10,000 Bodies: Inside Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Crackdown
MESOP : NO DEMONSTRATIONS & NO SIGNIFICANT PROTEST BY WESTERN LEFTIES
Photographs of Corpses Offer Evidence of Industrial-Scale Campaign Against Political Opponents by Assad Regime, U.S. Investigators Say
By Adam Entous & Dion Nissenbaum – The Wall Street Journal – At Hospital 601, not far from the presidential palace in Damascus, Syrian guards ran out of space to store the dead and had to use an adjoining warehouse where military vehicles were repaired. A forensic photographer working for Syria’s military police walked the rows and took pictures of the emaciated and disfigured corpses, most believed to be anti-Assad activists. Numbers written on the bodies and on white cards, the photographer said, told regime bureaucrats the identities of the deceased, when they died and which branch of the Syrian security services had held them. (Graphic image follows.)
MESOP: BASHAR GOING DOWN AGAIN – Losses for Syrian regime rise sharply
Marlin Dick| The Daily Star – 25-7-2014 – BEIRUT: Syrian regime forces and allied groups have suffered more than 800 casualties in the last week, a leading anti-regime activist group said Wednesday, amid signs of a “significant” lack of manpower.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a total of 1,769 people lost their lives in the one-week period following President Bashar Assad’s inauguration for a third term July 16.
MESOP LATEST : Dozens of ISIL militants killed in clashes with Kurds in northern Syria
ARA News- 25-7-2014 – Tel Abyad, Syria – Amid clashes between al-Akrad Front Brigade, the Popular Protection Units (YPG) and other Syrian opposition factions on one hand, and al-Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State (previously as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ‘ISIL’) on the other, the latter lost 64 of its militants.The clashes took place during the last three days in Akhtrin town in Kobane’s western environs, north of Syria.YPG Media Center confirmed that the YPG forces regained control in the village of Chel Oghli (25 km west of Kobane).
MESOP FOCUS : Islamic Front rejects rival’s caliphate, as well as proposed emirate in Syria
Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT Long War Journal
The Islamic Front, a coalition of several leading insurgency groups in Syria, has released a statement rejecting the caliphate announced by its rivals in the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot, in late June.
THE STUPIDITY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY / BY MICHAEL M. GUNTER
MESOP ANALYSIS : Michael Gunter about PYD support – we like to listen to the same melody concerning the moderate Syrian anti-Assad Forces
While the PKK link is real and largely explains the PYD’s success in fending off ISIS so far, the PYD is also a moderate secular movement and thus is everything the United States should want to support. (MG)
THE STUPIDITY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
By Professor Michael M. Gunter – Tennessee Technological University – USA
The Dilemmas of the Kurds in Syria
MESOP : GREAT ARTICLE BY OUR FRIEND DAVID ROMANO
By DAVID ROMANO 24-7-2014 – Last week I wrote about the international community’s options of whom to support in Iraq. I did so in multiple choice format, concluding that only the Kurdistan Regional Government appears democratic, worthy and capable of taking on the Islamic State’s Jihadis. Since 2012, however, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s militants have also been fighting Kurds in Syria very actively. Most recently, they used weapons and vehicles captured in Mosul to increase their pressure on Kobane and other cantons controlled by the Kurds of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan).
Solidarität mit Gaza – und Syrien? / AL SHARQ
Von Bodo Straub | 23.07.14 | Israel, Kommentar, Mashreq, Palästina.
In ganz Deutschland demonstrieren Menschen für ein Ende der Gewalt im Gazastreifen. Aber wo waren die Solidaritätsdemonstrationen mit Ägypten, mit dem Irak und vor allem: mit Syrien? Ein Kommentar.
TODAY’S MESOP PORTRAIT OF RAQQA / SYRIA
Life in a Jihadist Capital: Order With a Darker Side / In a Syrian City, ISIS Puts Its Vision Into Practice
By an EMPLOYEE of THE NEW YORK TIMES & BEN HUBBARDJULY 23, 2014
RAQQA, Syria — When his factory was bombed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the businessman considered two bleak options: remain at home and risk dying in the next airstrike, or flee like hundreds of thousands of others to a refugee camp in Turkey.Instead, he took his remaining cash east and moved to a neighboring city, Raqqa, the de facto capital of the world’s fastest growing jihadist force. There he found a degree of order and security absent in other parts of Syria.“The fighting in Syria will continue, so we have to live our lives,” said the businessman, who gave only a first name, Qadri, as he oversaw a dozen workers in his new children’s clothing factory in Raqqa.
POLICY FORUM REPORT – RED LINES: INSIDE THE BATTLE FOR FREEDOM IN SYRIA / WATCH MOVIE
PolicyWatch 2290 – July 22, 2014 – Featuring Mouaz Moustafa, Andrea Kalin & Andrew J. Tabler
On July 9, 2014, Mouaz Moustafa and Andrea Kalin addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute moderated by Andrew Tabler. Moustafa is executive director of the nonprofit Syrian Emergency Task Force. Kalin wrote, codirected, and produced “Red Lines,” a new Syria documentary from Washington-based Spark Media. Tabler is a senior fellow in the Institute’s Program on Arab Politics. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks. ABOUT THE FILM
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