MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUNDER : How do raising salaries and wages prolong Syria’s economic crisis?

Enab Baladi – Zeinab Masri  12 Oct 2020 – For nearly a decade, the Syrian people have been suffering from severe economic hardship, and those living in the areas controlled by the Syrian regime are waiting for decisions from the new government—which was appointed at the end of last August—that would help them overcome their distress and improve living conditions. 

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INSIGHT : Will Syrian regime launch new battles in opposition regions?

Members of the “National Front for Liberation (NFL)” during military trainings (Azaaeem)

Enab Baladi – Ali Darwish 12 Oct 2020 – The frontlines between the Syrian regime and the opposition factions in northern Syria have witnessed reinforcements on both sides, which led to tensions in some contact lines, such as Idlib’s southern countryside. These military build-ups raised questions about the possibility of new battles by the Russian ally of the Syrian regime against Turkish influenced regions, as Ankara supports the region’s opposition factions.

Last week, the “Syrian National Army (SNA),” backed by Turkey, reinforced the battlefronts lines with the Syrian regime’s forces, in Aleppo countryside, in anticipation of “all possibilities.”

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS – Turkey’s Relationship with ISIS Proves It Is Deserting Its European Allies

By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar – October 11, 2020 – ISRAEL  – BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,772, October 11, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ISIS was so successful in 2014 in part because President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey is a vocal supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Any distance Erdoğan has placed between himself and ISIS is attributable to pressure from Russia, the US, and Europe, not to his rejection of the group’s Islamist ideology.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS HIGLIGHTS :  12 Oct 2020 – Iran-backed militias in Iraq have agreed to halt rocket attacks on US forces and personnel

On condition that the government presents a timetable for the withdrawal of all American troops.  THE NATIONAL ABU DHABI  12 Oct 2020 – Iraqi militias announce conditional ceasefire against US troopsAmerican soldiers in Iraq were attacked over past year, with pro-Iran groups suspected

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS : Lifting the Embargo on Arms Sales to Iran

​Ephraim Kam – Ephraim Kam INSS Insight No. 1387, October 11, 2020 Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He served for 25 years in IDF military intelligence specializing in Syria, Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups, and Israeli Arabs, and is an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.k

While the Security Council ban on arms sales to the Islamic Republic will expire in a few days, Iran’s weapons stockpiles will not be filled overnight. Even without an embargo, Tehran will find it difficult to conclude significant arms deals due to its economic plight. But this does not mean Iran will not invest major efforts in the attempt to acquire high-quality weapons, or that Israel has no cause to worry

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Bagdad-KRG agreement terms on Şingal disclosed

The Iraqi federal government and the KRG announced, on Friday, that they had reached an agreement regarding Şingal, which the two sides described as “historic,” without taking into account the opinion of the people of Şingal, who when they were subjected to the most heinous massacre and violations at the hands of ISIS under the ears and eyes of the Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga. What are the terms of this agreement?
KURDISTAN 11 Oct 2020, Sun – 22:09 2020-10-11T22:09:00

ANHA obtained a copy of the terms of the agreement which includes 3 main axes.

According to the text of the agreement, in the first item, “forming a joint administration in cooperation between Bagdad and KRG and cancel the arrangements that were established after 2017,” according to the description of the agreement.

The second item is the security arrangements clause, as security is assigned to the Federal Police in cooperation with the Kurdistan region. Consequently, 2,500 members of the Internal Security Forces will be sent to city to end the presence of the rest of the security forces.

Note that since the liberation of Şingal, the Şingal Protection Units that participated in the liberation assumed the task of protection, which was formed from the sons and daughters of Şingal. However, in 2017, part of it was overrun by the Popular Mobilization Forces against the backdrop of the failed referendum conducted by the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Masoud Barzani at the time, which caused the region to lose much of its territory, which was controlled by the federal forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces.

As for the third item, it includes services, and it is also done in cooperation between the two parties to reconstruct the city, which was damaged to an eighty percent level due to its occupation by ISIS.

As a reaction to this agreement, which did not take into account the opinion of the people of Şingal on the issue of managing and protecting their region, the people took place today, Sunday, in a mass demonstration to express their rejection of any decision related to the administrative situation in the region outside the will of its residents. And they issued a statement in which they set two basic conditions for acceptance of the agreement, namely:

– Involving the people of city in any decision regarding the administration that will be elected in the future from the people.

– Forming a committee to discuss and consult in everything related to city, with the effective participation of the people of the city.

It is noteworthy that, in 2014, Şingal, in northwestern Iraq, was subjected to a violent attack by ISIS mercenaries, during which they carried out mass murder and kidnappings in the region after all the Iraqi forces that describe themselves today as “legitimate” abandoned the people of Şingal and left them facing the brutality of ISIS.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Kurdistan Region says PKK behind assassination of border official

Halgurd Sherwani |  – ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – According to a statement released by the Kurdistan Region’s internal security forces on Saturday, the armed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) was behind the assassination two days earlier of a top border crossing official in Duhok province while he was off duty.

Ghazi Salih Alikhan, the director of security at Sarzeri border-crossing between the autonomous region of Iraq and its northern neighbor Turkey, was struck by sniper fire on Thursday afternoon and died briefly after being rushed to a hospital in Zakho for emergency medical treatment.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Das Erste wünscht Ihnen noch einen schönen Tag! / HENRYK M. BRODER

  1. Okt 2020 – Unser Leser Hans P. meinte, eine gewisse Unausgewogenheit in der Gestaltung der „Tatorte“ zu erkennen und wandte sich an die Zuschauerredaktion beim Ersten. Hier finden Sie die Anfrage und die Reaktion der Redaktion:

Von Henryk M. Broder

Betrifft Ihre Tatorte!

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS „JOINT COMRADES IN ARMS“: „Das Schicksal von Kurden und Armeniern ist eng verwoben“

Der türkische Staat benutzt den Krieg um die Republik Arzach für den Ausbau seiner Hegemonie im Kaukasus, erklärt Nubar Melkonian vom armenischen Bataillon Şehîd Nubar Ozanyan. Der in Hesekê gegründete Kampfverband beteiligt sich am Widerstand in Rojava.

 

  • ANF  HESEKÊ –   Sonntag, 11 Okt 2020, 08:03 – Nubar Melkonian gehört zum Kommando des in Nordsyrien kämpfenden armenischen Bataillons „Şehîd Nubar Ozanyan“. Im Gespräch mit ANF gab er eine Einschätzung der Entwicklungen in der von Karabach-Armeniern bewohnten Republik Arzach ab und erklärte, der türkische Staat benutze den Angriffskrieg Aserbaidschans für den Ausbau seiner Hegemonie im Kaukasus.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FOCUS : Russia’s outreach to Syrian Kurds highlights dual-track approach

While Russia blames the United States for adding fuel to the fire of Kurdish separatism, it calls on the Syrian Kurds to lay the groundwork for constitutional reform, so as to contain conflict in the territories over which Damascus has long lost control.

Anton Mardasov Oct 9, 2020 – AL MONITOR – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a warning during an Oct. 5 press conference over the risk of an escalation of the Kurdish problem due to the US attempts “to cobble up a Kurdish autonomy.” Washington, he said, is known to be talking the Turks “into not objecting to the idea of creating such autonomy, assuring them that the Americans will ensure the Kurds’ loyalty.”

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