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Noël Mamère va devoir dénoncer le New York Times : voilà que même Anne Barnard se met à écrire des horreurs : Snipers Slam Shut an Escape Hatch From a Syrian Hell
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/world/middleeast/snipers-evacuations-ghouta-syria.html

Rebel snipers are preventing Syrian civilians from leaving the besieged area of eastern Ghouta through a corridor opened this week by the government to facilitate evacuations, a United Nations official said.

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Mr. Malik said that two people had been killed by rebel snipers as a family tried to escape through a corridor from the eastern Ghouta city of Douma, though two children managed to make it to the other side. That area is controlled by a rebel group called the Army of Islam.

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Lousy Western media coverage of Middle East: why you need to know Arabic (the strange case of Liz Sly)
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/03/lousy-western-media-coverage-of-middle.html

I have reported many times that Liz Sly qualifies as one of the worst reporters covering the Middle East today, and there is still competition. Just yesterday, she posted that Syrian regime media did not report about the anniversary of the Ba`thist coup. (Image shown). In reality, the anniversary was marked in all Syrian regime media but how would she know? She only reads English. In fact, she often reports what Syrian rebel media report without checking for verification. I have attached an image of the front page of the Syrian regime mouthpiece below, where the anniversary is marked on the front page. But then again: imagine if you send me to China, and I tweet observations about the Chinese regime media without any knowledge of Chinese.

(Chez nous, ce sont même les “experts” qui, bien souvent, ne parlent un mot d’arabe !)

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U.S.-backed rebels launched their first attack against Islamic State. They lost.
▻http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-us-rebels-20160629-snap-story.html

Video posted by the news agency showed jubilant Islamic State fighters parading in trucks sporting the New Syrian Army’s insignia and fawning over heavy weapons and ammunition belts apparently captured in the fighting.

[…]

The New Syrian Army, however, had promised to be different.

It first appeared in November 2015 with the stated goal of pushing Islamic State out of the eastern Syrian desert. Since then, its fighters have shown up in slickly produced videos uploaded to social media that depict uniformed men training with U.S. weapons.

Analysts say the group – which is headquartered near Tanf, a southern town close to where the borders of Jordan, Iraq and Syria converge – has also received support from Jordanian special forces units.

Wednesday’s defeat, however, may have cost the group a full fifth of its cadres.

Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the pro-opposition monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, estimated that the rebel group had comprised about 125 fighters, but that after Islamic State’s counteroffensive “they are probably less than a hundred.”

“They did nothing,” he said. “They went to the border and came back. This was more a media show than anything else.”

Bon courage à l’agence de pub américaine qui gère leur compte Twitter…

Le régime syrien annonce une offensive soutenue par la Russie pour prendre tout Alep , où dans le sud une contre-offensive du régime et de ses alliés tente déjà de récupérer le terrain perdu ces derniers jours face à l’offensive récente d’une coalition comprenant al-Nousra, des groupes salafistes et d’autres affiliés à l’ASL.
Syrian PM says Russia to back new Aleppo attack ; opposition says truce near collapse
Reuters / 10.04.16
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKCN0X70GE

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaki told a delegation of visiting Russian lawmakers of preparations to “liberate” Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city and commercial hub before the conflict that erupted in 2011. Aleppo is divided into areas controlled separately by the government and opposition.
“We, together with our Russian partners, are preparing for an operation to liberate Aleppo and to block all illegal armed groups which have not joined or have broken the ceasefire deal,” he was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.
Dmitry Sablin, a member of Russia’s upper house of parliament and a member of the delegation, told RIA news agency “Russian aviation will help the Syrian army’s ground offensive operation”.

L’opposition de Ryadh déclare que la cessation des hostilités est sur le point de s’effondrer :

A member of the main opposition council said the last 10 days had “witnessed a serious deterioration, to the point where the ceasefire is about to collapse”. Bassma Kodmani of the High Negotiations Committee also told Journal du Dimanche that a U.S.-Russian ceasefire monitoring mission was “powerless”.
The army says groups that had agreed to the cessation of hostilities had taken part in Nusra Front attacks on government-held positions south of Aleppo. Free Syrian Army groups meanwhile blame the fighting on government violations.
“The air strikes are now roughly back to what they were,” said Mohamed Rasheed, head of the media office with the Jaysh al-Nasr rebel group. A Syrian military source said: “The battles are raging because ... armed groups that were part of the (truce) joined Nusra in the attack.”

Tandis qu’on annonce l’arrivée de renforts nombreux pour le régime du côté d’Alep, tout semble en place pour une confrontation majeure du côté de Lattaquieh (frontière turque) et à Alep. Les Russes, les Iraniens et le régime semblent vouloir infliger une leçon à tous les groupes qui se sont alliés à al-Nousra, non seulement en récupérant le terrain perdu récemment, mais en réalisant des faits nouveaux sur le terrain.
Qu’en pensent les Américains ? Jusqu’où va leur entente avec les Russes ?

Kyiv, Separatists Report Armored Clash Despite Cease-Fire
▻http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-army-separatists-armored-clash/27181238.html

Vladyslav Seleznyov, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff, said on August 10 that Ukrainian forces had managed to maintain control over the town of Starohnativka after a separatist attack.

Starohnativka is located about halfway between separatist-held Donetsk and Kyiv-controlled Mariupol.

Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, told reporters in Kyiv that up to 400 separatists supported by 10 tanks and 10 armored personnel carriers and other vehicles attacked Ukrainian positions overnight.

According to Lysenko, “the enemy suffered significant losses in personnel and equipment.”

Meanwhile, the de facto defense minister of the separatist Donetsk People Republic, Eduard Basurin, says forces under his command stopped an attempt by Ukrainian forces to advance in the same area on August 10.

According to Basurin, Ukrainian forces lost two tanks, one armored personnel carrier, and a military truck with a missile on it.

(UNIAN and Interfax reporting)

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Ukraine reports heavy tank battle with pro-Russians rebels | World | Dunya News
▻http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/World/292759-Ukraine-reports-heavy-tank-battle-with-proRussian

President Petro Poroshenko said about “200 insurgents used tanks to storm” Novolaspa — a village halfway between the separatists de facto capital Donetsk and the Kiev-held port of Mariupol — in a pre-dawn raid that caught government soldiers off guard.

Chief of Staff General Viktor Muzhenko “informed the president that the Ukrainian forces gave a fitting rebuff and repelled all the attacks,” the presidency said.

But the defence ministry later reported the insurgents mounting a second attack on the same village whose outcome was not immediately clear.

“Ignoring the truce agreements, our enemies are continuing to stage provocations that are meant to escalate the conflict,” the defence ministry said in a statement.

The Ukrainian foreign ministry called the clashes “a dangerous indication of a further escalation to come”.

But the rebels denied the push and signalled that they had always had militia units stationed in Novolaspa.

“The armed forces of Ukraine simply put the village under a heavy shelling attack,” a local separatist official told the rebels main news site.

“Novolaspa remains under the control of the People s Republic of Donetsk.”

(AFP reporting)

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énième prémisse de la grande offensive russe <strike>de printemps</strike> d’été <strike>d’automne</strike>

Novolaspa et Starohnativka sont voisines (moins de 10 km)

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Eritrean rebels warn Australian firm exploring gold mines

March 28,2015 (ADDIS ABABA) - An Eritrean rebel group on Saturday warned an Australian mines firm against gold, gas and other natural resource exploration in the Red Sea’s nation.

▻http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article54432
#mines #or #Erythrée #Australie #rebelles #ressources_naturelles
cc @reka

US-backed Hazm Movement, Muhajireen Army working together in Aleppo
▻http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/10/us-backed_hazm_movement_muhaji.php

The U.S.-backed Harakat Hazm, or Hazm Movement, has joined several groups, including Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar, a Chechen-led jihadist group, and the Islamist Jaish Mujahideen (Army of Mujahideen) in fighting the Assad regime in the Handarat District of Aleppo.

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Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar (the Army of the Emigrants and Helpers), also known as the Muhajireen Army, is an #al_Qaeda allied jihadist group...

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Underscoring the complexity of vetting Syrian rebel groups for US assistance, on September 23, the US-backed Hazm Movement released a statement condemning the recent coalition airstrikes in Syria:

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The Hazm Movement is also known to fight alongside the Al Nusrah Front. An LA Times article in early September quotes a Hazm fighter as saying, “Inside Syria we became labeled as secularists and feared Nusrah Front was going to battle us. But Nusrah doesn’t fight us, we actually fight alongside them. We like Nusrah.”

Les “#modérés” des #Etats-Unis en #Syrie

Khaleej Times - 21 August, 2014

A Kuwaiti, Hajjaj bin Fahd Al-Ajmi, considered a financier of Al-Nusra Front, a Syrian rebel group linked to Al-Qaeda, was arrested yesterday on his return from a visit to Qatar, activists said.

They said on Twitter that Ajmi, 26, was arrested at Kuwait airport.

The UN Security Council last Friday placed Ajmi and five other Islamists on an Al-Qaeda sanctions list, imposing a travel ban and assets freeze. They are accused of providing money, fighters and weapons to extremist groups.

In early August, the United States also imposed sanctions on Ajmi and two other Kuwaitis for allegedly raising money for Al-Nusra Front.

Will the ’Emirate of the Levant’ be announced on Eid al-Fitr?
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/will-emirate-levant-be-announced-eid-al-fitr

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Fighters from the Islamist rebel group #Al-Nusra_Front allegedly dig a tunnel under a military site of the Syrian government forces in the northern Syrian city of #Aleppo on July 17, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ahmed Deeb) Fighters from the Islamist rebel group al-Nusra Front allegedly dig a tunnel under a military site of the Syrian government forces in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on July 17, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ahmed Deeb)

Preparations are underway by al-Nusra Front on the ground and in terms of sharia (Islamic law) to announce the Emirate of al-Sham [Greater #syria], which a jihadi source expects would be on the first day of Eid al-Fitr [the holiday at the end of Ramadan]. The Nusra waged new battles in #Idlib's countryside, (...)

#Mideast_&_North_Africa #Abu_Mohammed_al-Joulani #al-Qaeda #Articles #Ayman_Zawahiri #Emirate_of_the_Levant #ISIS #Islamic_Front

Un correspondant de Angry Arab rappelle que le quartier Bustan Diwan de la vieille ville de Homs – que les rebelles viennent de quitter en car – était le quartier de 80.000 chrétiens, chassés (selon des propos rapportés alors par l’agence Fides) par un plan d’« épuration ethnique des Chrétiens » mené en mars 2012 par le rebelles de la brigade al-Farouk : Abuse of the opposition forces, "ethnic cleansing" of Christians in Homs, where Jesuits remains
▻http://www.fides.org/en/news/31228?idnews=31228&lan=eng

While the Syrian opposition forces have been guilty of violence, abuse, torture - as stated in a report released yesterday by the NGO “Human Rights Watch” - in Homs there is “an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians”, carried out by some Islamist members of the “Brigade Faruq”. So says a note sent to Fides by some sources in the Syrian Orthodox Church, which includes 60% of Christians in Syria. Militant armed Islamists - says the note - have managed to expel 90% of Christians in Homs and confiscated their homes by force. According to Orthodox Metropolitan sources, the militants went door to door in the neighborhoods of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan, forcing Christians to flee, without giving them the chance to take their belongings. In the “Faruq Brigade”, note other sources, there seems to be armed elements of various Wahhabi groups and mercenaries from Libya and Iraq.

Après le départ des rebelles, il restait 23 chrétiens :
▻http://www.chretiensdelamediterranee.com/radio-vaticana-la-vieille-ville-de-homs-evacuee-de-ses-re

Tout à fait. Il n’y en a plus dans les vieilles villes. La vieille ville est vide. Il reste quelques civils. Il y a 23 chrétiens qui ont décidé de rester, surtout qu’ils sont dans notre résidence, la résidence du père jésuite ou le père Frans a été assassiné.

Libyan forces attack #Oil #Port #rebels
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/libyan-forces-attack-oil-port-rebels

Libyan troops fought with rebels occupying oil ports on Saturday after fighters attacked an army base where military reinforcements were preparing for an offensive to break the blockade, local residents said. Anti-aircraft gunfire and explosions were heard late at night and again after dawn on Saturday in Ajdabiya, the hometown of rebel leader Ibrahim Jathran, near the main eastern city of Benghazi. The central government in Tripoli gave Jathran a two-week deadline on March 12 to end a blockade of three oil ports or face a military assault. read more

#Libya #Top_News

Libyan pro-government fighters to confront #rebels controlling #oil_ports
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/libyan-pro-government-fighters-confront-rebels-controlling-oil-po

Militia loyal to the Tripoli authorities were advancing on eastern #Libya Wednesday where rebels demanding regional autonomy have begun exporting oil in defiance of the central government, both sides said. Rebel fighters of the Cyrenaica Defense Force pulled back to the eastern region’s historic border after pro-Tripoli militia of the Libya Shield Force pushed them out of the central coastal city of Sirte late Tuesday, a rebel commander told AFP. read more

#Top_News #Zeidan

#Libya orders military to retake rebel-held #oil_ports
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/libya-orders-military-retake-rebel-held-oil-ports

Libya’s parliament has ordered the formation of a military force to end the occupation of oil ports by rebels, a spokesman said on Monday, after a North Korean-flagged tanker had loaded crude at one of the rebel-held ports. “The military operation to fulfill this task will start within one week,” according to a decree by the president of the General National Assembly (GNC) parliament, which was confirmed to Reuters by GNC spokesman Omar Hmeidan. (Reuters)

#Top_News

Imminent deal may end Libyan rebel oil blockade
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/imminent-deal-may-end-libyan-rebel-oil-blockade

A deal to lift an armed blockade of Libyan oil ports and restart exports could be possible within two weeks, after talks with the government advanced on key demands, a senior leader of the protest movement said. Abb-Rabbo al-Barassi, prime minister of the self-declared eastern region government, told Reuters that Tripoli and his federalist movement are closing the gap, and a deal to resolve the standoff at oil ports could be weeks away. read more

#Libya #NATO #rebels #Top_News

Le chef d’une des branches d’Al Qaeda en Syrie serait mort :
▻http://www.aawsat.net/2013/08/article55313503

The commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a major Islamist opposition group fighting the government of Bashar Al-Assad, was killed in the city of Salamiyah near Hama during a failed attack the rebel group launched against government forces on Sunday, Asharq Al-Awsat has learnt.

A member of the Syrian opposition, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on condition of anonymity, said: “Imad Ahmad, a Palestinian national, the commander-in-chief of the ISIS, was killed last Sunday in the eastern suburbs of Hama.”

Note : insister sur le conditionnel. Avec la reprise en main du dossier syrien par Bandar Bin Sultan, je ne doute pas que l’on va nous annoncer, dans les semaines qui viennent, par petites touches successives, la disparition d’Al Qaeda en Syrie.

Analysis - Saudi role in Syria driven by fear of Shi’ite ’full moon’ | Reuters
▻http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/06/18/uk-syria-crisis-saudi-analysis-idUKBRE95H0WQ20130618

Although the Saudi air force is well equipped, it performed poorly in a brief border war with a Yemeni rebel group in 2010, U.S. embassy cables released by WikiLeaks said at the time. [ les milliards de dollars d’achat d’armes ne servent qu’aux commissions ]

And, while Saudi forces engaged Iraq’s army in the 1991 Gulf War, they fought only on Saudi soil. Striking an Arab, Muslim country is problematic for the birthplace of Islam, which aims to be perceived as neutral custodian of Islam’s holy places [ farce- Ils financent des substituts dans les autres pays arabes ].

With limits on what it can do itself, it needs Washington to help fight its battles.

U.S. considers direct aid to Syrian rebels
The Washington Post

▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-considers-direct-aid-to-syrian-rebels/2013/02/26/4af93d3c-8033-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html?wpisrc=al_national

The Obama administration is moving toward a major policy shift on Syria that could provide the rebels with equipment such as body armor, armored vehicles and possible military training and could send humanitarian assistance directly to Syria’s opposition political coalition, according to U.S. and European officials.

The administration has not provided direct aid to either the military or political side of the opposition throughout the two-year old Syrian conflict, and U.S. officials remain opposed to providing weapons to the rebels.