MESOP: “The air strikes launched by the United States and allied countries since last night apparently raised morale among the people of Kobane dramatically.” (KOBANE RESIDENTS)
ARA NEWS – 24-9-2014 – On the ground, local activists confirmed for ARA News that all IS-led military operations against the Kurdish city of Kobane (which continued over the last few days) completely stopped on Tuesday.“After days of intensive shelling against residential areas, attacks of the IS extremists were halted today, which is a direct indicator of the success of the first round of U.S.-led air strikes in Syria,” one of the Kobane residents told ARA News. “Some of the displaced people started returning to their houses in Kobane. I can say we are relieved somehow that eventually the international community made up its mind to combat this barbaric group under which we suffered the most over the last few months.”
MESOP : BERLINER ZEITUNG & KRISTIN HELBERG – DIE BESTE KOMMENTATORIN HEUTE
„Man wird den IS nie besiegen können, so lange Assad herrscht“ / Von Mira Gajevic
Die Publizistin Kristin Helberg warnt im Interview davor, über dem Krieg gegen die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat die eigentliche Bedrohung durch den syrischen Diktator Assad zu vergessen.
Die Publizistin Kristin Helberg hat sieben Jahre lang in Syrien gelebt und von dort über das arabischsprachige Land berichtet. So richtig die Luftschläge jetzt seien, der Westen müsse aufpassen, nicht ungewollt Assad zu stärken, warnt die Autorin des Buchs „Brennpunkt Syrien. Einblick in ein verschlossenes Land“ im Interview.
MESOP TODAY’S SUMMARY SYRA (CLICK LINK FOR MORE)
MESOP TODAY’S SUMMARY SYRA (CLICK LINK FOR MORE)
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported several airstrikes in Syria near the Turkish and Iraqi borders. Witnesses said warplanes carried out raids about 20 miles west of the city of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) where an Islamic State offensive last week forced over 130,000 Syrian Kurds to flee to Turkey. Neither the United States nor its allies have confirmed the attacks near the Turkish border however the U.S. led coalition conducted over 200 strikes on Tuesday, targeting training camps and control centers.
MESOP : REDUR XELIL (YPG) RUFT – OBAMA ANTWORTET WIE GEWÜNSCHT / US AIRSTRIKES UM KOBANE
Syrien: Luftangriffe auf IS-Ziele an der türkischen Grenze
Die kurdischen Kämpfer in Syrien erhalten Unterstützung aus der Luft: Die US-geführte Koalition hat Stellungen der IS-Milizen rund um die Grenzstadt Ain al-Arab angegriffen.
DER SPIEGEL ONLINE 24-9-2014 – Hamburg/Beirut – Die US-geführte Koalition gegen die Terrororganisation “Islamischer Staat” hat ihre Angriffe auf Gebiete in Nordsyrien ausgeweitet. Am Mittwochmorgen bombardierten Kampfjets Ziele in der Nähe der Stadt Ain al-Arab, die von ihren kurdischen Einwohnern Kobani genannt wird.
MESOP : US airstrikes target Al Nusrah Front, Islamic State in Syria
24Sep 2014 10:50 AM PDT – THE LONG WAR JOURNAL – The US-led bombing campaign in Syria is targeting the Al Nusrah Front, an official branch of al Qaeda, as well as the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that is one of Al Nusrah’s fiercest rivals.
MESOP : PKK (PYD) GREETING OBAMA WITH SYMPATHY ! (A CASE STUDY OF ‘REVOLUTIONARY’ OPPORTUNISM)
Kurdish-Arab Rebel Alliance May be Key to Obama’s Syrian Strategy
BY MUTLU CIVIROGLU AND WLADIMIR VAN WILGENBURG – ATLANTIC COUNCIL – 24-9-2014 – Now that the anti-ISIS coalition has struck Raqqa in Syria, it must seriously consider the Kurds as its most effective on the ground partners. The Obama administration needs local partners in Iraq and Syria to fight against the jihadist group, the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, ISIL, or the Islamic State) if it hopes to maintain any gains resulting from its attacks on ISIS positions.
MESOP : OBAMA TO REDUR XELIL (PYD) : “YES WE CAN!” Air strikes hit IS jihadists near besieged Kurdish town in Syrian Kurdistan
September 24, 2014 – REUTERS & AFP / BEIRUT,— The US-led coalition has launched raids against jihadists near a Kurdish town in Syrian Kurdistan surrounded by Islamic State fighters, a monitoring group said Wednesday.Planes carried out several strikes on IS positions and supply lines west of the northern border Kurdish town of Kobani [Ain al-Arab], according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The strikes took place just before and after midnight on Wednesday, it said.Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the warplanes that carried out the raids around 30-35 km (19-22 miles) west of the city of Kobani had come from the direction of Turkey.
MESOP : HARD STUFF FOR WESTERN ANTIIMPS & LEFTIES – REDUR XELIL WELCOMES U.S. AIRSTRIKES
US should bomb ISIS positions on the Kobanê front: YPG
Kurdistan Tribune 24-9-2014 – ISIS has responded to the US air strikes in Syria by sending more of its mercenaries to Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) to join the attack on the Kurdish city of Kobanê. “There is a redeployment of (ISIS) from areas that have been hit in the air strikes by the alliance countries towards our areas,” YPG spokesman Redur Xelil told Reuters. “This could lead to increased pressure on our forces if they don’t bomb (ISIS) positions on the Kobanê front”.
MESOP HEADLINE TODAY (II) : ANOTHER NEW SOUND TO OUR WOUNDED EARS
Syrian Foreign Minister Muallem: We Welcome Air Strikes On ISIS, Ground Operation Needed. Today’s agencies 23-9-2014
MESOP FACING KOBANE : FIRST ANALYSIS OF U.S. AIRSTRIKES
“If the airstrikes are a recognition that the United States cannot defeat the Islamic State by fighting it only in Iraq—and leaving it a haven in Syria—they are to be welcomed. As he did in August in Iraq, Mr. Obama would be justified in shaping the campaign to rescue a vulnerable population—in this case the Syrian Kurds,” writes the Washington Post.
“[This] is a strategy of mitigating ISIS’ threats and containing its influence within Iraq and the surrounding region. Yet, while mitigation and containment will drive the U.S. counterterrorism strategy regarding ISIS as a reality, the Obama administration (and Congress and the media) will pretend that the strategic end state is to defeat and destroy them. So when you hear the White House promise to destroy ISIS, don’t believe them, but consider why it is politically mandatory that they make such an outrageous and impossible claim,” writes CFR’s Micah Zenko.
“Early strikes in Raqqa appear so far to focus on fixed infrastructure and other static targets, but given ISIS’s insurgent experience at operating underground, seeking out these fixed targets will yield diminishing returns. Although leadership strikes modeled on U.S. counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and its affiliates could have high political and psychological value, these types of decapitation campaigns are often lengthy, intensive efforts with uncertain results. The significant autonomy enjoyed by ISIS’s ground commanders makes them critically important to their military operations but also potentially resilient to U.S. decapitation efforts,” write Daniel Trombly and Yasir Abbas in the Daily Beast.
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