MESOP : Syrien – Folter und massenhaftes Sterben in syrischen Gefängnissen (Human Rights Watch)
MESOP : KEINE TON VON ATTAC – OCCUPY – IPPNW – FRIEDENSBEWEGUNG – LINKSPARTEI e tutti quanti
Epoch Times, Donnerstag, 14. August 2014 13:15 – Menschenrechtler beklagen ein Massensterben in Gefängnissen des Bürgerkriegslands Syrien. Wie die Organisation Human Rights Watch am Donnerstag unter Berufung auf vier Ex-Häftlinge und Schilderungen eines desertierten Soldaten berichtete, starben im Sednaja-Gefängnis bei Damaskus zahlreiche Insassen infolge von Schlägen, Folter, Unterernährung und Krankheiten.
Syria: Kurdish fighter captured by Arab militia, demands YPG to halt operations
August 14, 2014 – ARA News – Qamishli, Syria – On Wednesday, clashes renewed between the Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) and Arab rebels of Ahrar Geweran in the city of Hasakah, northeast of Syria. The clashes coincided with artillery shelling by pro-Assad army on Geweran. Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, media activist Ismail al-Ali said that several civilians were killed in Geweran due to artillery shelling on the neighbourhood on Wednesday.
MESOP FLASH : Al-Hasakah district holds out as regime, PYD bombard
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – SYRIA DIRECT 13-8-2014 – Regime forces and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) continued their bombardment of a holdout district in the northeastern city of al-Hasakah, marking the fourth consecutive day of fighting in the neighborhood. The PYD and regime forces engaged in fierce clashes with Ghweiran residents Tuesday night in a failed attempt to storm the neighborhood. The fighters are now independent, but many were with the FSA and the district is supportive of the Free Syrian Army.
Fresh violence hit Syria’s Hasakah / YPG SHELLING ARAB POPULATION
August 13, 2014 – ARA News – Hasakah, Syria – A state of panic prevailed on Tuesday among the residents of Geweran neighbourhood in the city of Hasakah, northeast of Syria, a source in Geweran told ARA News, accusing the Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) of carrying out military operations against the Arab-populated neighbourhood.
MESOP LATEST : KURDISH PYD/YPG – OUR “COOPERATION WITH ASSAD A HUMANITARIAN DUTY”!
Our forces protect civilians not the Syrian regime: PYD official
August 12, 2014 – ARA News – Exclusive – Hasakah, Syria – Following days of clashes at the outskirts of Hasakah city in northeastern Syria, militants of the al-Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State (IS) failed so far in entering the city. Military forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) –linked to the Democratic Union Party (PYD)– took turns in fighting against IS militants in Hasakah environs, preventing the advance of the latter towards the city.
TODAY’S MESOP FOCUS : ON ALEPPO’S CHRISTIANS – A REPORT
Aleppo’s forgotten Christians / By Edward Dark – Al Monitor 12-8-2014 – ALEPPO, Syria — Walking through the largely Christian neighborhoods of Aleppo city — Azizieh, Siryan, Sulaimaniyah and Midan — you can still see the posters of the two bishops kidnapped by Islamist militants last year hanging on shop windows, walls and even cars. The people here haven’t forgotten them; the event is still as painful and fresh as if it had happened just yesterday. The bishops’ kidnapping was a symbolic event, indicative of the larger collapse of interfaith communal relations in a country under the strain of a sectarian civil war, and marked the end of a long era of relative peace and safety for the Christians of Syria.
MESOP NEWS ROUND UP SYRIA : “REVOLUTIONARY PYD” BOMBS DEMOCRATIC SYRIAN FORCES JOINTLY TOGETHER WITH ASSAD CRIMINALS
Regime, PYD forces seek to rout FSA in al-Hasakah / SYRIA DIRECT 12.8.2014 – “KILLING WOMEN & CHILDREN”
Regime forces and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) bombarded a holdout district still supporting the FSA in al-Hasakah city Monday night and Tuesday morning after attempting to capture it over the weekend.“Fifty mortars were launched from the military base and al-Ghazal Circle checkpoint, 15 artillery shells from Jabal al-Kawkab, and more than ten tank shells” struck the neighborhood, Ahmed al-Jazrawai, a civilian present in the Ghweiran neighborhood at the time told Syria Direct, adding that 20 were wounded, including women and children.
MESOP : YPG / PYD – COOPERATION NOT WITH ISIS – BUT WITH ASSAD : REDUR KHALIL
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – YPG spokesman: our cooperation with Syrian regime is logical under current conditions
August 9, 2014 – ARA News – Hasakah, Syria – Clashes renewed on Friday between militants of the Islamic State (IS) on the one hand, and Kurdish fighters of the Popular Protection Units and the Syrian regime forces on the other hand, in Geweran neighbourhood of Hasakah city. northeast Syria.
MESOP SAMPLER SYRIA / WEST KURDISTAN – WITH SCOTT LUCAS – CHARLES LISTER et. al..
Syria Daily: Assad Regime Keeps Silent About Advances by Islamic State & Insurgents
By Scott Lucas August 9, 2014 07:49 Updated – LATEST: Video — Friday’s Demonstration in Insurgent-Held Salaheddin Section of Aleppo
Days after the loss of a major military bases and pressure on its most important airports, the Assad regime is still keeping quiet. This week the jihadist Islamic State quickly overran the Regiment 93 base near Raqqa in northern Syria, following up its capture of the Regiment 121 base and leaving the regime with only one significant position — the Taqba airbase — in Raqqa Province.
Insurgents have moved within a few kilometers of Hama Military Airport, firing rockets into the complex, and Hama city in central Syria. Near the capital, they have moved towards Damascus International Airport, hoping to cut highways and put pressure on operations such as the transport of foreign fighters and Iranian weapons and supplies.
MESOP : ACTUAL SITUATION MAP / CONTROL OF TERRAIN SYRIA (BY ISW)
by Carlo Darouni, Dana Hadra, and Joseph Sax
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