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Former UK Ambassador Slams Government Statement on Syria’s White Helmets

Peter Ford slammed a UK government statement praising the White Helmets as well as the Israeli operation to whisk them out of Southern Syria.

Former Ambassador to Syria 2003 – 2006, Peter Ford responded to a UK Government statement by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt on the “exceptional” Israeli evacuation of

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May’s Syria Policy Gets Thumbs Down from Bipartisan Group of UK Pols

Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, the U.K. has been an instrumental part of the U.S.-led coalition active in Syria and has also been a major source of funding for armed Syrian opposition groups, having spent millions of pounds on financing such groups — often with terrorist affiliations — since 2012.

LONDON – The Global Network for Syria, which includes a bipartisan group of several British policymakers and former British ambassadors to Syria, has slammed the U.K. government’s current foreign policy on Syria,

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