THE LETTER ON THE WALL : THIS HOUSE IS CONFISCATED BY PYD ASHAYISH
الآسايش تستولي على منازل المدنيين في رأس العين/سري كانييه
الصورة بعدسة: إسماعيل شر
Wars Within Wars / Jonathan Spyer in Weekly Standard
MESOP : In change of political direction – Naïve American conservative Magazines & Israeli Ressource persons recently in love with PKK / PYD
In northern Syria, the Kurds try to carve out a territory & fend off the jihadists
May 26, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 35 • By JONATHAN SPYER – Kobani, Syrian Kurdish Region – With Syrian presidential elections scheduled for June, the incumbent and shoo-in for reelection, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, is campaigning on the promise that 2014 will be the year in which military operations in Syria end. However, the situation in northern Syria, exemplified by the conflict in the canton of Kobani, an area stretching from the Turkish border to south of Kobani city, and from Tell Abyad in the east to Jarabulus in the west, casts doubt on Assad’s optimism.
Friends of Syria Core Group of countries – London 11 Final Communiqué (May 15, 2014)
This communiqué was agreed by the Ministers of the London 11 countries at a meeting held in London on 15 May 2014.
1. We the countries of the “London 11” Core Group of the Friends of Syria denounce the Assad regime’s unilateral plan to hold illegitimate presidential elections on 3 June.
MESOP Mapping Syria ~ May 2014
Map by Thomas van Linge – Date May 15, 2014A lot happened since the last map was published; most importantly Homs, once called the capital of the revolution, surrendered to the SAA and Hezbollah. The rebel / Jihādī offensive in the North-Western province of Latakia was pushed back by the SAA and NDF forces. The infighting and ideological strife between Jabhat an-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria) and ISIS reached new heights, thus leading to some shifts in rebel controlled territory. Furthermore, the campaign by ISIS against Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) is still ongoing.
MESOP PUBLICATION RELEASE – BETWEEN NOT-IN AND ALL-IN: U.S. Military Options in Syria
CHANDLER ATWOOD, JOSHUA BURGESS, MICHAEL EISENSTADT & JOSEPH WAWRO
POLICY NOTE 18 • MAY 2014 – The war in Syria has left more than 150,000 dead and more than 9 million displaced. With diplomacy and sanctions having failed to achieve their objectives, the Obama administration is reportedly considering a more proactive role in the conflict. The impulse to refrain from military intervention remains understandable, but the costs of nonintervention may be even steeper: an al-Qaeda foothold and expanded Iranian influence in the Levant, a new generation of jihadists poised to migrate to other conflicts, social tensions and political instability in neighboring states, and growing doubts about U.S. credibility. Nor does military intervention necessarily imply boots on the ground. Many options entail lower levels of force, including strengthened sanctions and cyberoperations, force build-ups, or an enhanced effort to equip and train the moderate opposition. The window may have closed for seeking a positive outcome in Syria, but by acting wisely yet assertively, the United States may yet secure its interests.
In Policy Note 18, Washington Institute military fellows Chandler Atwood, Joshua Burgess, Michael Eisenstadt, and Joseph Wawro address specific military steps that can help prevent worst-case scenarios from materializing. An accompanying PowerPoint briefing elaborates on options described in the text.
THE AUTHORS
Maj Chandler P. Atwood (USAF) is a senior intelligence officer who has deployed and participated in Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle, Southern Watch, and Northern Watch.
Col Joshua C. Burgess (USAF) is a political affairs strategist with extensive special-operations and security-cooperation experience in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Central Asia, and is a linguist in German, Spanish, French, and Dari.
Lt Col Michael Eisenstadt (USAR, ret.) is director of the Military and Security Studies program at The Washington Institute.
Maj Joseph D. Wawro (USA) holds a master’s degree in national security and policymaking from the Naval War College and was deployed most recently to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and to Afghanistan in 2010.
MESOP : ASSAD WILL VISIT QAMISHLO SOON !
Supportive demonstrations in Qamishlo for Assad
BasNews, Syria – 16.5.2014 – People in Qamishlo, Syrian Kurdistan, gathered to support Bashar Assad in the presidential election.
How Western inaction led to fall of Homs / WATCH ALSO VIDEO
By Nadim Shehadi, Special to CNN – May 12, 2014 — Updated 1650 GMT (0050 HKT)
The Homs truce is a consequence of failing Western support to the opposition, writes Nadim Shehadi – Russia provides economic and military assistance to the Syrian regime, he says
Shehadi : The situation is similar to that in Iraq in 1991 when an uprising was encouraged by Washington
Editor’s note: Nadim Shehadi is an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme and former director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies at Oxford University. Follow @Confusezeus on Twitter. The views expressed in this commentary are solely the author’s.
MESOP ALERT : Activist’s office burned down in Amude city, northeast Syria – Office of legal-Studies in Amude burned by PYD ?
ARA News – 16-5-2014 – Amude, Syria – An anonymous group has reportedly burned down the office of legal-studies of the activist Omar Haji Nuri in Amude city, northeast of Syria, on Wednesday morning. Hji Nuri is a member of the Local Coordination Committee, which falls under the banner of the Syrian National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and the Opposition (SNC). Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=47131
MESOP ALERT : Activist’s office burned down in Amude city, northeast Syria – Office of legal-Studies in Amude burned by PYD ?
ARA News – 16-5-2014 – Amude, Syria – An anonymous group has reportedly burned down the office of legal-studies of the activist Omar Haji Nuri in Amude city, northeast of Syria, on Wednesday morning. Hji Nuri is a member of the Local Coordination Committee, which falls under the banner of the Syrian National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and the Opposition (SNC).
PYD expels KDP-S leader from Syrian Kurdistan
PYD – ON A STRAIGHT WAY TO A „ONE-PARTY-DICTATORSHIP“
Hemin Salih – BasNews, Erbil – 16-5-2014 – Having already blocked the head of Kurdistan Democratic Party – Syria (KDP-S) Su’ud Mullah from returning back to Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has stepped up its campaign against the KDP-S by arresting a party leader and sending him to the Kurdistan Region.
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