OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today in New York City with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss President Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine and its devastating effects on global food security. They discussed the Secretary-General’s visit in April to Kyiv and Moscow, noted concerns regarding ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 19 May, 2022 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Russia, Syria, The Secretary of State, ukraine, United Nations
Representatives of the United States, the Arab League, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom met in Brussels on May 10, 2022, to discuss the crisis in Syria. Begin Text. We applauded the European Union ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 12 May, 2022 | Topics: History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria
MEDIA NOTE
OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON Representatives of the Arab League, Egypt, the European Union, France, Germany, Iraq, Jordan, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States met in Paris on April 28 to discuss Syria. Begin Text: We expressed our lasting commitment to alleviating the suffering of the Syrian people and welcomed the upcoming ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 April, 2022 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria
In its brutal war against
Ukraine , Russia relies on conscript soldiers who are often unaware of their assignments and inadequately trained for combat, independent media reports indicate. Vladimir Putin insisted on several occasions that only professional soldiers and officers were involved in Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine and that conscripts would not be used. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 27 April, 2022 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: international security, Russia, Syria, ukraine
By
Leigh Hartman When governments flout democracy and the rule of law, human rights are in danger. Nowhere is that clearer than in the Russian government’s war against Ukraine, where the troops of President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime have committed widespread atrocities, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said April 12, when announcing the release of the U.S. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 15 April, 2022 | Topics: Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: Burma, China, civil society, freedom of expression, Russia, Secretary Blinken, Syria, ukraine
OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON The Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS remains resolutely committed to achieving the enduring defeat of ISIS. Recent events in Syria underscore both the success we continue to have in degrading Daesh/ISIS leadership and the continuing threat the terrorist group poses in the region and beyond. The removal of Daesh/ISIS leader Muhammad Said Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 9 February, 2022 | Topics: History, News, News from Washington | Tags: Countering Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Iraq, Office of the Spokesperson, Syria
8:49 A.M. EST MODERATOR: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us on short notice. Today’s call is going to be on background, attributed to “senior administration officials,” and the contents will be embargoed until the President concludes his remarks later this morning, probably at about 9:45 a.m., but please watch the feed and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 3 February, 2022 | Topics: History, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Counterterrorism, Syria
NED PRICE, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON The United States condemns Thursday’s ISIS attack on the Hasakah Provincial Internal Security Forces detention center in northeast Syria, which was an attempt to free detained ISIS fighters. We commend the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for their swift response and continued commitment to the fight against ISIS in northeast Syria. We ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 January, 2022 | Topics: History, News, News from Washington | Tags: ISIS, Syria
Nuclear weapons pose an existential threat. To confront that threat, the United States is committed to working with other nations to prevent nuclear war and strengthen the landmark Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In a
January 3 joint statement , the United States and the other NPT nuclear-weapon states called efforts to avoid war and reduce strategic risks “foremost responsibilities,” ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 6 January, 2022 | Topics: History, Key Officials, News | Tags: international cooperation, international security, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria
PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE The United States is taking action to promote accountability for entities and individuals that have perpetuated the suffering of the Syrian people. The United States is sanctioning eight Syrian prisons, five Assad regime officials in the institutions that run those facilities, two militia groups, and two militia ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 28 July, 2021 | Topics: History, Human Rights, Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria, Syria Crisis
ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE Yesterday, I was honored to co-host with Italy a productive meeting on Syria, during which I reiterated the imperative of ensuring that vital humanitarian assistance reaches all Syrians in need. I underscored the importance of reauthorizing and expanding the ability of the United Nations to provide this life-saving assistance to the Syrian people across borders — a ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 June, 2021 | Topics: Human Rights, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Refugees, Syria, The Secretary of State
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will join Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio in co-hosting a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS on June 28 to discuss efforts in the campaign to achieve the enduring defeat of ISIS. Ministers will discuss ways to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 21 June, 2021 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iraq, ISIS, Syria, The Global Coalition To Defeat, The Secretary of State
NED PRICE, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON We condemn in the strongest terms yesterday’s attacks on the al Shifaa Hospital in Afrin, Syria. This barbaric attack took the lives of children, medical staff, and first responders. Civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, must never be the target of military action. Additionally, we note that this hospital’s coordinates have ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 June, 2021 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria, Terrorist Attack in Syria
ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE SECRETARY BLINKEN: (In progress) and thank you, Dr. Ballour, both for the lifesaving service you performed for your fellow Syrians amidst the most harrowing circumstances, and for your powerful, determined efforts to bring the experiences of the Syrian people to the world – and to push for their rights ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 March, 2021 | Topics: History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Secretary Blinken, Syria
MR PRICE: Good afternoon, everyone. I apologize we’re running a couple minutes late here but thank you for joining us as we discuss tomorrow’s virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group. The meeting, as you know, will be co-hosted by Secretary Blinken and his Belgian counterpart, Deputy ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 March, 2021 | Topics: Human Rights, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Counterterrorism, Iraq, Stabilization, Syria
The United States condemns the terrorist attacks this past weekend in Azaz, al-Bab, and Afrin that resulted in the deaths of at least 20 civilians, including children. We extend our sincere condolences to the families of civilians killed and wish a quick recovery to those wounded in these despicable and senseless acts of violence. The ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 1 February, 2021 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria, Terrorism
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Five years ago last Friday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2254, firmly laying out the only path for an enduring resolution to the Syrian conflict. The United States and the vast majority of the international community remain committed to this dignified plan for ending the suffering of the Syrian people. The Assad regime, supported by its enablers and allies, however, refuses to end its needless, brutal war against the Syrian ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 December, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, Syria, The Secretary of State
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, the United States sanctioned four entities located in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia for supporting Iran’s missile program, under the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA). We imposed sanctions against Chengdu Best New Materials Co., Ltd. and Zibo Elim ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 27 November, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, Iran, Nonproliferation, North Korea, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, Syria, The Secretary of State
The United States is highlighting its commitment to prevent, mitigate and respond to atrocities globally. “When we say ‘Never again,’ it must mean more than words,” said Denise Natali, assistant secretary of state for Conflict and Stabilization Operations at a September 16 event hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace. “It must mean taking clear ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 3 November, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News | Tags: international cooperation, ISIS, policing, Syria
MORGAN ORTAGUS, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack near a crowded traffic circle in al Bab yesterday, which according to initial reports killed more than 20 innocent people and injured scores more. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of all the victims of this senseless tragedy. We are deeply troubled ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 7 October, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News | Tags: Syria, Terrorism
The United States is imposing additional sanctions against Syrian business and military officials who enable the Bashar al-Assad regime’s brutal crimes, including killings in countless Syrian communities. U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo announced the new sanctions September 30, following the three-year anniversary of the killing of at least 34 Syrians in the town ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 6 October, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: corruption, Sanctions, Syria
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Three years ago yesterday, on September 29, 2017, Assad regime forces, backed by Russia, killed at least 34 Syrians in the town of Armanaz. Since then, thousands of Bashar al-Assad’s bombs have been dropped on schools, hospitals, and markets across Syria. Too many lives have been lost in Assad’s futile search for ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 September, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, Syria, The Secretary of State
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Tomorrow will mark the seventh anniversary of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons attack in Ghouta which killed over 1,400 Syrians. Today, in memory of the victims of that brutality, the United States is announcing six sanctions against the Assad regime’s military, government, and financial supporters. As we continue to implement the goals of the Caesar ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 August, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News | Tags: Secretary Pompeo, Syria
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Today, the State Department and Treasury Department continued the United States’ sanctions campaign against the Assad regime by releasing 14 new designations under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act and other authorities. This campaign began last month with the first round of Caesar Act designations. We have named today’s tranche of designations the Hama and Maarat Al-Numan sanctions. These names are meant to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 July, 2020 | Topics: News from Washington | Tags: Human Rights, Sanctions, Syria
Secretary Pompeo Speech Clip – Russia and China Block Humanitarian Aid to Syria (July 20)
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 July, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, Key Officials, News, News from Washington, Video | Tags: Syria
Assad Regime’s Parliamentary Elections (July 20)
MORGAN ORTAGUS, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON Yesterday, the Assad regime held so-called Parliamentary Elections in Syria. Bashar Al Assad is seeking to present this dubious election as a success against alleged Western plotting, but in reality it is simply another in a long line of Assad’s stage-managed, unfree votes in which the Syrian people have ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 July, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News | Tags: Syria
The United States Announces Additional Humanitarian Assistance for the Syrian People (June 30) PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE At today’s fourth Brussels Conference on “Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region,” hosted by the European Union, Special Representative for Syria Engagement Ambassador James Jeffrey announced more than $696 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 June, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: humanitarian assistance, Secretary Pompeo, Syria
Attacks in Syria (June 23) We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of innocent civilians killed and those wounded in Syria today in the terrorist attack in Tel Halaf and the airstrike in Kobane. There must be sustained focus by all on the critical need for a lasting political resolution to the conflict ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 23 June, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria, Terrorism, Terrorist Attack in Syria
United States Publishes a Global Maritime Advisory to Counter Sanctions Evasion by Iran, North Korea, and Syria (May 14) The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the U.S. Coast Guard issued a global advisory to alert the maritime industry, and those active in ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 14 May, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Maritime Matters, North Korea, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, Syria
Countries Certified as Not Cooperating Fully With U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts (May 13) Yesterday, the Department of State notified Congress that Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba were certified under Section 40A(a) of the Arms Export Control Act as “not cooperating fully” with U.S. counterterrorism efforts in 2019. This is the first year that ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 May, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, News, News from Washington | Tags: Arms Control, Bureau of Counterterrorism, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Counterterrorism, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Office of the Spokesperson, Syria, venezuela
By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 7 May, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria, The Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS
U.S. helps counter COVID-19 outbreaks in Middle East and North Africa (May 4) The United States is providing more than $110 million to help countries in the Middle East and North Africa fight COVID-19, including Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, as well as the West Bank. The funding will improve disease detection and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 4 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, News, News from Washington | Tags: humanitarian assistance, Iraq, Syria
Terrorist Attack in Afrin, Syria (April 28) The United States condemns the act of terror carried out today in Afrin, Syria, claiming the lives of dozens of people shopping in the central market as they prepared to break the Ramadan fast. Initial reports indicate many victims were civilians, including children. Such cowardly acts of evil ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 28 April, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Countering, Office of the Spokesperson, Syria, Terrorism, Terrorist Attack in Syria
Statement by the Political Directors of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group (April 16) The Political Directors of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS Small Group met today virtually to reaffirm our shared commitment to continue the fight against Daesh/ISIS and maintain unity of purpose and cohesiveness in Iraq and Syria. The ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 16 April, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Defeating ISIS, Iraq, ISIS, Syria
The State Department Imposes Sanctions on Individual Responsible for the Violence in Northern Syria (March 17) PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Today, the United States is designating a senior Assad regime official who is responsible for the violence and the disastrous humanitarian crisis in northern Syria. The Department of State is imposing sanctions under Executive Order 13894 on ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 17 March, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, Sanctions, Secretary Pompeo, Syria, The Secretary of State
Terrorist Designation of ISIS Leader Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla (March 17) The Department of State has announced its intent to designate Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, the new leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under Section 1(a)(ii)(B) of Executive Order 13224, as ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 17 March, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, News, News from Washington | Tags: al-Qai’da, Bureau of Counterterrorism, Iraq, ISIS, Syria, Terrorism, Terrorist Designation, The Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS
New Sanctions under the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA) (February 25) PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE The United States is sanctioning 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey pursuant to the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA). This action includes new sanctions against five entities/individuals in China (Luo Dingwen, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 25 February, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, China, Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, Iran, Nonproliferation, North Korea, Office of the Spokesperson, Russia, Sanctions, Syria, The Secretary of State, Turkey, Weapons
Special Representative for Syria Engagement James F. Jeffrey Remarks to the Traveling Press (October 17) MS ORTAGUS: Do you have something to say first? AMBASSADOR JEFFREY: Yeah, just the Vice President, Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor O’Brien came out here to carry out the President’s directive to get a ceasefire as soon as possible in ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 17 October, 2019 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria
Senior State Department Officials On the Situation in Syria (October 10) MODERATOR: Thanks, everybody, for joining us this afternoon. Sorry to be a few minutes late here at the end of the day, but this is a follow-up from the backgrounder that we had with our State Department bullpen on Monday. We’re going to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 10 October, 2019 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria
Increased Violence in Northwest Syria (April 30) Morgan Ortagus Department Spokesperson Washington, DC April 30, 2019 The United States is alarmed by the escalation of violence in Idlib and northern Hama. Ongoing Russian and regime airstrikes, along with attacks by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other groups connected to Al Qaeda in Syria, continue to destabilize ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 April, 2019 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria
Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on the Political Situation in Syria (February 28) Ambassador Jonathan Cohen Acting Permanent Representative U.S. Mission to the United Nations New York City February 28, 2019 AS DELIVERED Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Special Envoy Pedersen, for being here today. The United States congratulates you on ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 28 February, 2019 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria
Secretary Kerry’s Remarks on Syria (December 15) John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 15, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Hello, everybody. I just wanted to bring you all up to date on what we’ve been trying to do with respect to the tragic situation in Syria, and obviously mostly focused or especially Aleppo. I don’t think ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 15 December, 2016 | Topics: Exclude, News, News from Washington | Tags: Syria
