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I see what you mean. I decided it was over my head as I really don’t have a good way to verify what is being said.

I decided to gather a little bit of info on the Red Crescent in Syria, then I’ll probably turn in too. Perhaps there may be something here of use to the ones who take up the torch.

RED CRESCENT web site - their own PR:
http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/where-we-work/middle-east-and-north-africa/syrian-arab-red-crescent/

WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Arab_Red_Crescent

…”The organisation is working in the Syrian Civil War and is engaged in evacuation of people from war torn region to other places. It is shifting people and militants who surrender and relocates to other place. When Darayya surrendered to government forces, the militants were relocated by the red crescent….”

SPUTNIK NEWS
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201803111062422622-syria-red-crescent-un-convoy/

MIDDLE EAST
21:52 11.03.2018(updated 21:58 11.03.2018)

“BEIRUT (Sputnik) - The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) on Sunday said it was working together with the United Nations to send a new humanitarian convoy to Afrin and Tall Rifat in northern Syria.

“In response to the increasing humanitarian pressing needs in Efreen [Afrin] and Tall Refa’t [Tall Rifat] in North Syria, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) is working with the United Nations to enter this area with emergency humanitarian aid and supplies. This comes as a rapid response after the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) delivered a convoy to the same areas on March 1st 2018,” the statement said.

The SARC also called on all involved parties to ensure security for aid workers and volunteers delivering humanitarian assistance to civilians....”

RT.COM
https://www.rt.com/news/423539-red-crescent-ghouta-no-chemical/

“Red Crescent found no trace of previous ‘Ghouta chem attack’ used by US to blame Damascus & Moscow
Published time: 9 Apr, 2018 01:26”

FILE PHOTO: A Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteer talks to a child on an evacuation bus before leaving the town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, on March 13, 2018. © Samer Bouidani / Global Look Press

“A former US secretary of state famously blamed Moscow for being ‘ultimately responsible’ for every chemical incident in Syria, after reports of a chorine attack in Ghouta in January. The incident, it now turns out, never happened.

The reports about an alleged chlorine gas attack that, supposedly, affected more than 20 civilians on January 22, were dismissed by the medical specialists of the Red Crescent, who worked in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta for many years. The doctors said they found no traces of the use of any chemical agent at that time....”