Pro-regime Sunni fighters in Aleppo defy sectarian narrative / By Edward DARK
ALEPPO, Syria — 16.3.2014 AL MONITOR – This month marks three years of an uprising that has swept through Syria, leaving death and ruin in its wake. Aleppo has suffered 18 months of brutal, divisive conflict. The city now lies split, both in territorial control and along social, political fault lines.
MESOP LATEST : NEW DEMOCRAZY OR OLD STALINISM ?
PYD Security warns residents to obey their rules or leave the country
17.03.2014 – BasNews, Erbil – Security forces belonging to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syrian Kurdistan have warned people against taking any action not expressly approved by PYD units. PYD security forces threatened to expel anyone who disobeys the order.
MESOP LATEST – ASSAD NO ! : German FM urged opposition to accept Assad’s regime in transitional period
2014-03-17 – zamanalwsl – German foreign Minister urged Syria’s opposition, in meeting took place last month with the interim PM Ahmad Toumeh, to accept Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the transitional governing period, well-informed source said. Mr. Frank Steinmeier, the veteran diplomat and German Minister of foreign affair, has commended the opposition participation in Geneva talks last January.
TODAY’S MESOP EDITORIAL : The Syrian Uprising at Three Years – After three years, no end in sight
by Borzou Daragahi, Financial Times – 16-3-2014 – (…) “Two years ago we controlled nothing,” says Mr Hammoud, 53, during a meeting in a hotel in southeast Turkey where he and some of his fighters gathered to discuss strategy with other Syrian activists, rebels and politicians. “Now from the Iraqi border to Deir Ezzour there is no regime.”
Three years on…
Many of his men, his relatives and his neighbours have been killed, martyred to a revolution that began three years ago this month. But there have been many victories, too. “If we lose one fighter we take 10,” he says. “We have so much experience at this point. We have gotten very good. Of course, we are winning; we are advancing all the time.”
Al-Monitor Congress Pulse expands Syria, Russia coverage
17.3.2014 – Al-Monitor’s Congress Pulse got off to a fast start this week, as Julian Pecquet broke the news on March 14 about a new resolution sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Edward Royce, R-Calif., and ranking member Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., calling on the Obama administration to develop a new US strategy for Syria in 60 days and withdraw recognition of the Syrian government, “unless and until the [Bashar al-] Assad regime and its supporting militias discontinue their barbaric slaughter, systematic starvation and other grave human rights abuses, and are granted full and unfettered access for deliveries of humanitarian assistance, even as other negotiations with Assad’s regime may continue.”
Palestinians tortured to death in Syrian prisons / No Reaction of Western Palestine Solidarity Groups
16 March 2014 – The siege of Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus has entered its 245th day
TODAY’S MESOP SYRIA DEEPLY
17-3-2014 – The third anniversary of the Syrian conflict was marked with vigils around the world, with humanitarian groups calling for an end to the bloodshed and taking account of the destruction.Alongside the rising death toll, cities have been reduced to rubble – three million buildings destroyed – while half of Syria’s children are missing out on school, UNICEF told us this week.
Assad-Fans in Italien : Mit Syrienflagge & Hitlergruß – Stalinisten & Nazis
16-3-2014 – taz – Stalinisten und Nazis treffen sich in ihrem diffusen Antiimperialismus. Aber auch in ihrer Unterstützung des syrischen Diktators sind sie sich einig. Mitten in Rom wurde die Piazza Venezia, auf der einst Benito Mussolini seine Reden hielt, zum Schauplatz einer eigentümlichen Demonstration: Vor dem Eingangstor der syrischen Botschaft hielten einige Dutzend Menschen Porträts des syrischen Präsidenten Baschar al-Assad und viele syrische Fahnen in die Höhe. – Redner wechselten sich am Mikrofon ab, und als schließlich aus den Lautsprechern die syrische Nationalhymne ertönte, streckte ein Teil der Demonstranten den rechten Arm zum Hitlergruß aus, während der andere mit geballter Faust salutierte. Auf die erste „rot-braune“ Demonstration vor fast genau einem Jahr sollten weitere folgen.
MESOP Syria Daily: Assad Forces & Hezbollah Inside Yabroud
FOREIGN INTERVENTION : IRAN VIA HEZBOLLAH (WATCH * CLICK PICTURES / VIDEOS)
By Scott Lucas March 16, 2014 13:40 Updated – LATEST: Video: Aftermath of Bombing of Maarat al-Nu’man in Idlib Province on Saturday
UPDATE 1230 GMT: Well-placed sources confirm, “Insurgents have started retreating to prepared positions. Final fall of Yabroud is only a matter of hours.”
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcasting from northeastern Yabroud:
Pro-Assad forces replace insurgent flag with regime’s banner:
Syrian troops and Hezbollah have finally entered the city of Yabroud, after a month-long offensive.
FÜR EIN FREIES & DEMOKRATISCHES SYRIEN : Militärische Hilfe jetzt!
Unsere Erklärung zum 3. Jahrestag des Aufstandes gegen das Assad-Regime:
Heute, einen Tag, nachdem sich der Beginn des Aufstands gegen das Assad-Regime zum mittlerweile dritten Mal jährte, haben syrische Regierungstruppen und die mit ihr verbündeten Milizen der Hisbollah die Stadt Yabroud nach monatelangen Kämpfen eingenommen. Dies ist für die Aufständischen eine strategisch katastrophale Niederlage. Mit dem Verlust der Stadt ist nun die letzte Nachschubroute aus dem Libanon in die Damaszener Stadtteile, die nach wie vor von den Rebellen gehalten werden, abgeschnitten. Für das Regime ist es nun ein Leichtes, diese Gebiete von der Außenwelt zu isolieren und auszuhungern, wie es dies auch schon in Yarmouk und vielen anderen Ortschaften getan hat. Dabei hat das Regime diesen Sieg maßgeblich seiner Luftwaffe zu verdanken.
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