INSIGHT OF REVOLUTIONARY SYRIA : Manbij, a Success Story in the Liberated Areas of Syria
Wed 22 Jan 2014 – By The Syrian Observer – An interview with Yasser Munif on Manbij, a city governed by a revolutionary council and that saw the creation of Syria’s first free trade union and independent police force
The story of Manbij, a city of 200,000 people located east of Aleppo is little known. However, this is where Syria’s first free trade union was created, a city governed by a revolutionary council with an independent police force and several newspapers. Yasser Munif, a Syrian academic based in the US, who visited the town in December, before the fighting erupted between rebels and jihadists across all north and northeastern Syria, tells us more about his experience.
Are Syrian Kurds Being Left Out in Montreux ? / Civiroglu – Van Wilgenburg & Dilshad Othman
Mutlu Civiroglu, Wladimir van Wilgenburg, a Middle East Analyst for the Jamestown Foundation specializing in Kurdish politics and Dilshad Othman, a Syrian specialist in information security and a U.S State Department Internet Freedom fellow to weigh in on the consequences of Kurds being left out of this week’s negotiations
Syria: Dealing with the (Assad) Devil — When Spies Play Politics

In large part, the contact is because of the West’s fear of “foreign fighters” who might return to their home countries. But is it also a marker of the willingness of some countries, like the US, to quietly accept a President Assad and his inner circle remaining in power?
Syria: Can New US-Zionist-Western Conspiracy Help ISIS & Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Find Common Ground?
The leader of the former, Umar al-Shishani, has said he is in Syria to fight the infidels — including Iranians — to establish an Islamic State under Sharia Law, as directed by Allah. The latter have staunchly supported Bashar al-Assad on the political front and sent advisers and some fighters to Syria to help battle the takfiris — including ISIS — and keep Assad, an Alawite, in power. Until recently, there seemed little chance for reconciliation between these two opposing sides. Now, however, a new conspiracy theory has brought hope for the unexpected.
Both the Revolutionary Guards, via their site Fars News, and Chechen ISIS fighters, via their outlet FiSyria, have revealed the existence of a new, terrifying, Western-Zionist-US conspiracy involving Fox News, the US military, the Free Syrian Army, Israel and Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes.
Syrian Coalition delegation in Geneva II
Syrian Coalition: Abdulhamid Darwish Nazeer AL Hakeem Abdulhakim Bashar Ahmed Jarba Bader Jamous Haitham Maleh Michel Kilo Hadi Bahra Suheir Atasi Noura Amir will go Geneva II. https://twitter.com/SyrCoalition
Wladimir @vvanwilgenburg Abdulhakim Bashar (KDP-S) and Hameed Darwish (Progressive) will represent KNC in Geneva II says @SyrCoalition #twitterkurds #syria
Syria opposition coalition should not go to Geneva II: resigned Kurdish coalition member tells Kurdpress

PYD to open representative office in Baghdad
22.01.2014 – Hemin Salih – BasNews, ERBIL: The Democratic Union Party (PYD) plans to open a representative office in the Iraqi Capital Baghdad.Ja’afer Hannan, a PYD representative in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, told BasNews the aim of opening party representative offices is to foster stronger relationships with all neighboring countries.
Syria Kurds Name Municipal Council in Northeast / SALIH MUSLIM
Naharnet Newsdesk – 22-1-2014 – Syria’s Kurds named a municipal council Tuesday for one of three majority-Kurdish regions in the country’s northeast, two months after they declared self-rule, an official said.”We have named a municipal government for the Jazeera area,” Saleh Muslim, head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Agence France Presse.
„Daily Telegraph“ wirft Damaskus Finanzierung von Islamisten vor
DIE STIMME RUSSLANDS – 21-1-2014 – Die Regierung von Baschar Al-Assad unterstütze heimlich islamistische Rebellen, um im Ausland den Eindruck zu erwecken, dass hinter dem Aufstand in Syrien Terroristen stecken. Dies schreibt die „Daily Telegraph“ unter Berufung auf Quellen in der Intelligenz.
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