Al Mayadeen English

  • Ar
  • Es
  • x
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Features
  • Videos
    • NewsFeed
    • Video Features
    • Explainers
    • TV
    • Digital Series
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Features
Videos
  • NewsFeed
  • Video Features
  • Explainers
  • TV
  • Digital Series
Infographs
In Pictures
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • MENA
  • Palestine
  • US & Canada
BREAKING
Algerian Foreign Ministry: The Algerian President directs Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf to head to Niamey as soon as possible
Algerian Foreign Ministry: Niger’s acceptance of the Algerian initiative strengthens the option of a political solution to end the crisis
Algerian Foreign Ministry: Algeria received official approval from Niger concerning the Algerian mediation initiative to resolve the crisis
Armenia says Azerbaijani forces open fire in border region
Al Mayadeen's correspondent: Israeli Supreme Court decides to return the case of prisoner Kayed al-Fafsous to the Military Court of Appeals
Egyptian media, citing medical sources: Ambulances transported about 100 injuries to hospitals as a result of the Ismailia Security Directorate fire
Egyptian media: The number of people injured in the Ismailia Security Directorate fire has risen to 21 people, some of whom are in critical condition.
Turkey carried out air strikes in northern Iraq and destroyed 20 PKK targets: Turkish MoD
Al Mayadeen's correspondent: Turkish warplanes carry out an air strike that targeted the Matin area in Dohuk, northern Iraq
Israeli media: The settlers wrote the word “revenge” in the site and uprooted dozens of olive trees

Damascus slams Netherlands over its support of terror groups in Syria

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 13 Dec 2022 20:39
  • 1 Shares
  • x

The Syrian Foreign Ministry slams the Dutch government over its involvement in assisting terror organizations in Syria under the guise of providing humanitarian aid.

  • Damascus slams Netherlands in supporting terror activities in Syria
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates building

Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement on Tuesday that what was revealed in a report published on December 12 by the UNHR's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic on non-lethal assistance regarding the involvement of the Dutch government in supporting terror groups in Syria, was merely one of the many political, moral, and legal crime committed by the European state.

“This Commission admitted that the support provided by the Dutch government to the so-called 'opposition armed groups in Syria' goes against international law," the statement read.

"Dutch public opinion was manipulated to disguise the fact that the materials provided were used in combat and to conceal their transfer to terrorist organizations,” it further said.

The Ministry added that "the report confirms again the credibility of what Syria has said repeatedly about the involvement of the Western states, including the Netherlands, in providing support to terror groups in Syria under various pretexts."

"Syria calls on the international community to hold those states accountable for their violations of international law, including international humanitarian law along with all violations related to the Security Council's resolutions, and to put an end to using 'combating terrorism' as a pretext by those states to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries,” the Ministry concluded.

Related News

Dutch prosecutors warned Rotterdam Uni about shooter beforehand

Netherlands to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in 2024: Dutch MoD

Read more: Turkey ready to cooperate with Syria on refugees, 'counterterrorism'

In 2018, Hollandic sources reported that the Dutch government has been providing equipment to an armed group in Syria that has been branded a terrorist organization by the public prosecution department, namely the Jabhat Al-Shamiya.

The Dutch government reportedly provided uniforms and pick-up trucks to the group, according to the Dutch affairs program Nieuwsuur.

The materials were sent to the group as part of a covert operation of providing "non-lethal" assistance to 22 terror groups in Syria from 2015 up to the beginning of 2018.

According to the Dutch public prosecutor, the Jabhat Al-Shamiya is "salafist and jihadistic," "strives for the setting up of the caliphate," and can be qualified as nothing else but a "criminal organization of terrorist intent."

Read more: Syria 'conflict very active' in light of stalemate: UN envoy

  • Netherlands
  • Damascus
  • Syrian Foreign Minister

Most Read

BBC from the front lines in Ukraine: It's bad, counteroffensive failed

BBC from the front lines in Ukraine: It's bad, counteroffensive failed

  • Europe
  • 28 Sep 2023
Who Would Ally with the West: ‘It’s Boring – The Real Excitement is in Asia’

Who Would Ally with the West: ‘It’s Boring – The Real Excitement is in Asia’

  • Analysis
  • 30 Sep 2023
A Ukrainian soldier of the elite drone unit packs up after an attack on the front line in the outskirts of Kremennaya, Ukraine, Sunday, August 20, 2023 (AP)

Ukraine loses around 700 soldiers in one day: Russia MoD

  • Europe
  • 30 Sep 2023
US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

'Not 1 more cent': Americans are done with funding Ukraine's paychecks

  • Europe
  • 30 Sep 2023

Coverage

All
Morocco & Libya Disasters

Read Next

All
Gebran Bassil, President of the Lebanese Free Patriotic Movement Party, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022 (AP)
MENA

Lebanon besieged, anti-Syria conspiracy defeated militarily: FPM chief

Syrian women and children walk after crossing the border into the northern town of Bukayaa, Lebanon, Friday, April 29, 2011 (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
MENA

Lebanese army stops 1,200 Syrian refugees from crossing into Lebanon

Sayyed Nasrallah
MENA

Resistance shall never abandon Al-Ghajar village: Sayyed Nasrallah

Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • x
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS