New York (ST): Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr. Faisal Miqdad, affirmed that the United States is obligated to withdraw its forces from Syria.

Miqdad told Russia 24 TV channel: "The presence of US forces in Syria is illegal and they should leave as soon as possible."

Mikdad added that if they don't, they will end up the same as in Afghanistan or any other country.

Miqdad and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed during their meeting yesterday in New York the need to end the illegal foreign presence on Syrian territory and to continue fighting terrorism until its complete elimination and the lifting of unilateral coercive measures on Syria. 

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Deir Ezzour (ST): A gunman from the “SDF” militia backed by the American occupation forces was shot dead in the city of Al-Busaira in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzour.

Local sources said that "popular factions directly fired at one of the SDF militiamen near the park in the city of Al-Busaira, east of Deir Ezzour, killing him instantly."

Attacks continue on the movements and locations of the SDF militiamen within their areas of deployment in the Syrian Jazira due to their terrorist practices and theft of national wealth in cooperation with the American occupation forces and depriving the people of them, as dozens of them were killed and injured during the past weeks in the areas occupied by the militia in the Syrian Jazira.

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Deir Ezzour: The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Eng. Muhammad Hassan Qatna, was briefed during a field tour to Deir Ezzour governorate about the areas planted with strategic crops, and the problems and difficulties that the agricultural process suffers in general, in addition to the reality of livestock in the governorate. 

Minister Qatna's tour included a visit to the field school, the food processing center in the Al-Baghilia neighborhood, the adoption center for fodder, and a meeting with a number of sheep breeders and farmers in the cotton and cornfields, in addition to holding an expanded meeting for the agricultural council in the governorate.

The farmers’ demands focused on securing production requirements such as fertilizers and fuels, securing irrigation water and electric motors to draw irrigation water from the Euphrates River, helping in insect control, treating cotton seed germination rates, establishing a corn dryer in the governorate, and increasing the allocations of rationed fodder in light of the scarcity of pastures.

Qatna explained that the ministry is working to return agricultural lands in the areas liberated from terrorism to the production process and to include it in the agricultural plan and to provide support and production requirements to farmers in those areas to help them continue and settle in their villages and lands, pointing out that all production requirements have been secured. 

Qatna indicated that the support for the prices of production requirements will be around 15 percent of their market price.

The Minister of Agriculture noted that the available quantities of fuel are secured to irrigate these crops in cooperation with the fuel committee in the governorate, indicating that all expenses incurred by the farmer will be noted during the setting of crop prices.

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