AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoWomen’s Empowerment in Motion: In Beirut’s Burj al-Barajneh camp, refugee girls and women are finishing a two-month Brazilian jiu jitsu course that’s framed as more than self-defense—students say it’s changing how they carry themselves in public, speak up, and notice their surroundings. ISIS Return Logistics: A second cohort of “ISIS brides” and children has left Syria’s Al-Roj camp for Damascus after buying plane tickets home to Australia, though at least one person may be blocked from flying due to a temporary exclusion order. Diplomacy Watch: CENTCOM testimony points to a shift toward tighter U.S.-Damascus security cooperation focused on ISIS, border control, and missing Americans—less open-ended crisis management, more targeted files. Human Cost on the Ground: In Daraa, a war remnant explosion killed a child and injured three others, underscoring how unexploded ordnance still haunts daily life. Elections in the Northeast: Voting concluded in Hasakah and Ain al-Arab to fill the final seats in Syria’s first parliament since Assad’s fall, a step toward reintegrating the northeast into state institutions.
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