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Al-Assad’s Regime Blows Political Solution | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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Syrian authorities did not provide any explanation


 Syrian authorities did not provide any explanation

Syrian authorities did not provide any explanation


The Syrian regime’s forces stopped Ahmad al-Asrawi and Munir al-Bitar, members of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCCDC), as they were about to cross the Syria-Lebanon border en route to Saudi Arabia to join fellow members of the opposition’s supreme committee for negotiations to participate in meeting scheduled on Sunday.

The Syrian authorities did not provide any explanation for the reason of the arrest, considered a major blow to efforts made to reach a political solution to the Syria crisis, the first steps of which were ratified by UN resolution 2254.
For its part, the NCCDC released a statement saying that the arbitrary arrest countered political efforts made by the international community and the International Working Group. It stressed that the arrest would undermine Security Council resolution 2254 of 2015 to complete negotiations to reach a political solution.

Meanwhile, a report released by the US publication The Daily Beast indicated that many Hezbollah fighters have refused to continue volunteering to prop up the embattled government of Bashar al-Assad. The report adds that Hezbollah’s reservists are no longer willing to die in Syria’s unending, bloody civil war.

One Hezbollah member, Jaafar, joined Hezbollah’s Resistance Brigades—the movement’s non-Shia volunteer fighting force—to confront Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon. Since then, he continued to serve, including 15 deployments to Syria, but he doesn’t want to fight a war that he sees no way out of.

Jaafar adds: “I joined to fight Israel, why should I die in Syria? It’s a lost battle, we have lost thousands”. He also said that he felt like he is one of their mercenaries.