KURDWATCH NEWS LETTER JULI 2014 / Repressionen gegen Kurdische Parteien durch PYD / YPG
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ʿAin al‑ʿArab: PYD entführt fünfzehn Mitglieder der PDK‑S
KURDWATCH, 7. August 2014 – Am 4. August 2014 haben Kämpfer der Volksverteidigungseinheiten (YPG) der Partei der Demokratischen Union (PYD) mit etwa fünfzehn Fahrzeugen das fünfzehn Kilometer südlich von ʿAin al‑ʿArab (Kobanî) gelegene Dorf Kaifun gestürmt, wo Mitglieder der Demokratischen Partei Kurdistans – Syrien (PDK‑S) ein politisches Seminar organisierten. Die Anwesenden wurden brutal geschlagen, fünfzehn Teilnehmer entführt, kurdische Fahnen sowie Plakate eingesammelt und verbrannt. Nach wenigen Stunden wurden dreizehn Personen freigelassen. Die Freigelassenen berichteten, erneut geschlagen worden zu sein. Die beiden PDK‑S-Mitglieder Muslim Muhammad und ʿUthman Zaitu werden nach wie vor festgehalten.
KURDWATCH NEWSLETTER JULY 2014 / HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY PYD / YPG (READ FULL REPORT)
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ʿAyn al‑ʿArab: PYD kidnaps fifteen members of the PDK‑S
KURDWATCH, August 7, 2014—On August 4, 2014, fighters for the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) People’s Defense Units (YPG) stormed the village of Kayfun, fifteen kilometers south of ʿAyn al‑ʿArab (Kobanî), with approximately fifteen vehicles. Members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Syria (PDK‑S) had organized a political seminar there. Those present at the seminar were brutally beaten. Fifteen participants were kidnapped and Kurdish flags and banners were confiscated and burned. A few hours later, thirteen people were released. Those released reported that they had been beaten again while being detained. The two PDK‑S-members Muslim Muhammad and ʿUthman Zaytu are still being held.
MESOP : OBAMA’S DECISION ON ASSAD (FACING PUTIN) – U.S. Rules Out Working With Syria’s Assad to Counter al Qaeda
By Adam Entous – WALL STREET JOURNAL – 7-8-2014 – The Obama administration has ruled out the possibility of working with the Assad regime in Syria to counter the threat posed by al Qaeda-linked militants, rebuffing suggestions that the U.S. might have to consider a counter-terrorism partnership with the regime.
MESOP : Islamic State to control last stronghold of Syria rebels in Deir ez-Zor
August 7, 2014 – ARA News – Deir ez-Zor, Syria – After al-Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State (IS) seized the town of Jerzri, Shannan and Swaidan in the eastern countryside of Syria’s Deir ez-Zour, IS militants advanced towards al-Shaitat area, which includes the towns of Abu Hammam, al-Kishkiya and Gharanij.Sources in Shaitat told ARA News that that fierce clashes broke out in the area between militants of the Islamic state and armed members of Shaitat clan, “who tried to defend civilians against IS extremists”.
MESOP INSIDE : IS to al-Hasakah youth: ‘Repent’ / Click bottom link for watching document
An announcement attributed to the Islamic State (IS) began circulating on social media Monday warning residents of the northeastern city of al-Hasakah of an upcoming attack, and calling on young men to report to IS headquarters to “repent.”
ISIS Military Success: A Multiple Threat – PolicyWatch 2297 – August 5, 2014 – By James F. Jeffrey
MESOP ANALYSIS OF NEAR EAST POLICY FROM THE SCHOLARS AND ASSOCIATES OF THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE
The United States should be launching selective airstrikes on ISIS sooner rather than later, particularly where the movement attacks key dams and minority populations.
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has demonstrated remarkable strategic mobility and operational speed in a series of offensives over the past few weeks across its operating areas in Iraq and Syria. These have included:
Foreign Policy: The Islamic State Is the Newest Petrostate
MESOP FLASH : ALLAH’S OWN OILTRADE
Keith Johnson – Foreign Policy – The Islamic State, the world’s richest terror group, is reaping millions of dollars a day from selling stolen oil to shady businessmen across the Middle East.
The homicidal maniacs of the Islamic State, like many shady and not-so-shady groups before it, are apparently getting into the oil business. And it seems to suit them as they reportedly are making millions of dollars per day off of it.
MESOP WEST KURDISTAN SYRIA : THE DAILY BEAST – Up to 2000 killed – But no worldwide reaction
5-8-2014 – MESOP – More than 130 civilians were killed over the weekend by Syrian regime forces across the country, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog group. The reports will be read alongside figures estimating that more than 1,800 people have been killed in Syria in the last ten days, just weeks after Bashar al-Assad was sworn in to a third seven-year term. Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee heard testimony from a Syrian defector who told lawmakers that more than 150,000 civilians are at risk of torture and death in Syrian jails. The defector, who appeared on Capitol Hill in disguise for security reasons, presented a collection of photographs taken in Syria, which, per the Daily Beast, catalogued “the torture, starvation, and death of over 11,000 civilians.”
MESOP : ISIS GOVERNANCE IN SYRIA
By Charles C. Caris & Samuel Reynolds / Institute for the study of war
The Islamic State’s June 2014 announcement of a “caliphate” is not empty rhetoric. In fact, the idea of the caliphate that rests within a controlled territory is a core part of ISIS’s political vision. The ISIS grand strategy to realize this vision involves first establishing control of terrain through military conquest and then reinforcing this control through governance. This grand strategy proceeds in phases that have been laid out by ISIS itself in its publications, and elaborates a vision that it hopes will attract both fighters and citizens to its nascent state. The declaration of a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, however, raises the question: can ISIS govern?
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