Syrien

„Assad regime’s top cleric Ahmad Badr al-Hassoun passed a fatwa, judgment, to exterminate Syrians in  the eastern parts of Aleppo where civilians live under opposition’s control. Hassoun said on Assad regime’s news channel al-Akhbaraya, ‚I call upon the Syrian Army to show us its rage and I also call upon our leader to show us their rage in exterminating those…

„Im Süden Syriens haben Soldaten der syrischen Armee eine Waffenlieferung abgefangen, die sich auf dem Weg zu Kämpfern der Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat befand. Pikantes Detail: Bei den Minen, Mörsergranaten, Raketenwerfern und Handgranaten soll es sich um Waffen aus israelischer Produktion handeln, berichtet die Zeitung Jerusalem Post und verschiedene syrische Medien. Demnach sei der Wagen nahe Al-Suweida im Südwesten des Landes von…

„According to a TV report on Tuesday, Israeli defense officials are concerned an IS offshoot based on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights may have recently acquired chemical weapons which once belonged to the Assad regime. … The report noted while the jihadist group was preoccupied with fighting other factions in the Syrian civil war and was not currently…

„Russland hat sich als enger Verbündeter des syrischen Regimes gegen eine sofortige Feuerpause im Raum Aleppo ausgesprochen. Der Kampf gegen Terrorgruppierungen in der Region sollte fortgesetzt werden, sagte Vizeaußenminister Gennadi Gatilow am Samstag in Moskau. ‚Wir werden keinen Druck (auf die syrische Führung) ausüben, weil man verstehen muss, dass ein Kampf gegen den Terror stattfindet. Und die Situation in Aleppo…

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Als ich gestern dieses Video zum ersten Mal sah, wünschte ich sehr, was da zu sehen ist, sei Propaganda oder Fehlinformation. Leider stellte es sich als bittere Realität heraus: Das ist eine Parade der YPG, also des bewaffneten Arms des syrischen PKK-Ablegers PYD, auf der ganz stolz und musikalisch unterlegt die Körper getöteter Kämpfer einer…

„Wenn es gelingt, Assad abzusetzen, könnte nach Moskauer Logik in Russland bald etwas Ähnliches passieren.“ Der russische Generalstabschef Gerassimow beschrieb auf der Sicherheitskonferenz in Moskau auch die Ereignisse in Syrien als eine Farbrevolution, die zu einem Krieg geführt habe. Dem Thema wurde eine ganze Diskussion gewidmet, bei der sich russische Generäle darauf einigten, dass Farbrevolutionen im Grund ein Kriegsmittel gegen…

„The last paediatrician in Aleppo has been killed in an airstrike believed to have been carried out by the Syrian regime. Reports from the besieged city said Dr Wassim was among 14 people killed when jets attacked the Al Quds hospital in Syria. The airstrike, which destroyed the hospital, was one of a number of attacks reported by emergency workers…

„The Syrian government cut deals with Islamic State to help the jihadists earn more than $40 million a month from the sale of oil, documents recovered from a US and British raid on a key commander have revealed. Thousands of spreadsheets and accounts kept by the group’s oil boss Abu Sayyaf, retrieved in the biggest intelligence raid in US Special…

„Recent comments by Iranian military personnel suggest that their support for the Assad government in the Syrian Civil War includes previously unknown contributions by the country’s conventional armed forces (the Artesh). Specifically, the deployment of advisors including those from the 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade. This revelation is significant because it hints at an increasingly expeditionary role for a branch…

„As Hezbollah, Iran and Assad are relentlessly using ‚Palestine‘ to justify their massacres and interference in Syria, we have rarely heard a word of sympathy toward the Syrian people from Palestinian political and public figures. As a matter of fact, except for a couple of writers, Palestinian journalists, intellectuals and artists have kept silent toward the atrocities against to the…

„Diplomacy has meanwhile made little progress with no compromise over the future of President Bashar al-Assad, his position strengthened by Iranian and Russian military support. A top Iranian official, in comments to Iran TV, rejected what he described as a U.S. request for Tehran’s help to make Assad leave power, saying he should serve out his term and be allowed…

„Two of Rabe’s brothers, Hassan and Hameed, were arrested in 2012 for helping to treat protesters injured while demonstrating against the Assad regime, Rabe said. Both had gone to pharmacy school, and had their own shop in Aleppo where they sold medicine. Rabe said they were detained for two months in the regime’s notorious Tadmor prison in Palmyra, the city…

„The women in the Syrian city of Raqqa suffer greatly under the oppression of the terrorist organization ‚Islamic State.‘ DW had exclusive access to some of those women, who spoke about their daily lives.“ (hier)

„‚Schlecht organisierte Terrorgruppen leben nicht lang‘, sagt Leah Farrall von der Universität Sydney, Expertin für die Geschichte des Dschihadismus (‚The Arabs at War in Afghanistan‘). ‚Der IS profitiert davon, dass er Formulare und Prozesse von Al-Kaida geerbt hat.‘ Die straffe Organisation ist aber nur die Oberfläche. Viel brisanter ist der Inhalt: Die ‚Anmerkungen‘ der IS-Grenzer gewähren Einblicke in die Persönlichkeiten…

„Russia decided to partially withdrawal its troop from Syria due to Moscow’s disappointment over failures by pro-regime Iranian and Hezbollah forces to achieve victories against opposition forces fighting to topple the Assad government, the Saudi news-site Elaph reported Monday night. According to the report, Russia had been concerned about air support and bombed regions where Iranian and Hezbollah troops were…