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Glünggi schrieb:«Im Namen der Menschlichkeit rufe ich die UNO und alle an die Freiheit glaubenden Länder – angeführt von den USA – dazu auf, angesichts der Situation in Syrien zu handeln», so al-Bahra weiter. Der Westen müsse schnell eingreifen, um die von den IS-Kämpfern und der syrischen Regierung von Präsident Baschar al-Assad «verübten Massaker gegen das unterdrückte syrische Volk» zu stoppen.
Im Namen der Menschlichkeit sollte man auch die vom SNC unterstützte Islamische Front stoppen.
"Das Bündnis der "Islamischen Front" gilt als wichtigste Rebellengruppierung in Syrien, die zugleich gegen Präsident Baschar al-Assad und die mit ihm verfeindeten Dschihadisten kämpft."
" Deir Essor - Kämpfer der Terrorgruppe "Islamischer Staat" (IS) haben nach Angaben von Aktivisten in Syrien innerhalb von zwei Wochen mehr als 700 Angehörige eines Stammes getötet. Der im Osten Syriens siedelnde Stamm der Schaitat hatte versucht, gegen die sunnitischen Dschihadisten aufzubegehren, wie die Syrische Beobachtungsstelle für Menschenrechte mitteilte. Unter den Toten seien hundert bewaffnete Kämpfer.
Bei den übrigen Todesopfern handelte es sich den Angaben zufolge um Zivilisten. Die Menschen seien in mehreren Dörfern der Provinz Deir Essor getötet worden, die größtenteils von der IS-Miliz kontrolliert werden."
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/massaker-in-syrien-dschihadisten-toeten-700-angehoerige-eines-stammes-a-986515.html1700 Menschen getötet in 7 Tagen, die Gewalteskalation ist ungeheuerlich und scheusslich.
Leider auf englisch, aber interessant, z.B. dass die 500 Mill. Dollar von USA an "moderate bewaffnete Gruppen erst im 2015 ankommen..,
oder dass von USA unterstützte "moderate Gruppe" Harakat Hazm interne Rivalenkämpfe ausführt gegen Ahrar al Sham (IF)..
"Understanding Syria’s four-front war
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Increasingly, we can talk about a war being fought on four overlapping fronts by four different actors: the Al-Assad government, IS, mainstream rebels and Kurds.
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Any implicit alliance was shattered this month, however, when IS stormed three separate government targets in the cities of Homs, Raqqa and Hassakeh, killing hundreds of government troops, then gruesomely videoing their severed heads impaled on spikes.
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Al-Assad also misread Syria’s second front: the war between IS and the mainstream rebels. He assumed that IS would finish off the weakened rebels before redirecting their war against him. True, IS has recently conquered many rebel territories, pushing the Al-Nusra Front out of Deir Al-Zur and making inroads into the Aleppo countryside, but it is no longer playing Al-Assad’s game.
As IS expands and occupies more land, it requires more troops and an acquiescent local population. While it still seeks military victories over rival rebel groups, it also wants to woo their fighters. Similarly, it is making more efforts to win hearts and minds in the regions it conquers. Turning its guns on Al-Assad’s forces achieves both goals: countering any former accusations that it was the government’s ally and presenting itself as the best route to its overthrow.
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On the other side, the mainstream rebels seem as divided as ever. While they temporarily united to push IS out of the north in January, the various militias and fiefdoms continue to compete for territory and resources.
The Washington Post has noted how the US’s closest ally,
the Harakat Hazm group, clashed with another group, Ahrar Al-Sham, over control of the Bab Al-Hawa border crossing last week.
Despite western attempts to paint these rebels as “moderate” the reality is that most are, more accurately “non-IS Islamists”, with the Al-Nusra Front being an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Given how fluid allegiance to the rebel militias has been, there is a real chance that idealistic young fighters impressed by IS’s momentum could peel away.
This is increasingly likely as the rebels face defeat in Syria’s third front: the war between themselves and Al-Assad. Ignoring IS, Al-Assad has focused on recapturing Aleppo. He has replicated the brutal tactics used to recapture Homs in March: depopulating hostile districts with barrel bombs before moving in to clear out the remaining rebel fighters.
Retaking Syria’s second city would allow Al-Assad to declare the war won, even if much of rural Syria remains outside of his control, and it would certainly cripple the rebels. This decline and IS’s surge have created a new urgency in Washington, and the familiar calls to “arm the rebels” have been heard again, with some proposing that the rebels be trained to simultaneously resist Al-Assad and IS.
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US President Barack Obama has authorised US$500 million to train and arm the rebels, but this won’t appear until 2015 and the covert weaponry delivered so far is restricted to eight small, carefully vetted groups, resulting in a limited impact.
Moreover, after the MH17 plane disaster in Ukraine, there is even less appetite in the White House to deliver the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles (known as Manpads, from the acronym for man-portable air-defence systems) that the hawks demand. More positively, after three years of backing rival rebel groups, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar seem to have been sobered by IS’s dramatic battlefield successes, and stronger coordination may follow.
These efforts may prove enough to keep the mainstream rebels in the field, probably around Deraa and Idleb, and may even prevent large numbers of fighters switching to IS. But it is unlikely that they can form a realistic rival to IS; the increased support will probably come too late to prevent Al-Assad’s march on Aleppo.
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Regardless of how IS’s recent charge has shifted, dissolved or solidified the Syrian civil war’s fronts and actors, its presence in the battlefield seems more likely to perpetuate the conflict rather than hurry its end."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/6979/32/Understanding-Syria%E2%80%99s-four-front-war.aspx (Archiv-Version vom 17.08.2014)
