Syria will receive two electricity-generating ships from Turkey and Qatar to boost power supplies hit by infrastructure damage during the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, an official quoted by state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday ( 07).
Khaled Abu Dai, director-general of the General Electricity Transmission and Distribution Establishment, told SANA that the ships would provide a total of 800 megawatts of electricity, but did not say over what period.
“The extent of damage to generation stations and transformation of electrical connection lines during the period of the old regime is very great, we are seeking to rehabilitate them to transmit energy,” commented Abu Dai.
He did not explain when Syria would receive the two ships.
for transactions with government institutions in Syria for six months after the end of the Assad government to try to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance.
The exemption provides for some energy transactions and personal remittances into the country until July 7. The action did not remove any sanctions.
Syria suffers from severe energy shortages, with state-supplied electricity available for only two or three hours a day in most areas.
The interim government has declared that it intends, within two months, to provide electricity for eight hours a day.
Understand the conflict in Syria
The Assad family regime was overthrown in Syria on December 8, after 50 years in power, when rebel groups took over the capital Damascus.
President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country and is in Moscow after gaining asylum, according to a source in Russia.
Syria’s civil war began during the Arab Spring in 2011, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad suppressed a pro-democracy uprising.
The country was plunged into full-scale conflict when a rebel force was formed, known as the Free Syrian Army, to fight government troops.
Furthermore, the Islamic State, a terrorist group, also managed to gain a foothold in the country and came to control 70% of Syrian territory.
Fighting escalated as other regional actors and world powers — from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States to Russia — joined in, escalating the country’s war into what some observers described as a “proxy war.”
Russia has allied with Bashar al-Assad’s government to combat the Islamic State and rebels, while the United States has led an international coalition to repel the terrorist group.
After a ceasefire agreement in 2020, the conflict remained largely “dormant”, with minor clashes between the rebels and the Assad regime.
More than 300,000 civilians have been killed in more than a decade of war, according to the UN, and millions of people have been displaced across the region.
