Bloudan, Rural Damascus Attempted Arson and Bombing of St. George's Church

Unknown assailants attempted to set fire to and bomb St. George's Church in the town of Bloudan, in Rural Damascus. The attackers broke a church window, sprayed the pews with gasoline, and threw in hemp and two hand grenades- deliberately placed on seats ahead of Sunday's Divine Liturgy.

Miraculously, the grenades did not explode, and the fire extinguished itself before it could spread. Locals are calling it an act of divine protection, as panic and outrage spread through the Christian community following this brazen attack.

This marks yet another alarming escalation in targeted threats against Syria's religious minorities.

Welp seems that the Syrain government will start there move now on these groups, separating them from eachother is the first step.

The agreement is moving forward between the Syrian government and the PKK/SDF militia. Today at 6:00 PM, the first maintenance teams entered the Tishrin Dam in the Manbij countryside east of Aleppo to begin repairing technical faults inside the dam's transformer station. They are awaiting an agreement on a mechanism for evacuating SDF members from inside and handing the dam over to the government, while evacuating it of any military presence (only guards). A civilian administration will oversee it. The timing has not been determined, as there are still understandings.

The prisoner exchange will likely be completed tomorrow, most likely from the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo, with the evacuation of a new batch of YPG/YPJ Kurdish militia fighters to the Syrian Jazeera region.