Leaked document Confirms ISIS Links to Assad Regime

A leaked document submitted to Major General Ali Mamlouk, head of the National Security Office of the Assad regime, and signed by Colonel Haider Haider, head of the security committee in the town of Nubbul in Aleppo province, contains information about coordination between the Assad regime and extremist armed groups, especially Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS). The document, published by Al Sharq al-Awsat on April 4, 2014, confirms that a number of Iraqi militiamen joined the fight alongside Assad’s forces and were recruited by the State Security Branch of Aleppo.

MESOP NEW : Syria rebels advance in Idlib countryside

05-04-2014 – ARA News – Aleppo, Syria– On Friday, at least 20 regime soldiers were killed and others injured during clashes with Islamic divisions and fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the southern countryside of Idlib city. 

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Mesop :NEW U.S. ROLE IN SYRIA ? – U.S. Finalizing Plan to Boost Support for Syrian Rebels

By Mark Hosenball & Missy Ryan – 2014-04-05 – WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. government is finalizing a plan to increase training and small-arms shipments for Syrian rebels, two U.S. security sources said on Friday, as Syrian government troops gain momentum following the collapse of U.S.-backed peace talks.

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MESOP FLASH : Syrian Kurds appeal for help to prevent fall of Ain al-Arab / REDUR XELIL

By Fehim Tastekin  – April 5, 2014 – Original Article ORİJİNAL YAZIYI TÜRKÇE OKUYABİLİRSİNİZ – AL MONITOR – An appeal from Syrian Kurds went unheard amid the clamor of the [Turkish] elections. In Syria, where there is a masterpiece imbroglio of fronts within fronts, alliances with the enemy and animosity against allies, it becomes nearly impossible to decipher what is going on when the Kurds get involved too.

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MESOP REPORT : French Push U.N. to Seek War Crimes Case in Syria

By Somini Sengupta – New York Times – 5-4-2014 – UNITED NATIONS — France has taken the first steps toward proposing a Security Council resolution that would refer Syria to the International Criminal Court for the prosecution of war crimes, diplomats said Friday, an action long sought by rights advocates.

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WEST KURDISTAN : A one party domination or democratic parties of diversity ?

 Osman Ocalan: PYD Will Not Allow Power Sharing in Syria

By RUDAW 20/8/2013 – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Osman Ocalan, the brother of the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) — and a onetime head of the group — believes that the chaos in Syria favors the Kurds there, granting them “an opportunity for achieving freedom for the Kurds.”But he warns that Kurdish parties in Syria must deal with the situation cautiously and without excluding one another from the political process.

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MESOP INSIGHT : Cezîre sent half million dollars to Kobanê Ministery of Defense

4 April 2014 hawarnews –  Based on the policies and diplomacy of defense and calls for mobilization against the attacks of al-Qaeda affiliated ISIS groups, Cizîre Region sent half million dollars to Kobanê Region Ministery of Defense.

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MESOP: “GRUMBLING” ON THE ALAVITE SITE : Fouad Humera Says 80% of Alawites Don’t Support Assad

Fri 04 Apr 2014 – By All4Syria – Syrian Alwaite writer Fouad Humera has claimed that more than 80% of Alawites do not support Bashar Assad, himself from the Alawite sect.”The Alawites in Syria were torn between the fire of the regime that does not protect them, and the fire of their partners in the country who do not accept them,” Humera said.

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MESOP REPORT : Kurdish media activists intimidated by ISIL in Syria’s Tel Abyad

04-04-2014 – ARA News – Urfa, Turkey– Local activists in Tel Abyad city reported that the Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) distributed on Wednesday pamphlets with a list of names of Kurdish media activists whom the ISIL seeks for retribution. A local activist (who preferred anonymity) told ARA News that the ISIL didn’t only publish names of Kurdish activists, “but also warned everyone not to communicate with them of provide them with any ISIL-linked news”.

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WATCH MOVIES OF SYRIA UNTOLD : ANIMATED FILMS IN THE FACE OF AR & OPPRESSION

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