U.S. Shifts Syria Strategy to ‘Southern Front’ – By Nabih Bulos & Patrick J. McDonnell ( Joshua Landis)
Los Angeles Times – 2014-03-22 – Free Syrian Army fighters travel in Dara, in southern Syria, where the U.S. and other allies are placing more resources in hope of turning around the civil war (Anadolu Agency/October 31, 2013). – IRBID, Jordan — The Free Syrian Army commander, head of a moderate rebel force fighting just across the border in southern Syria, watched helplessly for months as better-funded Islamist militant groups peeled off half the 2,000 fighters from his brigade.That changed in February when an intelligence operative from a country he refuses to name handed him an envelope full of cash — salaries for his remaining combatants.
TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION : CIA FOCUSSED ON SOUTH SYRIA
(The CIA declines to comment on reports that the agency is training rebels in Jordan, but current and former U.S. officials say agency operatives train opposition fighters and also coordinate intelligence with them.)
MESOP LATEST : Fighting continues between Kurds & ISIS northeast Syria
24.3.2014 – MESOP – Heavy fighting convenes between the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham near Kobane (Ayn-Al-Arab) in northeast Syria. – ISIS has been attacking the area from three directions: Jarablus to the west, Sarrin to the south, and Tal Abyad to the east. The latest report of fighting comes from the village of Kandal near Tal Abyad. The Kurdish militia YPG claim victory, with more than 60 ISIS fighters killed and 20 captured and at least one tank destroyed.
MESOP RECOMMENDATION : Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford on Kurds in Syria / Questioned by Mutlu Civiroglu
WATCH VIDEO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5C33UkLaQc&feature=youtu.be
MESOP FLASH : THE CRUCIFICATION OF A YOUNG MAN BY ISIL ISLAMISTS
ARA News – 23.3.2014 – Raqqa, Syria− Members of the al-Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed on Saturday a young man in the city of Raqqa, and placed his body on a wooden cross in the main square of the city.After executing the young man, ISIL group placed his dead body on a cross and issued a statement that the he will remain in that position for three days.
All made in Germany (EAST (DDR) + WEST (BRD)
Mukhbaratis might tell you about the German chair. An installation working like a chair with folding elements with what the back can be overstreched and the spine be broken.
(picture shows activist demonstrating the installation outside Syria)
War Crimes & Transitional Justice in Syria / By Maram Daoud
MESOP – 22-3-2014 – International Human Rights organizations such as HRW have published many reports of human rights violations in Syria, which talk about war crimes that have certainly happened. These reports are talking about not only violations on Syrian people such as arresting, starving, and massacres, but also completely destroying of neighborhoods and using of explosive barrels.So, We’re facing a complicated catastrophe that should be resolved by democratic transition, releasing the detainees, passing the aids to the sieged areas then judging the killers, rebuilding the destroyed neighborhoods and moral and material compensation of harmed people, that all mean transitional justice.
MESOP FLASH : Another town liberated by YPG Forces
22 March 2014 – hawarnews – The People’s Defense Units (YPG) Press Centre announced that a retaliatory operation has been carried out on the village of Tell Henzir, 25 kilometres to the west of Serekaniye (Ras al-Ayn), which is an important base used by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) gangs.
MESOP SHORT CUTS – Michel Kilo: Coalition leader will not expand his presidential term
2014-03-22 – zamanalwls – A veteran dissident and head of democratic bloc in Syria’s opposition National Coalition denied claims saying that Ahmed Jarab will extend his presidential term to be one year.
Russian Defiance Is Seen as a Confidence Builder for Syria’s Government
By ANNE BARNARD – MARCH 21, 2014 – Ne York Times – DAMASCUS, Syria — Russia’s growing rift with the West over the crisis in Ukraine has bolstered the confidence of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, pro-government analysts here say, emboldening him to press ahead with plans for re-election despite a three-year insurgency and making Syrian officials doubt that Russia will pressure him to compromise anytime soon.
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