Kurdish ISIS emir Abu Mariya al-Kurdi killed by YPG

Kurdish ISIS fighter killed by YPG in Hasakah (??). He was orignally from Suleymaniyah.

U. S. Muslim Congressman: Obama should’ve used force in Syria

 Middle East  – Zamanalwsl – 2014-04-01 – U.S. President Barack Obama should have used military force in Syria, said Keith Ellison, the first U.S. Muslim Congressman, in an interview with Al Arabiya News Channel. “Obama should have used military force to destroy the airports and to degrade Assad’s ability to fly and to harm the people,” he said. He added that the Syrian crisis is currently in a state of stalemate. “We’re at a point in Syria where the government can’t defeat the rebels and the rebels can’t defeat the government,” said Ellison, who advocated a “more robust peace effort” to solve the crisis.

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ASSAD’S MOST FAVORITE & JOHN KERRY’S RESTAURANT NOW LOCATED IN ERBIL

Restaurant favoured by heads of state couldn’t stand heat in Syria, so moved to Iraqi Kurdistan 

1-4-2014 – By Hadeel al Sayegh – The National UAE – ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Bashar Al Assad still dines twice a week at his favourite restaurant in Damascus (since you ask, he loves the cracked wheat), but as civil war ravages Syria his fellow diners are fewer in number at every meal.

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Neo-Nazis kämpfen für Assad

MESOP KOMMENTAR – ….. nicht nur die blutige Leukefeld + die stalinistische ‘junge welt’ kämpfen für Assad, auch die ganz Rechten tun es :

Berichte über rechtsextreme Söldner in Syrien (GUARDIAN / Vice-Magazin ua.) :

1-4-2014 – Immer wieder tauchen Berichte über rechtsextreme Gruppierungen aus Europa auf, die in Syrien aufseiten des Assad-Regimes kämpfen. Eine offizielle Stellungnahme hiesiger Sicherheitsbehörden gibt es bislang nicht. (Foto: http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com)

Europäische Sicherheitsbehörden warnen seit langem davor, dass sich Hunderte jüngerer Männer aus Europa nach Syrien aufgemacht und oft extremistischen Gruppen angeschlossen haben. Berichte über die Gefahr zurückkehrender „Djihadisten“ sind weit verbreitet. Seit einigen Monaten mehren sich jedoch auch Berichte über rechtsextreme Gruppen, die zum Kampf nach Syrien reisen – für Assad.

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WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA): Tensions High In Ceylanpınar After Elections

ROJAVA REPORT  – 1.4.2014 – Tensions are high in the town of Ceylanpınar, located in Urfa Province on the Turkish-Syrian following Turkish municipal elections March 30th. Ceylanpınar forms a conurbation which the town of Serêkaniyê – on the largest towns in the Cizrê Canton of Rojava – and is also referred to as Serêkaniya Serxet, or ‘Serêkaniyê above the border.’

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Mesop Syria Daily: The New Frontlines Settle in Latakia & Qalamoun

By Scott Lucas March 31, 2014 12:47 Updated – LATEST: Islamic Front Denies Regime Claims of Atrocities in Capture of Kassab in Latakia Offensive

MONDAY FEATURE Video Analysis: CIA Says Insurgency = Al Qa’eda

A relatively quiet Sunday, as both insurgents and the regime consolidated recent gains. Having repulsed the Syrian military’s counter-attacks, opposition fighters settled into villages like Kassab and Nab’ain in Latakia Province in western Syria.

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TODAY’S MESOP SHORT CUTS SYRIA / WEST KURDISTAN (II)

ISIS, rebel groups vie for strategic town in al-Hasakah

United Nations aid workers delivered 280 food parcels to some 20,000 Syrian and Palestinian residents of Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus Sunday, bringing the total number of parcels delivered to the area since January 18 to 10,708, according to a public statement by UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesman Chris Gunness. “UNRWA has been informed by the authorities that distribution may not recommence for four days,” Gunness said, but did not specify the reasons for the advisory. UNRWA’s statement came a day after the UN’s successful delivery of humanitarian supplies to civilians in the blockaded Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. It also follows UN Humanitarian Coordinator Valerie Amos’s criticism of pro-Assad forces for continuing to restrict humanitarian access inside Syria in the month following the adoption of Security Council Resolution 2139 demanding unimpeded distribution of aid.

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MESOP FLASH : KAMAL AL LABWANI : PEACE WITH ISRAEL

In TV Interview, Syrian Opposition Activist Kamal Al-Labwani Makes The Case For Peace With Israel

 In a March 19 television interview, Dr. Kamal Al-Labwani a  Syrian doctor and artist who was twice imprisoned by the Syrian regime and is a member of the Syrian National Coalition, the umbrella organization of the Syrian insurgents, reiterated his support for a peace agreement with Israel.

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MESOP SHORT CUTS WEST KURDISTAN

Barzani Backed Syrian Kurdish Parties Hold Conference in Erbil Barzani backed political union party will hold conference on 3 April reports Welati.

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KNC building burned in Serikaniye / Click for picture

KNC building burned in Serikaniye (Ras al-Ain) by molotov cocktails. KNC there is close to PYD. Doubt its related to PYD-KNC tensions welati.

NEWS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC SYRIAN UPRISING: Salamiyah revolts, after two years of silence

31.3.2014 – A few days before the third anniversary of the Syrian uprising, a remarkable event took place in the western city of Salamiyah, in the Hama governorate. Fed up with the widespread lawlessness, looting and thuggery of the regime’s shabbiha (thugs), the people of the town, regardless of political or religious backgrounds, marched in a large demonstration together to condemn the appalling conditions in the town.

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