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Maybe on beginning, conflict was looked like a regional, but now has a new dimension.
A lot of refugees has come in European countries and a terrorist with them
Now everything depends of action of religious lunatics,because normal people haven't a vision for reaction....
Dangerous time for living.
A lot of refugees has come in European countries and a terrorist with them
Now everything depends of action of religious lunatics,because normal people haven't a vision for reaction....
Dangerous time for living.
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Syrian rebel leader quits after interview with Israeli
Following an interview with an Israeli researcher, Jaysh al-Islam spokesman Islam Aloush has quit his position 'for the public interest' as the Shia press has a field day; Shia press claims interview is proof of jihadist-Zionist-American conspiracy against the Assad regime.
Roi Kais|Published: 31.08.16 , 10:01
Its hard to keep track of the number of rebel factions fighting in the Syrian civil war. However, one of the major rebel confederations, comprised of over 40 rebel groups with Sunni Salafist Islamic ideologies is Jaysh al-Islam - or Army of Islam.
This enormous confederation of fighting groups operates primarily in the areas around Damascus and controls territory in Lebanon. Along with fighting against the Assad regime, they also fight against ISIS and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). They are allied with groups such as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat a-Nusra), Ahrar a-Sham, and both the Turkish and Saudi governments.
Recently, Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov at the Forum for Regional Thinking held a rare interview with Jaysh al-Islam spokesman Islam Aloush.
Elizabeth Tsurkov
"I've been researching Syria for years and have been in contact with hundreds of Syrians all over the country,as well as refugees. I've never hidden my Israeli identity," Tsurkov said.
"Over the years I've interviewed activists, fighters, civic leaders, and politicians – almost always on condition of anonymity," she explained. "This is out of their fear that they would be viewed as 'collaborators' with Israel. The only ones who let me use their names have been Syrian refugees in Europe and Turkey. There's a really big taboo against talking to Israeli media or even with Israelis. It's seen as normalization with Israel and a lack of solidarity with the Palestinians."
Tsurkov went on to explain how she met with Syrian political and military leaders in southern Turkey.
"None of them wanted to be photographed. That’s why I was so happy and surprised when Islam Aloush – the Jaysh al-Islam spokesman – allowed me to use his name when I published my interview with him. I thought that demonstrated bravery, and hoped that it wouldn't negatively impact him."
During the interview, Aloush expressed pessimism regarding the possibility that the warring sides would come to a political solution to end the war, and said that the Syrian regime is a "purely security and militaristic institution."
Former Jaysh al-Islam spokesman Islam Aloush
Meanwhile, he called Hezbollah a "gang which opposes the freedom which all nations aspire to, including the Syrian nation."
He also rejected accusations that his organization – which controls large swaths of the Damascus countryside – acts with the same tyranny and impunity towards the civilians in the area that the Assad regime does.
Tsurkov also asked Aloush what Jaysh al-Islam's position is in regards to a peace agreement between Israel and Syria. He said that "this issue and other issues of Syrian foreign policy will be determined by the government institutions which will be founded once the Syrian revolution succeeds and the Syrian people are able to vote freely. We will not deny any decision made by the Syrian people, as the Assad regime has done for the past 40 years."
Shiite reactions
Media outlets affiliated with the Assad regime, Hezbollah, and Iran jumped at the opportunity to dirty the name of Jaysh al-Islam, and covered the interview extensively, focusing on Aloush's answers as they relate to Israel.
Hezbollah newspaper Al-Akhbar had the headline "Islam Aloush: I'm not opposed to peace with Israel," while Syrian newspaper Al-Watan wrote "Speaking from an Israeli stage: Jaysh al-Islam isn't optimistic that a political solution to the Syrian crisis will be reached, and doesn't oppose peace with Israel."
A screenshot from Hezbollah affiliated Al-Akhbar newspaper. The headline reads 'Islam Aloush: I'm not against peace with Israel.'
While Tsurkov indeed translated the interview from Arabic to Hebrew for Israeli audiences, she said that Iranian, Hezbollah, and Syrian media outlets completely distorted the interview.
"These media outlets have an interest in 'proving' the existence of a jihadist-Zionist-American conspiracy against the Assad regime. The regime's propaganda has been claiming this since the peaceful uprising in Syria began in March 2011. They've jumped on this (interview) and are holding it up as proof (of the conspiracy) despite the fact that I'm a researcher and human rights activist who researches Israeli policy vis-à-vis the Palestinians."
A few days after the interview as published and made waves in Arabic media, Aloush published a message on twitter whereby he officially resigned from his position as spokesperson ''for the public good'', creating confusion and surprise throughout Jaysh al-Islam.
"There are many Syrians who are prepared to speak with me, and I have a lot of close Syrian friends," Tsurkov said. "However, only a small portion of them are prepared to be open (about our friendship) out of fear that they will be suspected of being spies, especially in light of the prevalent conspiracies circulating around Syria suggesting that Israel supports Assad and is preventing his downfall."
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#BREAKING: #SAA fully restores the #Technical base in southern #Aleppo Large map: tps://aml.ink/elJNR
#SAA soldiers from inside the Air force #technical base in #Aleppo, 90% under control.
#SAA soldiers from inside the Air force #technical base in #Aleppo, 90% under control.
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good people pound bad people in southern Aleppo today
about 500 bad people killed in southern Aleppo offensive so far
https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/501n1o/update_list_of_names_of_448_rebel_militants/
good people recaptured the technical college
Lebanese Shia in southern Aleppo today
about 500 bad people killed in southern Aleppo offensive so far
https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/501n1o/update_list_of_names_of_448_rebel_militants/
good people recaptured the technical college
Lebanese Shia in southern Aleppo today
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UN accuses regime of launching chemical attacks, Kahraman Haliscelik reports
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The blue colored area are liberated by Syrian rebels in few days. Technically the Syrian rebels are ~10 Km away from Hamah.
What are Assad Shabihas going to do to prevent such a huge lose?
I mean they brought Iran/Russia/Hezbollah/Iraqi JAHSH Militia/ PAK & Afghani Mutah terrorists but they couldn't prevent the advance of rebels with light weapons?
How pathetic.
What are Assad Shabihas going to do to prevent such a huge lose?
I mean they brought Iran/Russia/Hezbollah/Iraqi JAHSH Militia/ PAK & Afghani Mutah terrorists but they couldn't prevent the advance of rebels with light weapons?
How pathetic.
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WORLD NEWS | Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:26pm EDT
After Turkish offensive, Syrian town starts erasing legacy of Islamic State
A member of Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), seen with the Islamic State flags in the background, walks outside of a building in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Girls sit in front of their home in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
A boy holding a rifle stands next to a member of Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Women sit in front of their home in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters patrol in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
A girl carries water in a plastic can, with Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in the background, in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Women are pictured with Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in the background in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
By David Dolan | JARABLUS, SYRIA
The silhouette of an Islamic State fighter on a rearing horse, a black flag in his hand and a saber by his side, is among the disappearing traces of the jihadists' grip on this Syrian border town a week after Turkish-backed rebels swept in.
Murals scrawled on walls by the ultra-hardline Islamists who ran Jarablus for three years are gradually being covered with blue paint. Children play again in dusty streets, their hair matted with sweat and dirt, while women hang laundry outside buildings on the edge of town, some of them half-destroyed.
"It is ecstasy," said Husyein Kakmaz, 46, a Jarablus resident who made his living as a driver before Islamic State seized the town, nestled in hazelnut and olive groves on the border with Turkey.
"Life was not life. There were so many prohibitions, no smoking, women couldn't show their faces," he said, speaking Turkish and describing life under the jihadist group.
Syrian rebels, mostly Arab and Turkmen, swept into Jarablus last Wednesday in an incursion backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and jets, an operation meant to drive Islamic State from the town and surrounding territory and to prevent Kurdish militia fighters from seizing control in their wake.
A week on, there is little sign of the Turkish military presence. Syrian rebel fighters, some in camouflage fatigues and sandals, others in civilian clothes, are the ones in control, patrolling on motorbikes and in flat-bed Toyota trucks.
Celebratory gunfire rang out as some of the young rebels shot into the air and flashed victory signs, wanting their pictures taken and showing off for a gaggle of mostly Turkish TV cameras on a visit facilitated by the Turkish government.
The rebels and their Turkish backers announced they were in control of Jarablus within hours of mounting their operation last week, but the town still sits on the edge of a highly active war zone. Three Turkish soldiers were wounded on Tuesday after their tank came under fire west of Jarablus.
Yasin Darvish, a doctor in a small, dingy clinic, said the jihadists had taken everything as they fled, leaving barely enough supplies to treat the wounded. Food and medical aid have been brought in from Turkey.
"They took every piece of equipment so the hospital is empty. There are just emergency supplies and not even an X-ray machine," he said, adding 30 patients had been brought in on Wednesday alone, some with injuries from landmines.
"THEY EVEN TOOK THE OVEN"
Bread and drinkable water are in short supply in the once-thriving trading town and there is little sign of commercial life. Children burned a pile of rubbish on a street corner under the blistering heat.
"There's no bread, no electricity, because they took everything when they fled. They took the generators," said one resident, Adil, 47, who had worked as a lawyer before the war.
"There was one oven in the bakery and they even took that," he said. Residents were afraid to draw water from the Euphrates river on the town's eastern fringe, he said, because the jihadists had laid landmines there.
Jarablus sits on the northeastern edge of a rectangle of Syrian territory some 80 km (50 miles) long, seized by Islamic State as it carved its self-declared caliphate out of a swathes of Syria and Iraq.
Turkey and the United States have long hoped that by sweeping Islamic State from this border zone, they can deprive it of a smuggling route which has seen its ranks swollen with foreign fighters and its coffers boosted by illicit trade.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday the aim of the military incursion, dubbed "Operation Euphrates Shield", was to "cleanse" the strip of territory of all militant groups and threats to Turkish security.
But this is a complex corner of Syria's five-year war.
Just to the east, over the Euphrates, lies territory controlled by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia also fighting the jihadists, but seen by Turkey as a hostile force, an extension of militants who have fought a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy in southeastern Turkey.
Turkish forces have clashed with Kurdish fighters as they push deeper into Syria south of Jarablus, meaning the town and its surroundings remain on the edge of an active frontline.
"I am not against the Kurds, they are good guys, they give us cigarettes," said Adil, adding Kurdish fighters had come within a few kilometers south of the town.
"Big countries are fighting. We are just the people under their boots."
(Additional reporting by Umit Bektas; Writing by Nick Tattersall; editing by Anna Willard)
After Turkish offensive, Syrian town starts erasing legacy of Islamic State
A member of Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), seen with the Islamic State flags in the background, walks outside of a building in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Girls sit in front of their home in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
A boy holding a rifle stands next to a member of Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Women sit in front of their home in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters patrol in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
A girl carries water in a plastic can, with Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in the background, in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Women are pictured with Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in the background in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
By David Dolan | JARABLUS, SYRIA
The silhouette of an Islamic State fighter on a rearing horse, a black flag in his hand and a saber by his side, is among the disappearing traces of the jihadists' grip on this Syrian border town a week after Turkish-backed rebels swept in.
Murals scrawled on walls by the ultra-hardline Islamists who ran Jarablus for three years are gradually being covered with blue paint. Children play again in dusty streets, their hair matted with sweat and dirt, while women hang laundry outside buildings on the edge of town, some of them half-destroyed.
"It is ecstasy," said Husyein Kakmaz, 46, a Jarablus resident who made his living as a driver before Islamic State seized the town, nestled in hazelnut and olive groves on the border with Turkey.
"Life was not life. There were so many prohibitions, no smoking, women couldn't show their faces," he said, speaking Turkish and describing life under the jihadist group.
Syrian rebels, mostly Arab and Turkmen, swept into Jarablus last Wednesday in an incursion backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and jets, an operation meant to drive Islamic State from the town and surrounding territory and to prevent Kurdish militia fighters from seizing control in their wake.
A week on, there is little sign of the Turkish military presence. Syrian rebel fighters, some in camouflage fatigues and sandals, others in civilian clothes, are the ones in control, patrolling on motorbikes and in flat-bed Toyota trucks.
Celebratory gunfire rang out as some of the young rebels shot into the air and flashed victory signs, wanting their pictures taken and showing off for a gaggle of mostly Turkish TV cameras on a visit facilitated by the Turkish government.
The rebels and their Turkish backers announced they were in control of Jarablus within hours of mounting their operation last week, but the town still sits on the edge of a highly active war zone. Three Turkish soldiers were wounded on Tuesday after their tank came under fire west of Jarablus.
Yasin Darvish, a doctor in a small, dingy clinic, said the jihadists had taken everything as they fled, leaving barely enough supplies to treat the wounded. Food and medical aid have been brought in from Turkey.
"They took every piece of equipment so the hospital is empty. There are just emergency supplies and not even an X-ray machine," he said, adding 30 patients had been brought in on Wednesday alone, some with injuries from landmines.
"THEY EVEN TOOK THE OVEN"
Bread and drinkable water are in short supply in the once-thriving trading town and there is little sign of commercial life. Children burned a pile of rubbish on a street corner under the blistering heat.
"There's no bread, no electricity, because they took everything when they fled. They took the generators," said one resident, Adil, 47, who had worked as a lawyer before the war.
"There was one oven in the bakery and they even took that," he said. Residents were afraid to draw water from the Euphrates river on the town's eastern fringe, he said, because the jihadists had laid landmines there.
Jarablus sits on the northeastern edge of a rectangle of Syrian territory some 80 km (50 miles) long, seized by Islamic State as it carved its self-declared caliphate out of a swathes of Syria and Iraq.
Turkey and the United States have long hoped that by sweeping Islamic State from this border zone, they can deprive it of a smuggling route which has seen its ranks swollen with foreign fighters and its coffers boosted by illicit trade.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday the aim of the military incursion, dubbed "Operation Euphrates Shield", was to "cleanse" the strip of territory of all militant groups and threats to Turkish security.
But this is a complex corner of Syria's five-year war.
Just to the east, over the Euphrates, lies territory controlled by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia also fighting the jihadists, but seen by Turkey as a hostile force, an extension of militants who have fought a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy in southeastern Turkey.
Turkish forces have clashed with Kurdish fighters as they push deeper into Syria south of Jarablus, meaning the town and its surroundings remain on the edge of an active frontline.
"I am not against the Kurds, they are good guys, they give us cigarettes," said Adil, adding Kurdish fighters had come within a few kilometers south of the town.
"Big countries are fighting. We are just the people under their boots."
(Additional reporting by Umit Bektas; Writing by Nick Tattersall; editing by Anna Willard)
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The blue colored area are liberated by Syrian rebels in few days. Technically the Syrian rebels are ~10 Km away from Hamah.
What are Assad Shabihas going to do to prevent such a huge lose?
I mean they brought Iran/Russia/Hezbollah/Iraqi JAHSH Militia/ PAK & Afghani Mutah terrorists but they couldn't prevent the advance of rebels with light weapons?
How pathetic.
Where they farmers with pitchforks?
