MESOP LATEST WEST KURDISTAN : Fighting in Kobanê ve Til Ebyad: ISIS Suffering Heavy Losses
ROJAVA REPORT (PYD) 28.3.2014 – (ANF/KOBANÊ) In recent fighting around the Kobanê Canton between YPG forces and the Islamic State or Iraq and Sham (ISIS) the ISIS has lost another 7 fighters. In ongoing fighting in the region around Girê Spî (Arabic:Til Ebyad) the ISIS has lost more than 60 fighters in the past week.
MESOP FLASH (III) – HRW: Aid Qamishli Crossing Goes to Regime
Aid delivered through the Qamishli crossing is being distributed mostly by the government and government-affiliated organizations, raising concerns about whether it would reach civilians in opposition-held territory. – https://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/syria
This is also confirmed by both the Kurdish National Council (KNC), Akram Hissou, PM of the Cizere Canton Administration and the Democratic Union Party (PYD). Posted by Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Al-Parti Asks All Kurds in Syria to Fight Under the Flag of Kurdistan
28.03.2014 – Massoud Omari – BasNews, Qamishlo – The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (al-Parti) has asked the Democratic Union Party (PYD) to unite with it under the name of Kurdistan and Kurdistan’s Flag against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) terrorist group.Recently in a statement, General Secretary of al-Parti Dr. Abdulhakim Bashar asked the PYD to accept a politically united front to protect Kurdish cities in Syrian Kurdistan against the ISIS group.
MESOP STATEMENTS : SALIH MUSLIM STEPS BACK FROM HIS IRAN ACCUSATIONS
Accusations against foreign countries by Kurds over Kobani
Salih Muslim denies accusing Iran of backing ISIS fighters The co-leader of Syria pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) Salih Muslim denied he had accused the Islamic Republic of Iran of backing the jihadist forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) that are fighting against the Kurds in Syria Kurdish regions. “I have not said that Iran is backing the ISIS. All are well aware that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and recently Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have given weapons, including tanks, to them (the jihadists),” Muslim told Kurdpress on phone today, denying recent reports quoting him that he has accused Tehran government of backing the extremist forces. Recent reports quoted Salih during a speech at a Newroz ceremony in Dusseldorf, as saying Iran, Turkey and Syria have been working against the Kurds of Syria by helping the ISIS.
MESOP INSIGHT FLASH : U.S. HEARING ABOUT OBAMA’S SYRIA POLICY
National Journal on Wednesday conveyed details of what the outlet described as an “explosive” hearing held that day by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which saw senators from both parties “eviscerate” Obama administration officials over what Sen. Bob Corker described as a “delusional” understanding of the Syrian conflict.
SYRIA : THE FIGHT FOR OIL & KOBANE : Clashes Escalate Around Sovereign Turkish Enclave in Syria
By Namik Durukan – AL Monitor – 2014-03-28 06:36 GMT – As the Turkish army is placed on alert along the border with Syria, clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the YPG (Kurdish People’s Protection Units), the military wing of the Kurdish administration that recently declared itself an autonomous region, are escalating.Kobane, one of the three administrative centers of the Kurds, is surrounded by ISIS. Twenty-five ISIS fighters, two of them Turks, were killed by the YPG. ISIS displayed the bodies of nine YPG fighters. If Turkish special forces on standby at the border enter Syrian territory to prevent ISIS from attacking the Tomb of Suleiman Shah, they may well encounter armed YPG units at some locations.
MESOP FLASH : Syrian Rebels Clash Over Oil Fields
Daily Star, Lebanon – 28.3.2014 – Militants from ISIS clashed with Islamist rebel groups Thursday for control of oil facilities in Syria’s east, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was unclear who controlled the Jafra oil field and nearby Conoco gas field in rural Deir al-Zor, but that both sides in the clashes had sustained casualties in the fighting.
Syrian Kurds, rebels find common enemy in ISIS / By Wladimir van Wilgenburg
AL MONITOR 28-3-2014 – ERBIL — The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have found a common enemy in the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the countryside of Aleppo. This new alignment represents a reversal of the situation in summer 2013, when the same rebel group fought with ISIS against the Kurds, accusing the main Kurdish party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), of abetting the Syrian regime. Today, however, accusations of collaborating with the regime are being directed at ISIS, and PYD leader Salih Muslim is accusing the regime of supporting jihadist attacks against the Kurds.
Syria: Blaming the Opposition / By Frederic C. Hof
Frederic C. Hof is a resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
The Atlantic Council – Why has Bashar al-Assad been able to hang onto power in western Syria? According to Ambassador Robert Ford, there are three reasons, none of which relates to shortcomings in Western policy. Indeed, reasons one and three are assigned to the Syrian opposition. Reason two lands on the doorsteps of Tehran and Moscow. Is Syria’s opposition truly responsible for the Assad regime’s survival? Is Western policy blameless? This is the view of the Obama administration. Is it true?
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