Leider wieder alles nur auf englisch.
Aber die Kämpfe sind eskaliert, die Zahlen erschreckend,
"Syria Records One of Its Deadliest Weeks Ever
Last week, 700 people died in two days in Syria, in what has been described as the deadliest 48-hour period in the country since its conflict began more than four years ago. And 1,700 are reported to have died in the last seven days, in one of the worst weeks on record.
As the global spotlight shifted to Gaza, the past month has been particularly brutal in Syria. Why? Experts cite a bloody fight between Assad forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for control of the large Shaar gas field, east of Homs; an increased regime offensive in Aleppo; and clashes between ISIS, which is rapidly consolidating its territory in the east, and rebel factions like Jabhat al-Nusra.
Joshua Landis, Editor of Syria Comment and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma:
Deaths have increased because fighting has increased. ISIS is attacking the regime now and they're also trying to consolidate, and they're attacking the other militias. They are on a real tear. The whole of Deir Ezzor province saw lots of fighting this month, and there's been a lot of fighting in the Kurdish areas as well.
There's also been a lot of fighting among the more moderate militias, because everyone is jockeying for territory – they want to get their own states. Nusra announced more than a week ago that it was establishing an emirate. And once you do that, you need to fight to gain exclusive authority in your territory. The ISIS declaration of a caliphate caused a domino effect, and there's a big scramble for northern Syria, which means militias have gone to war with each other.
Theodore Karasik, director of research and development at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA):
It seems that ISIS's advance into Iraq and also its swing back into Syria has ignited other groups to act out on their own. The various Islamic groups are fighting to make gains.
The siege of Aleppo factors in because it has become a main area of power and influence for all sides, and that has catapulted the issue of Aleppo's future front and center. The death toll is rising rapidly because the nature of the battles is producing higher casualty rates – they're occurring in urban areas, and during the holy month of Ramadan. For me, an uptick of violence during Ramadan is tied to religious discourse about the significance of [the idea of being martyred during] the holy month.
Under the concept of strategic distraction – [with the world watching] events that are occurring in Gaza and even in the Ukraine – this might be an opportune time [for all sides] to try to make advances, with Syria off the front page.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/syria-records-deadliest-weeks/story?id=24716889In Raqqa wurden Dhihad- Frauen-Equipe, al-Khansaa' Brigade, etabliert, erst zu Checkpoint-Einsätzen, da ja Männer nicht normal mit Frauen kommunizieren dürfen,
und Untersuchung.
Nun haben sie anscheinend auch Patrouillen übernommen.
Dominierung Frauen und deren Vertreibung, wenn nicht verschleiert und in männlicher Begleitung,
von Strasse ist gängiges Druckmittel Taliban, Iran, S.A., etc., erleichtert absolute Herrschaft.
Die Dhihad-Frauen Brigade ist aus Frauen der IS-Kämpfer und Einheimischen zusammengesetzt.
" All-Female ISIS Brigade Cracks Down on Women in Raqqa
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"The women who join the brigade are either women of Raqqa who wanted to take part in ISIS's activities there, or, often, the wives of mujahedeen who have come to fight from other parts of Syria or the region.
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ISIS created it to terrorize women," says Abu al-Hamza, a local media activist. He says the brigade raided the city's Hamida Taher Girls School and arrested 10 students, two teachers and a secretary on the grounds that some of them were wearing veils that were too thin. Others were accused of wearing hair clips under the veil, pinning them in a way that showed too much of their faces.
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The fighter told Zainab she had been arrested because she had been walking alone, without an escort, and because her hijab was not worn properly. "You should be punished for taking your religion lightly," she told Zainab, before threatening harsher punishment should she be arrested again. "
http://abcnews.go.com/International/female-isis-brigade-cracks-women-raqqa/story?id=24622389"The ISIS Crackdown on Women, by Women
ISIS's all-female brigade and the slowly growing role of female jihadis
In other words, whatever job the group was formed for, the women of the al-Khansaa Brigade aren’t just staffing checkpoints anymore. Hegghammer says whether or not female morality enforcement brigades spread more widely, their presence in Raqaa is indicative of a bigger, slow-moving shift toward allowing women “more operative” roles in the jihadi movement. “There is a process of female emancipation taking place in the jihadi movement, albeit a very limited (and morbid) one,” Hegghammer says.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/the-women-of-isis/375047/"This strategy of using women to discipline other women is not a new one; it has been previously employed by Saudi Arabia and Iran, both of which have various brigades consisting of all-female morality police members. In a state where women are largely powerless, giving some of them a modicum of power over others creates dissension within their ranks and eliminates opportunities for protest. Simply put, women's anger is directed not towards the patriarchal oppression imposed by men (in this case via the use of religious distortions) but towards other women who have just a little more power than themselves. In this way, women stand divided, separated in the case of the ISIS-controlled Raqqa by divisions created by men. The chosen women deemed pious by the ever superior judgment of men are recruited into Al Khansaa Brigade. All other women are automatically demoted, left open to the judgments of the ones chosen by men, to policewomen."
http://observerbd.com/details.php?id=33901"Women in Raqqa, Syria walk past a billboard urging women to wear the veil. (Reuters)."