Informed resources in Damascus said that the American school in Damascus has received notification regarding teachers who hold American citizenship to leave Syria within 48 hours. The closing of the school in Damascus is in response to the U.S. raid carried out by U.S. forces on the twenty-sixth of last month, along with the Syrian Government's decision to close the American cultural center.
[T]he crisis of soft power risks accelerating the decline of [U.S.] power in the world, activating and speeding up centrifugal dynamics that might otherwise have taken years to fully manifest.