Six Iraqi Battalions Fighting to protect Assad Regime
06.02.2014 – Miran Hussein – BasNews, Syria – Many rumors have been circulating recently about the Iraqi forces that have been involved in the Syrian civil war helping back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government forces fight against radical Islamic groups in the country. One such group of Iraqi army forces is the al-Zulfaqar Battalion, who has played a major role in the country’s bloody conflict.
16 Druze detainees tortured to death by War Criminal Assad: document
At least 16 detainees from Sweida province and Jaramana city have been tortured to death with other 28 still arrested in Bashar Al Assad’s prisons, a new document by human rights activists said. – The main stronghold of Druze sect has witnessed several pro-democracy protests since the Syrian uprising erupted in March 2011. While the movement remains marginal, it is charged with symbolism, activists said. Sweida is the birthplace of the historical Syrian figure, Sultan Pacha al-Atrash, who led the Syrian Revolution from 1925–1927.
The Rojava Report (PYD) : Hundreds Dead In Renewed Fighting For Control Of Northern Syria / BARREL BOMBS
Fighting has once again broken out in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. At least 250 are known to have died in barrel bomb attacks launched by Syrian government forces. Separately, clashes between opposition groups and al-Qaeda have intensified in the town of Coanbeyli on the Turkish-Syrian Border.
USA wollen Syrien-Strategie ändern / RIA NOVOSTI
RIA Novosti – 6.2.2014 – „Nesawissimaja Gaseta“ – Die USA betrachten ihre bisherige Strategie bei der Lösung der Syrien-Krise offenbar als gescheitert, schreibt die „Nesawissimaja Gaseta“ am Donnerstag.
Joshua Landis: Many Syrians are looking to America to fix Syria for them
TODAY’S MESOP COMMENTARY : JOSHUA LANDIS (GULAN MEDIA)
6.2.2014 – Gulan: What kind of changes might the Geneva second conference bring to the Syrian situation?
Landis: it is unclear. President Assad and his team believe that they were in a strong position because he believes that the world—United States and Europe— would be with him as the solution to increasing jihadism and chaos in rebel Syria, but it turned out that secretary John Kerry is not going to take a play into this game, instead he held to the idea that there must be a regime change in Syria that Assad must go, and that he will not compromise on this. This position, of course, is a bit confusing as they are for the Syrian government, because they believe they are winning the war, but it is also confusing for analysts because United States is asking for regime change and is going to do nothing. There is a gap between the rhetoric of the Obama administration and the reality of not doing anything on the ground.
Gedo Criticizes Political Union
Battles less intense between Jihadists and Kurds in Syria /Al Monitor article: The Kurdish card
6-2-2014 – Perhaps one of the biggest ironies in the eastern area’s military scene is that various armed factions have united against the Kurdish forces, specifically the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the north of Hassakeh.
New ISIL video: We are the enemy of Ocalan & Barzani
New ISIL/ISIS video on Kurds, with a Syrian Kurdish Jihadist from Afrin speaking on camera. I haven’t found it yet on Youtube. The video shows Islamist hostility against all ‘secular groups’ such as the PKK, KDP and Assad.
Taha Hussain – BasNews, Syria – A number of Syrian Kurds in the Kurdish region of Syria have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS). – In a video released on Facebook by ISIS, a bearded man appears with a group of militants holding ISIS flags. The man speaks in the Kurdish dialect Kurmanji and states that he is from Afrin, a Kurdish town close to Aleppo.
PYD festival in Slemani 9-11 February
6.2.2014 – PYD organizes cultural festival on the role of culture in democratic self-rule administration in the Kurdish areas of Syria organized by Foreign Relations Committee of the PYD between 9-11 February 2014. Talabani’s PUK and opposition party Gorran enjoy good relations with the PYD (ANHA).
Syria: Assad, Chemical Weapons & What Comes Next ?
By Scott Lucas February 6, 2014 – eaworldview – Scott Lucas spoke with Monocle 24′s The Daily on Wednesday night about the Assad regime’s handover of only 4% of its chemical weapons stocks before international deadlines on December 31 and January 31. The 8-minute discussion moves from the reasons — Damascus claims security concerns; others see deliberate stalling — to wider issues about the political and military conflict and Assad’s strategy.
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