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🇸🇾📊☪️🇮🇷✝️ — 📰 ZeroHedge | Visualizing Syria's Sectarian Divides | March 16, 2025:

"Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed off on a constitutional declaration for a five-year-long transitional period on Thursday, hoping to centralize power in order to unify the country. Al-Sharaa is the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Islamist political organization and former insurgent group that spearheaded the lightning offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad on December 8. The constitution pledges freedom of speech, rights for women and media freedom and states that any calls for “division and separatism, requests for foreign intervention or reliance on foreign powers are criminalized.”

Al-Sharaa faces the challenges of a country that has been deeply divided along ethnic and regional lines through a bitter 14-year civil war, with many still wary of the intentions of new leadership. While he has made some headway in cooperation in the past week, having signed a pact to integrate the autonomous institutions of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the north and north east of the country into the government, the declaration for the new short-term constitution has also been rejected by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council, who state that more needs to be done to protect the rights of diverse communities.

As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, large swathes of the country are still governed by different sects, with each region home to different concentrations of ethnic groups."

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🇺🇸 An update on U.S. aircraft carriers

• 3x deployed: Truman in Red Sea, Vinson in WESTPAC, Washington forward in Japan

• 4x active/available: Ford completing COMPTUEX in the Atlantic, Lincoln & Roosevelt in San Diego, Nimitz in Bremerton

• 1x sea trials: Bush in the Atlantic

• 3x maintenance: Reagan in Puget Sound, Ike in Norfolk, Stennis in Newport News

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🇾🇪❌🇺🇸❗️ — Iranian-backed Houthi* group to Reuters:

We are now officially at war with the United States and have no intention of scaling back their military actions in the Red Sea.

* — (designated as a terror organization in the U.S.)

📈 The Kobeissi Letter on X:

The bull market in gold has been truly historic:

Gold has added ~$5.0 trillion in market value over the 12 months and is now worth a record $20.1 trillion.

Over the last 6 years, gold's market cap has risen by nearly $12 trillion, or 148%.

In 2025 alone, gold prices have risen ~12% and marked multiple new all time highs.

Furthermore, the gold to CPI ratio has hit a record 9.2x.

This exceeds previous peaks of 8.4x and 8.1x posted in 1980 and 2011.

Gold is making history.

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🇺🇸📞🇷🇺 — The phone call between U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has ended after over 2 hours, with US President Trump expected to issue a statement on their conversation soon.

🇷🇺📞🇺🇦🇺🇸 — Kremlin to Russian State media:

President Putin informed Trump that on March 19, a 175-for-175 prisoner exchange would take place between the Russian and Ukrainian sides.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🏒 — Kremlin to Russian State media:

Trump backed Putin's idea of organising ice hockey games in the US between Russia and US players.

🗣📞🗣 — ⚡️ Kremlin:

"Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump

🔹The leaders continued a detailed and frank exchange of views on the situation around Ukraine. Vladimir Putin expressed gratitude to Donald Trump for his desire to help achieve the noble goal of ending hostilities and human losses.

🔹Having confirmed his fundamental commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict, the Russian President declared his readiness to work together with his American partners to thoroughly explore possible ways of resolving the conflict, which should be comprehensive, sustainable and long-term. And, of course, to take into account the absolute need to eliminate the root causes of the crisis, and Russia's legitimate interests in the field of security.

🔹In the context of the US President's initiative to introduce a 30-day ceasefire, the Russian side outlined a number of significant points regarding ensuring effective control over a possible ceasefire along the entire line of combat contact, the need to stop forced mobilization in Ukraine and rearm the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Serious risks associated with the inability to negotiate of the Kyiv regime, which has repeatedly sabotaged and violated the agreements reached, were also noted. Attention was drawn to the barbaric terrorist crimes committed by Ukrainian militants against the civilian population of the Kursk region.

🔹It was emphasized that the key condition for preventing the escalation of the conflict and working towards its resolution through political and diplomatic means should be the complete cessation of foreign military assistance and the provision of intelligence information to Kyiv.

🔹In connection with Donald Trump's recent appeal to spare the lives of Ukrainian servicemen surrounded in the Kursk region, Vladimir Putin confirmed that the Russian side is ready to be guided by humanitarian considerations and, in the event of surrender, guarantees the lives and decent treatment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in accordance with Russian laws and international law.

🔹During the conversation, Donald Trump put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict to mutually refrain from attacks on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. Vladimir Putin responded positively to this initiative and immediately gave the Russian military the corresponding order.

🔹The Russian President also responded constructively to Donald Trump's idea of ​​implementing a well-known initiative concerning the safety of navigation in the Black Sea. It was agreed to begin negotiations to further elaborate specific details of such an agreement.

🔹Vladimir Putin informed that on March 19, a prisoner exchange will be carried out between the Russian and Ukrainian sides - 175 for 175 people. In addition, as a gesture of goodwill, 23 seriously wounded Ukrainian servicemen who are being treated in Russian medical institutions will be transferred.

🔹The leaders confirmed their intention to continue efforts to achieve a Ukrainian settlement in a bilateral mode, including taking into account the above-mentioned proposals of the US President. For this purpose, Russian and American expert groups are being created."

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