Unstimmige Deklaration: USA besorgt wegen möglicher Restbestände syrischer Chemiewaffen
MESOP : DEN SCHLAMPLADEN AM EAST RIVER (UN) ENDLICH SCHLIESSEN – ES GAB „AUSLASSUNGEN“ (!) BEIM ÜBERPRÜFEN VON ASSADS GIFTGASBESTÄNDEN“
SPIEGEL ONLINE – 5-9-2014 – Inspektor der Organisation für das Verbot chemischer Waffen in Syrien: Noch immer soll es Chemiewaffen im Land geben. In Syrien lagern womöglich noch immer Chemiewaffen. Laut den Vereinten Nationen gibt es Unstimmigkeiten bei der Deklaration der Kampfstoffe. Die USA fürchten, dass Giftgas in die Hände der IS-Milizen gelangen könnte.
MESOP : STRATEGIC OPTIONS CONTRA ASSAD / WHILE STILL RISKY, MILITARY INTERVENTION AGAINST ISIS MAY BE THE ONLY GOOD OPTION
By Matthew Levitt – New York Daily News – September 4, 2014 – In addition to hitting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the United States should target the Assad regime’s military infrastructure to ensure that Damascus cannot take advantage of the situation.There are risks when attacking ISIS, but some more manageable than others. If President Obama is serious that the objective now is to “degrade and destroy” ISIS, then U.S. air strikes must be stepped up against the Islamic State.
MESOP NEWS ROUND UP SYRIA : REBELS VICTORY OF QUNEITRA OPENS PATH TO GHOUTA
4-9-2014 – “The Chargers at Dawn” battle, which aims to capture several regime-controlled areas in Quneitra province and advance northeast into the rebel-held Damascus suburbs of West Ghouta, was announced by various FSA factions in a statement Thursday. “If we win the points we’re trying to capture, the FSA will be in the proximity of West Ghouta,” Locka al-Zoubi, head of the Ababil Houran Battalions’ media office, told Syria Direct Thursday.
MESOP : THE ISIS CANTONS IN SYRIA – In Northeast Syria, Islamic State Builds a Government
By Mariam Karouny – 2014-09-04 07:16 GMT – (Reuters) — In the cities and towns across the desert plains of northeast Syria, the ultra-hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has insinuated itself into nearly every aspect of daily life. The group famous for its beheadings, crucifixions and mass executions provides electricity and water, pays salaries, controls traffic, and runs nearly everything from bakeries and banks to schools, courts and mosques. While its merciless battlefield tactics and its imposition of its austere vision of Islamic law have won the group headlines, residents say much of its power lies in its efficient and often deeply pragmatic ability to govern.
A STRATEGY FOR BEATING THE ISLAMIC STATE / By Dennis Ross
OP-EDS AND ARTICLES FROM THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
By Dennis Ross – Politico – September 2, 2014 – Since containment is no longer a viable option, Washington must build a regional coalition of the willing to roll back the terrorist group.
MESOP : STORIES FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES & SIDES / YPG PREVENTS AID TO YEZIDI
Heard the same story today from someone who just came from Sinjar:
After Kurdish Peshmerga forces, working with a special force of Kurdish Yazidis, found a way to rescue the refugees on Sinjar Mountain, they have discovered that members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have settled on the mountain and formed a youth movement. Peshmerga Forces Commander on Sinjar Mountain, Qasim Shasho, told BasNews that the YPG, the military wing of Democratic Union Party (PYD), has been forcing Yazidi youths to join the movement.
MESOP REPORT ON WEST KURDISTAN – The Course OF Fighting In Kobanê In August (PYD)
THE ROJAVA REPORT (YPG) 3-9-2014 The YPG Press Center has released a statement in which they summarized the course of fighting between YPG forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) in the Kobanê Canton of Rojava over the month of August, according to a report from ANHA carried by Yeni Özür Politika. According to the report 63 ISIS fighters were killed in fighting in Kobanê over the month of August. 8 members of the YPG and allied groups also lost their lives.
MESOP : PYD/YPG (PKK) JOINT FRONT WITH ASSAD’S ARMY
Assad Regime intensifies assault on Ghweiran / PYD
Regime and PYD forces attempted Wednesday to break the holdout neighborhood of Ghweiran in Al-Hasakah city from several fronts, chiefly from the east and north, an activist who asked to be identified as Amir told Syria Direct. As of publishing, regime and PYD soldiers were still battling for the neighborhood.
Regime seeks to break holdout neighborhood / PYD
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) -MESOP : News Roundup Syria – : Tuesday, September 2
Regime warplanes initiated several airstrikes on the holdout neighborhood of Ghweiran in the joint regime-PYD controlled city of al-Hasakah Tuesday, hitting the district with artillery shells from nearby Jabal al-Kawkab, according to the pro-opposition monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The attacks follow reported attempts by PYD forces to storm Ghweiran from the north, resulting in an unspecified number of PYD and resident casualties along the neighborhood’s northern rim.
MESOP : DEUTSCHE RAKETEN SCHON VOR ORT
IS-Terroristen erbeuten in Syrien deutsche Raketen
Die Terroristen des Islamischen Staats haben bei der Eroberung des Luftwaffenstützpunkts Takba in Syrien offenbar deutsches Kriegsgerät erbeutet: In einem Video sind Raketen aus Deutschland zu sehen.
Im Internet ist ein Video der Terrorgruppe Islamischer Staat (IS) aufgetaucht, das veranschaulichen soll, wie schnell deutsches Kriegsmaterial in den Wirren eines Bürgerkrieges in die falschen Hände gelangen können: Die Dschihadisten hatten in der vergangenen Woche nach tagelangen Kämpfen den Luftwaffenstützpunkt Takba nahe der Stadt Rakka im Norden Syriens erobert. Und anschließend offenbar Dutzende Regierungssoldaten hingerichtet. Der Flugplatz war die letzte Stellung des syrischen Regimes in der weitestgehend von Dschihadisten kontrollierten Region.
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