Bürgerkrieg in Syrien

A variety of groups control rebel-held Aleppo. As in the rest of the country, Islamists are the most prominent. The strongest rebel group is Al-Jabha Al-Shamiya, which claims 10,000 fighters throughout Syria. Of those fighters, 1,500 are from its “Security Institution” (its own Mukahbarat).

“Aleppo is a jungle,” one “judge” from the Security Institution said to me, after interrogating me for taking photographs. He, offering me a cigarette and a glass of tea, was referring to the lack of discipline amongst the rebel ranks. In recent days, his group had been at odds with the Free Syrian Army’s 16th Division. After mutual accusations of kidnapping, each group placed more checkpoints at vital junctions, and each mobilized their fighters for a confrontation. Three days later, the two sides agreed to free each other’s hostages. The problem may have been solved, for now, but it wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last.
This distrust between rebel groups is throughout—accusations of betrayal or of following foreign agendas lead to clashes that can erupt at any time.
This infighting provokes the anger of residents in the rebel neighborhoods. Many blame these disputes, and the resulting lack of coordination, for halting the rebels’ advance. In more idealistic days, someone drew a mural on a wall in the Al-Ferdous neighborhood—it shows an F.S.A. fighter bleeding. The original caption read: “(People) forgive us if we make mistakes. We, the F.S.A., are dying for you.”

On it, someone added the word “liar.”

This anger boils when the sky starts raining barrel bombs.

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Fighters belonging to the local Islamist group, Fastaqim Kama Umert, parade in the Jsr Al-Haj bridge roundabout on May 23.

Sersch schrieb:Ich glaube das kann momentan keiner so genau sagen.

Fedaykin schrieb:Frage ob die Russen dann irgednwann Bodentruppen schicken.

Residents in the areas hit by Moscow late last week described widespread destruction of houses and buildings. “The destruction is incredible, and all of them are civilian homes,” said Adnan Kanjo, the head of the local council in Derrat al-Izza in western Aleppo. “This is the first time we see destruction at this scale. There is intense fear and terror – we can’t even open our schools.”

“The regime’s planes could bomb maybe one or two buildings, but now a whole district is destroyed. There is no specific time and we can’t take any more precautions. If you are destined to get killed you will get killed.

“These Russian warplanes say they are targeting Daesh [Isis],” he added. “Well, we have not had Daesh here in over a year. Marea [which Isis is besieging] is 60km away. And al-Bab [which it controls] is over 100km away. The bombing is targeting civilians. And where are the people going to go? I leave this question to be answered by the people who still have a conscience.”

Mohammad al-Ibrahim, a resident of Maarat al Numan, in Idlib province said: “Whenever they hear [planes], the families run into these small caves that they dug up in the ground a while ago. My little brothers’ faces go pale … and they don’t utter a word for 20 minutes.”

A resident of the town of Atshan in eastern Hama, not far from the Tajamul Ala’Azza base said rebel units had developed an effective routine to hide from the airstrikes, but civilians remained exposed and often helpless.

“The Free Syrian army fighters are protected, they can take shelter underground, and the planes aren’t having much of an effect on the progress of the battles on the ground,” he said. “But what pains the fighters is the civilian deaths and how they are forced to leave their destroyed homes.

Die EU-Aussenminister machen deutlich: Russland muss das militärische Vorgehen gegen gemässigte oppositionelle Gruppen in Syrien beenden. Angriffe, die sich nicht gegen die Dschihadisten-Miliz Islamischer Staat (IS) oder andere von der UNO als Terroristen eingestufte Gruppen richteten, müssten stoppen», heisst es in einer Erklärung der EU-Aussenminister.

Derweil haben sich mehrere syrische Milizen im Kampf gegen den IS zu einem neuen Militärbündnis zusammengeschlossen. Zur Allianz Demokratische Kräfte Syrien gehören neben den kurdischen Volksschutzeinheiten (YPG) unter anderem Einheiten der moderaten Freien Syrischen Armee (FSA), wie die Syrische Beobachtungsstelle für Menschenrechte erklärte.

Die Militärallianz wird demnach von der Koalition westlicher und sunnitisch-arabischer Staaten unterstützt, die unter Führung der USA seit mehr als einem Jahr IS-Ziele in Syrien aus der Luft angreift. Ziel sei es, die nordsyrische Stadt Al-Rakka aus den Händen der Extremisten zu befreien. Sie gilt als heimliche Hauptstadt des IS in Syrien.

Das Bündnis ist das Ergebnis einer neuen Syrienpolitik der USA. US-Medien hatten berichtet, Washington wolle im Nordosten Syriens eine Truppe von mehr als 20'000 Kurden und bis zu 5000 Arabern fördern. Die Milizen sollten auch mit Waffen ausgerüstet werden.

Glünggi schrieb:Die EU-Aussenminister machen deutlich: Russland muss das militärische Vorgehen gegen gemässigte oppositionelle Gruppen in Syrien beenden.

Im Kampf gegen den IS schlossen sich unterdessen im Nordosten des Landes mehrere vom Westen unterstützte Milizen zu einem neuen Militärbündnis zusammen. Zu der Allianz Demokratische Kräfte Syriens gehören neben den kurdischen Volksschutzeinheiten (YPG) unter anderem Einheiten der moderaten Freien Syrischen Armee (FSA), wie die Syrische Beobachtungsstelle erklärte.

WASHINGTON: U.S.-led coalition forces have parachuted ammunition to Syrian rebels fighting ISIS, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.

"Coalition forces conducted an airdrop Sunday in northern Syria to resupply local counter-ISIL ground forces as they conduct operations against ISIL," a U.S. Central Command spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder said in a statement, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.

SouthBalkan schrieb:Die USA bewaffnen islamistische Terroristen in Syrien und gehören vor den internationalen Strafgerichtshof.

shionoro schrieb:Assad unterstützen ist out of question, itm rebellenunterstützung