MESOP FOCUS : Kurds take more Territory in Syria as Government Troops Withdraw
By RUDAW 31-7-2014 – QAMISHLO – Kurdish leaders in Syria said Wednesday they took control of major territories after government troops completely withdrew from Hassakah province.The reason behind the alleged Syrian troop withdrawal is not clear, but leaders of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) said they moved in and took control of many villages before Islamic militants seized the chance.
KURDISTAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEETS IN GERMANY
Kurdistan National Assembly – Syria
Für die Beseitigung des diktatorischen Assad-Regimes
Für Freiheit, Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Für ein föderatives System in Syrien
Einladung
An die Mesopotamische Gesellschaft
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
wir veranstalten am 31. August 2014 in der Stadt Herne-NRW ein eintägiges Diskussionsforum über die aktuelle Lage in Syrien;
die Situation der religiösen und ethnischen Minderheiten und insbesondere des kurdischen Volkes in West-Kurdistan.
Über eure Teilnahme an der Diskussion würden wir uns sehr freuen, da Ihre Gesellschaft eine langjährige Erfahrung in dieser Hinsicht hat.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
01.08.2014
Kurdistan National Assembly – Syria
Dr. Sherkoh Abbas
Washington – USA
MESOP : KAK MESUD SENDS HARDWARE TO SYRIA – KURDISTAN
Barzani tells Peshmerga to protect Syrian Kurdistan
31.07.2014 – Hemin Salih – BasNews, Erbil – In the three-day Eid celebration following the end of Ramadan, Iraqi Kurdistan regional president Massuad Barzani made a presentation for Peshmerga forces currently serving on the frontline, promising to provide them with newer and more progressive weapons to help them in the fight against extremist groups.
MESOP REPORT : Syrian Kurds have appointed an Arab governor in Hasakah province in a bid to garner international support
Wladimir van Wilgenburg – Thursday 31 July 2014 13:59 BST – Middle East Eye
ERBIL – The de-facto Kurdish autonomous administration in Syria has appointed Humaydi Dahmam al-Assi al-Jarba, a cousin of Ahmet Jarba, former head of the Syrian opposition, as a co-governor in the province of Hasakah, to show the world that they do not marginalize minorities.
Khaled Yacoub Oweis – Struggling to Build an Alternative to Assad
MESOP ANALYSIS : GERMAN STIFTUNG WISSENSCHAFT & POLITIK- Structural Flaws and Lack of Protection Undermine Syria’s Opposition Government
SWP Comments 2014/C 35, July 2014, International powers backing the Syrian opposition are turning their attention to an Interim Government founded in November 2013. The February 2014 collapse of the Geneva peace talks, which were supposed to produce a political transition, and growing alarm over chaos in rebel areas and gains by hard-line Islamists, have prompted renewed efforts to help the opposition fill the vacuum left by the collapse of central authority in large parts of Syria.
MESOP Argument : Too Big to Fall Aleppo was the Syrian rebels’ first big prize. If Assad retakes it, is the war as good as over?
BY Hassan Hassan – JULY 30, 2014 – Foreign Policy – Is the Syrian opposition about to lose Aleppo? With the world’s attention focused on the war in Gaza and the aftermath of the downing of a civilian airliner over Ukraine, President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has made great strides in recapturing the country’s largest city.
TODAY’S MESOP IN DEPTH : The Factions of Raqqa Province
29 Jul 2014 02:47 – By Aymenn Jawad Al-TamimiMuch has been noted of the presence of the Islamic State in Raqqa province, where the group controls all major urban localities (Raqqa city, Tabqa, Ma’adan, and Tel Abyad), as well as the Kurdish militias just west of Tel Abyad, from which town they were expelled back in August 2013 on account of cooperation between the Islamic State, Ahrar ash-Sham and other local rebels who have since been subdued by the Islamic State. What then of other groups? Broadly, we can distinguish two kinds: pro-regime forces, and a small rebel insurgency fighting against the Islamic State. They are detailed below. Note that I exclude Jabhat al-Nusra as a separate group here because the history of the group’s presence has been sufficiently well documented before.
MESOP REPORT : Minority Dynamics in Syria
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29 Jul 2014 02:08 AM PDT – By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi With the Syrian civil war well into its fourth year, it is apparent that political and militia dynamics that have developed with Syria’s main minorities (in this analysis, excluding the Kurds)- namely, Alawites, Druze and Christians- have largely remained unchanged and if anything have only solidified. With the Alawites and Druze, political and military dynamics are still largely slanted towards the Assad regime, whose perceived protector status has only been enhanced with the large-scale territorial gains of the Islamic State across eastern Syria. For the Christians, the geographic splits that I documented previously have similarly remained in place. |
Syria: Islamic State ‘decrees’ infibulation for all women
MESOP : STOP FGM IN KURDISTAN
23.7.2014. (ANSAmed) – BEIRUT – An unverified decree dated Monday in the Islamic State (IS), which extends from Aleppo in Syria to Mosul in Iraq, states that all women in the territory must undergo infibulation, or female genital mutilation. The decree was allegedly made by the territory’s self-proclaimed “Caliph” Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. The decree bears the insignia of the IS in Aleppo, in the region of Azaz, north of the northern Syrian city. The text contains a number of typographical errors, and is based on sayings attributed to the Prophet Mohammed. However, the sources used are not those usually cited to support the prophetic validity of the tradition.
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