MESOP : “A HUGE VICTORY FOR ASSAD”
What can we learn from Homs?
12-5-2014 – Al Monitor – Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told Julian Pecquet this week that the negotiated exit by rebel forces from the Old City of Homs, which had been under siege by Syrian government forces, was a “huge victory” for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That is one way to see it. Other ways might be as a victory for the people of Homs, who finally got some relief from a brutal siege, and as a possible model of the incremental, painstaking and localized diplomacy required to bring relief to Syrians in war zones, especially given the collapse of the Geneva process.
Iran & Assad have won in Syria, say top Tehran foreign policy figures
MESOP : IF ASSAD REALLY “WINS” – HE WILL SOON GO AGAINST THE KURDS
12.5.2014 – THE Guardian – Iran and its close ally President Bashar al-Assad have won the war in Syria, and the US-orchestrated campaign in support of the opposition’s attempt to topple the Syrian regime has failed, senior Iranian officials have told the Guardian. “We have won in Syria,” said Alaeddin Borujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee and an influential government insider. “The regime will stay. The Americans have lost it.”
MESOP EXCLUSIVE: Assad’s financial support for YPG reaches more than half million dollar
12.05.2014 – Hemin Salih – BasNews, Erbil – According to BasNews sources, the head of the al-Ta tribe Mohammed al-Fars pointed out that the tribe will soon establish a joint checkpoint with Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces.
Suicide attack targets former head of Kurdish Journalists Union in Syria’s Tirbespi
12-05-2014 – ARA News – Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan− The house of Lewend Hussein, former head of the Journalists Union of Syrian Kurds (JUSK), was bombed on Friday evening in the town of Tirbespi/Qahtaniyah in Hasakah province, northeast of Syria.After the explosion, the forces of the Assayish (security arm of the Democratic Union Party PYD) surrounded the neighbourhood where the house is located.
MESOP: “ANTIFASCIST RED FLEET” OFFERS WAR CRIMINAL AL ASSAD BROTHERLY HELP
New Russian naval destroyer on Syria’s territorial water
12-05-2014 – ARA News – Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan− In its edition published on Saturday, the US-based World Tribune reported that a Russian military destroyer arrived in the Syrian territorial water “to protect Damascus from any marine attacks”, adding that the Russian Navy reinforced its forces based in the Mediterranean, near the Syrian Coast, by providing this destroyer.
Assayish forces deny torturing Syrian Kurd to death / Insulting Authority of PYD
ARA News – 12-5-2014 – Qamishli, Syria– The General Command of the Assayish forces in Efrin city released a statement on Thursday regarding the death of a prisoner at the Assayish detention center in Efrin, northweast of Syria, denying their involvement in his death. According to reports, Hanan Hamdosh, 35, was killed under torture by members of the Assayish after detaining him on the background of a traffic accident and for insulting the authority of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its security forces of the Assayish.
MESOP : FROM CIZIRE TO SLEMANI & EUROPE Cizîre Canton Foreign Minister visits PUK
MESOP : FROM CIZIRE TO SLEMANI & EUROPE
ANF – Sulaymaniyah 12.05.2014 – A delegation from the Cizîre Canton has accompanied Foreign Minister Salih Gedo to the city of Sulaymaniyah in South Kurditan to visit the PUK, the party of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. The delegation was met today by PUK officials Mahmud Haji Salih, responsible for parliamentary relations, and Khalil Khidir, who is responsible for relations with other Kurdish parties.
Israel erklärt Golanhöhen zur geschlossenen Militärzone
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
Sonntag 11. Mai 2014 | 18:15 – Entsprechende Restriktionen betreffen insbesondere den Grenzkontrollpunkt Quneitra und Gebiete, die südlich davon liegen. Diese Entscheidung wurde gefasst, weil „Kriegshandlungen in Syrien immer näher an Israel kommen“, so die Medien.
Peshmerga denies arrest of 27 Syrian Kurds, suggest they were arrested by Iraqi army
Rojava election delayed four months
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