MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT NEWS
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that Syria will miss the June 30 deadline for the complete elimination of its chemical weapons stockpile. In a May 23 letter to the U.N. Security Council, Ban noted that 7.2 percent of the regime’s declared chemical arsenal remains in Syria and the government insists it doesn’t have control of security in the areas where the materials are stored. He urged Syria to conclude “the remaining removal operations as quickly as possible, as the authorities have pledged to do.” In a speech at West Point, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to increase support for the moderate opposition in Syria’s war though U.S. officials said measures are in the early stages. Meanwhile, a U.S. citizen suspected of involvement with al-Nursa Front has conducted a suicide truck bombing in the northern Idlib province, in what is believed to be the first time an American has participated in such an attack in Syria.
HEAVY FIGHTING NEAR SEREKANIYE – MANY CIVILANS DIED
Avashin @Avashin 6 Std. – Tileliye massacre carried out by ISIS west of SereKaniye. #TwitterKurds pic.twitter.com/GCtvLX2ASW
نركس @daffodil___ @Avashin Serêkaniyê’nin batısında ISID tarafından gerçekleşen Tileliye katliamı. pic.twitter.com/nJEbdhM4Cb
Çatışmaların devam ettiği El-Rewiyê köyü ve sivil katliamının yaşandığı Tileliyê ve Temadê köyleri.. #Serêkaniyê
MESOP FOCUS : Syrian Al-Nusra & ISIS fighters enjoy feasts while civilians starve
By: Laith al-Khatib – al akhbar – Thursday, May 29, 2014 – Damascus countryside: A video clip shot in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus shows the shrouding of an old man who died of hunger. A young man in his prime and in good health appears in the clip standing in front of the emaciated corpse. Looking upset, he mutters “God sufficeth me! Most Excellent is He in whom I trust.” “This is the situation in the Yarmouk camp,” says Amr Shihab, a Palestinian humanitarian relief activist. “Behind the cameras that shoot those dying of starvation and behind the barricades of al-Nusra Front and Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis Brigades, stand individuals that never knew the taste of hunger during this war.”
International: Unesco: Zerstörungen in Syrien mit nichts vergleichbar
Abendzeitung München 29.5.2014 – Paris – Die Zerstörung des syrischen Kulturerbes durch den Bürgerkrieg übertrifft nach Aussagen von Unesco-Vertretern die schlimmsten Erwartungen … http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.international-unesco-zerstoerungen-in-syrien-mit-nichts-vergleichbar.3ffc410c-9ef1-483d-88ce-eb6ded675875.html
…. Aber jeder militärische westliche Akt zur Rettung des Kulturerbes der Menschheit wäre natürlich völlig unverhältnismäßig gewesen (außer denn die Intervention des Iran, der Hezbollah oder von Putin, die politisch korrekt sind.)
MESOP NEWS : ISIS Committing Atrocities Against Civilian Population in Northern Syria
By Jonathan Spyer – PJmedia, 27/5. Co-authored with Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi
Evidence is mounting that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is systematically committing atrocities in eastern and northern Syria, its areas of control.
Rival Kurdish parties battle for power in Syria / By Wladimir van Wilgenburg
MESOP : CENTRALIST DICTATIONS – Accept the Soviets – or your are counterrevolutionary
“They (PYD) only give us permission to operate if we recognize the cantons,” senior KDP-S leader Mohammed Ismail told Al-Monitor in Erbil
LONDON — The Kurdish parties in Iraq and Syria are increasingly engaged in a low-scale cold war. The new power vacuum in the Kurdish areas of Syria has led to an escalation of tit-for-tat arrests, political office closures, expulsions, demonstrations, media campaigns and border closures instead of more cooperation. A series of tit-for-tat incidents has worsened relations between the Kurdistan Workers Party of Abdullah Ocalan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani.
MESOP : BRAVO ! – Kurdish administration in Syria rejects presidential elections
28.05.2014 – BasNews, Syria – The administrations of the three cantons of Syrian Kurdistan – Cizere, Kobani and Afrin – released a statement saying that it is impossible to hold democratic elections under the current circumstances in Syria, adding that it would produce more death and destruction.The three administrations were established in the summer last year by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). In a joint statement published by the pro-PYD news outlet, Hawar News, the administration called for democratic dialogue between the warring factions to end the conflict and reach a political solution.
MESOP LATEST : KDP is seeking more power in Syria Kurdish regions: PKK spokesman to Kurdpress
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
28.5.2014 – Kurdpress – The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is not enjoying a long history in Syria Kurdish regions but is seeking an equal power with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the later party’s Spokesman told Kurdpress in an exclusive interview.
INSS Insight No. 554 : The (Bloody) Return Home: “Syrian Alumni” and the Stability of the Arabian Peninsula
MESOP INSIGHT
by Yoel Guzansky, Yoram Schweitzer, Noa Katzir, and Elad Hochman, INSS – The presence of foreign fighters in Syria and the danger posed by their return to their countries of origin could create a security problem for many countries inside and outside the region, if only because of the large number of combatants and the many different countries from which they come. There is already evidence of “Syrian alumni” becoming involved in terrorist activity in their countries of origin and in various combat zones in the Middle East.
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