[Centraal] Crisis in Syri� #249

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Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 20:42 schreef Atak het volgende:
Laten we zeggen dat Syri� 5000 tanks had 5 jaar geleden.

500 tanks niet battle-ready. Nooit gebruikt.

2500 tanks vernietigd door rebellen.

500 tanks overgenomen door rebellen.

500 tanks defect.

Mijn inschatting is dat Assad nog 1000 tanks overheeft.

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jackshahine twitterde op woensdag 11-03-2015 om 15:59:16 Ongoing heavy battles (Tel-Khenzir, Al-Menajir) west & south #SeriKanye NE #Syria#YPG repulsed #ISIS major offensive on area#TwitterKurds reageer retweet

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jackshahine twitterde op woensdag 11-03-2015 om 20:19:37 #YPG & #FSA r on the advance close to #QeraQuzak area & bridge while Coalition jets targeted #ISIS positions close to bridge#TwitterKurds reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 20:45 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
Ik weet niet hoe het met onderdelen en reparaties enzo zit, zowel rebellen als het leger lappen kapotte tanks ook vaak weer op.

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Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 20:47 schreef Atak het volgende:

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Hoeveel dan?

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US Defense Secretary: I Don’t Know If We Can Protect “Our” Rebels From Assad’s Forces

The US Defense Secretary has told Congress that he does not know if Washington has legal authority to protect Syrian rebels whom it trains from attack by President Assad’s forces.

Ash Carter told a Senate hearing, “My understanding of that question is that we don’t foresee that happening any time soon, but a legal determination, I’m told by the lawyers, has not been made, whether we would have authority to do that or not.”

The US has said that training will begin in late March of a force of “moderate” rebels, with a vision that they will confront the Islamic State. Washington has set a target of 3,000 men trained and equipped for battle by the end of 2015.

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Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 19:37 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:
ISIS mongooltjes hebben voor de zoveelste keer de fout gemaakt om de YPG aan te vallen

معارك تصدي الهجمات المرتزقة داعش في قرية تل خنزير غربي سري كانيية

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2015 01:43 schreef Slayage het volgende:
de vs en het syrie "beleid"

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2015 02:32 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Kap toch gewoon met dat hele trainen en ondersteunen van 'rebellen'. Het is allemaal een grote hoop tuig bij elkaar. Laat ze elkaar maar afmaken. Een redelijk alternatief voor Assad hebben ze na al die jaren nog steeds niet gepresenteerd.

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Iran’s parliament (Majlis) speaker says the country’s assisting Iraq to fight the ISIL prevented the terrorist group from invading other countries in the region.

If Iran had not helped Iraq, ISIL would have invaded countries in the region too, Ali Larijani said at a press conference held at the end of his visit to Qatar on Wednesday.

“Iran stood in the face of the ISIL to help Iraq and also the (other) countries of the region, although the main responsibility rested on the shoulders of the people of the country,” he said.

The ISIL currently controls parts of Iraq and Syria. It started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.

Iran has repeatedly stressed that it will not interfere militarily in Iraq and Syria, but that it will continue to provide support for both countries against ISIL in the form of defense consultation and humanitarian aid.

Iraq’s President Fuad Masum and First Vice President Nouri al-Maliki have acknowledged Tehran’s assistance in the anti-terror campaign.

Iran-Qatar ties

The visit saw the senior Iranian official meeting with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah, and Chairman of the Qatari Consultative Assembly Mohammed bin Mubarak al-Khulaifi.

Meeting with the Qatari foreign minister, Larijani said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran treats the Qatari emir’s observations regarding the regional issues as positive and is after the expansion of cooperation based on mutual respect.”

“The establishment of security and development in the Middle East region would materialize through the assistance of all the regional countries,” the Iranian official added.

The Qatari official said what the countries shared was more than what they differed on and that they had to take steps towards the development of bilateral relations based on common ground.

Nuclear talks

Larijani said Iran’s nuclear talks with the P5+1 group -- Britain, France, China, the United States and Russia plus Germany -- have featured progress.

However, he said, “We had to prioritize an intellectual perspective of the talks over a business-minded one.”

Iran and the P5+1 are seeking to seal a comprehensive nuclear deal by July 1. The two sides have already missed two self-imposed deadlines for inking a final agreement since they signed an interim one in the Swiss city of Geneva in November 2013.

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2015 07:56 schreef firefly3 het volgende:

Ahrar al-Sham has joined the controversy regarding Jabhat al-Nusra possibly breaking off with al-Qaeda. A very prominent Ahrar al-Sham leader harshly criticized al-Nusra for sticking with al-Qaeda.

http://www.al-monitor.com(...)&utm_medium=twitter#

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A new United Nations-backed report details the economic and societal devastation of the four-year war in Syria, where the violence of a multiparty civil conflict has become further inflamed by a multinational battle against Islamic State militants.

The report, released Tuesday, says the war has cost the Syrian economy an estimated $202.6 billion dollars and brought "drastic levels of inequality and inequity" to people across the country who struggle to find food.

The result has been a spike in unemployment, which shot from about 15 percent at the start of the war in 2011 to nearly 58 percent by the end of last year. That left almost 4 million people out of work in a country where the population has also dropped from about 21 million to 17.5 million since the fighting began.

"The ruinous decent into poverty in Syria continued in 2014 when just over four in every five Syrians lived in poverty," the report said.

There has been no real progress in bringing a political resolution to the conflict. The fighting has killed 220,000 people, sent 3.8 million refugees into neighboring countries and forced another 6.8 million to flee their homes within Syria.

The Syrian Center for Policy Research authored the report, supported by the U.N. Development Program and the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, which operates camps within Syria.

According to the report, the years of violence have had a particular effect on Syrian children, with half of them no longer attending school and many missing three years of classes. The U.N. said in December that a quarter of the country's schools had been damaged or destroyed, along with half of its hospitals.

"Equally horrendous is the silent disaster that has reduced life expectancy at birth from 75.9 years in 2010 to an estimated 55.7 years at the end of 2014," the report says, "reducing longevity and life expectancy by 27 percent."

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Misschien wist een deel het al, maar ik denk het grootste deel nog niet: Turkije probeerde Syrie binnen te vallen, onder een valse vlag.

Ik ben hier net achter gekomen door een afgetapt telefoongesprek. Er komen verschillende dingen aan bod, zoals een false flag onder het mom dat de Suleyman Tombe aangevallen werd. Of dat ISIS aangevallen zou worden, met als doel om heel Syrie te veroveren. Ook spraken de Turkse heren erover dat er binnenlandse aanslagen zouden komen, maar hoe ze daarop reageerden komt er niet in terug.
Hier een deel van het gesprek:
http://pastebin.com/hVAT6TD1

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Johan Cosar, a Swiss citizen who has been fighting against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, was arrested in Basel upon his return to Switzerland, accused of illegally fighting for a foreign army.
The 32-year-old Cosar, who was born in St Gallen and grew up in Locarno, is currently free on bail but faces up to three years in prison if convicted of fighting for a foreign military force without permission, according to Swiss Public Television, RSI.
Military justice proceedings against Cosar were launched last autumn while he was still in Syria. In December 2014, Cosar told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps that his intention in travelling to Syria was never to fight – instead, he first worked as a journalist for Italian-language Swiss media.

“I didn’t go to Syria intending to fight,” he said. “I found myself in the middle of a civil war, in a situation where you have to take up arms to protect yourself.”
Cosar is of Syriac origin – a Christian minority currently among groups being targeted by IS fighters. After going to Syria to “see with my own eyes what was happening on the ground”, as Cosar told Le Temps, the former Swiss army sergeant helped found the Syriac Military Council, a group intended to help Christian minorities defend themselves against IS aggression.

“I started looking at their lack of organisation, so I began to give some tips to the Assyrian guys here on starting the militia, and that became my new role,” he recently explained to the magazine Foreign Policy.
However, although he relied on his Swiss army training in building up the Syriac Military Council, Cosar has frequently told the media that his decision to fight in Syria has nothing to do with Switzerland, nor does it pose a threat to the country where he was raised.
“I didn’t do anything against Switzerland and I’m sure the Swiss understand this,” he told German news outlet Deutsche Welle last year.

According to Article 94 of Swiss military law, any Swiss “who enlists in foreign military service without the authorisation of the cabinet will be punished with a fine or a prison sentence of up to three years”.

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2015 09:20 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:
Ook al in het Iraktopic, maar hier nogmaals voor diegene die het niet wist:

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Op donderdag 12 maart 2015 07:20 schreef firefly3 het volgende:

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Zelfs de lokale groenteboer is een betere alternatief voor assad.

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markito0171 twitterde op donderdag 12-03-2015 om 10:40:59 #Syria #Aleppo Rebels shelling #Assad-forces inside Bashkuy village https://t.co/XlNatibuCO http://t.co/8qHfxqqNVz reageer retweet

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archicivilians twitterde op donderdag 12-03-2015 om 10:28:40 VIDEO: Jabhat Akrad (Kurdish Rebels) fighting the Regime in Bustan Pasha district in #Aleppo City.#Syria https://t.co/n2nLgOOEvo reageer retweet