MESOP NEWS ROUND UP SYRIA : “REVOLUTIONARY PYD” BOMBS DEMOCRATIC SYRIAN FORCES JOINTLY TOGETHER WITH ASSAD CRIMINALS

Regime, PYD forces seek to rout FSA in al-Hasakah / SYRIA DIRECT 12.8.2014 – “KILLING WOMEN & CHILDREN”

Regime forces and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) bombarded a holdout district still supporting the FSA in al-Hasakah city Monday night and Tuesday morning after attempting to capture it over the weekend.“Fifty mortars were launched from the military base and al-Ghazal Circle checkpoint, 15 artillery shells from Jabal al-Kawkab, and more than ten tank shells” struck the neighborhood, Ahmed al-Jazrawai, a civilian present in the Ghweiran neighborhood at the time told Syria Direct, adding that 20 were wounded, including women and children.

Residents resisted the attack, reportedly killing five PYD soldiers. Fighting in Ghweiran is the first direct combat al-Hasakah has witnessed between the FSA on one side and the PYD and regime allied on the other.

The Islamic State (IS) is increasingly gaining ground around the provincial capital of al-Hasakah, most notably after IS captured the al-Milbiya regiment, located 10 km south of the city, on July 27th. IS began firing mortars into the city after that. The joint regime/PYD attempt to enter Ghweiran, and subsequent bombardment of the neighborhood, suggests an effort to bring the entire city of al-Hasakah under one banner in the face of IS’s advance.  http://syriadirect.org/rss/1489-syria-direct-news-update-8-12-2014