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SyrianObserver.com: Al-Baath Brigades, New Militia of University Student Recruits
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mmar Saati, the head of the Students Union and a close friend of Maher Assad, is behind the idea of creating a number of al-Baath Brigades from university student recruits in Syria, well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. These brigades are under the leadership of the Fifth Corps, a newly-formed Syrian regime militia.

Al-Baath brigades were formed in the city of Homs by university students loyal to the Assad regime, the majority of whom belong to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Saati has served as the head of the Students Union since 2004 and was appointed to the National Leadership in 2013. He married Luna al-Shibl, Bashar al-Assad’s media adviser.

Al-Baath University sources in Homs told Zaman al-Wasl that the Students Union is currently overseeing the formation of the al-Baath Brigade in the central regions of Syria. The brigade’s headquarters will be based in Hama, and it will be in charge of several battalions of Homs University students.

Sources also reported that the name of the leader of the brigade is Bassem Sudan.

The leadership of al-Baath Battalions in Homs has recently announced that it will start admitting university student volunteers into al-Baath Brigade, which will fight under the leadership of the Fifth Corps. The 18-month contract exempts the members of the brigade from mandatory military service. Members will also receive a salary of $200 or more based on their qualifications.

The Students Union specified the end of February as the deadline for submission of applications to the al-Baath Brigade, which is supported and funded by Russia.

A university student told Zaman al-Wasl that Bassem Sudan, the leader of al-Baath Brigade, has promised not to send them to the front lines, that their duties would be confined to areas retaken by the regime, and that they would be protected by Russian air strikes.

A Turning Point in Aleppo
▻http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/66314

The most interesting area is the rebel zone carved out thanks to Turkish military intervention northeast of Aleppo, in battles against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Here, the prospect of military backing from Turkey’s fiercely anti-Assad president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has raised the opposition’s hopes of breaking the siege of Aleppo. But that is unlikely, for three reasons.

First, the purpose of the Turkish intervention was to clear the area from Islamic State jihadis and ensure that the vacuum was not filled by Kurdish forces aligned with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. For all of Erdogan’s loathing of Assad, it doesn’t come close to his hatred of the PKK. Indeed, if Erdogan’s primary concern had been to overthrow the Syrian president, he wouldn’t have diverted thousands of Syrian rebel combatants to help him clean up the border region when they were so desperately needed in Aleppo.

Second, the Turkish intervention was based on an understanding with Russia, which is committed to protecting Assad. How Ankara and Moscow plan to divide the border area is unclear and may be up for renegotiation, and there may well be clashes between Turkish- and Russian-backed forces (perhaps even some friction between Russian and Turkish troops). But we know that neither Russia nor Turkey is interested in a major conflict, having spent so much time improving their relations—and also because Turkey’s NATO membership greatly raises the stakes of any confrontation.

Third, if Erdogan had any intention of breaking the siege of Aleppo, he would have done so long ago. It makes no sense for him to wait until Assad has virtually destroyed the rebel enclave to try saving it now.

After a long and telling silence, the Turkish president recently spoke out on Aleppo, saying his intervention in August had been to “end the rule of the cruel Assad.” Unsurprisingly, this met with immediate Russian pushback, as a Kremlin spokesperson said it would be in touch with Turkey to seek an explanation. The actual explanation? Most likely, Erdogan is simply trying to save face.

If Turkish intentions northeast of Aleppo are not what the opposition had hoped for, Ankara’s involvement in Idlib has so far been more clearly aligned with the rebel cause. The area, which fell completely to Syrian rebels in spring 2015, still receives strong support from across the Turkish border and has served as a staging ground for attacks in Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia.

The Idlib rebellion is strong and well implanted. It is a real threat to Assad. But though it contains many different groups, it is strategically dominated by hardline Islamists such as Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the new incarnation of Jabhat al-Nusra that has links to Al-Qaeda and is riddled with international jihadis. These groups are formidable enemies of the regime, but they are also too toxic to gain Western endorsement. Policymakers in Doha and Ankara have shown a higher threshold of tolerance for jihadism than their colleagues in Washington, but Jabhat Fatah al-Sham is ultimately a step too far for everyone.

In other words, while it will remain a thorn in Assad’s side, the Idlib region is unlikely to serve as the springboard for a foreign-backed strategy to end Assad rule.

#Syrie

La présence de bombardiers russes à Hamadan renforce le rôle de l’Iran au Moyen-Orient
▻http://vilistia.org/archives/11607

Les autorités russes et iraniennes ont confirmé mardi le déploiement de bombardiers russes à long rayon d’action sur la base de Hamadān. Sputnik a contacté deux généraux de brigade à la retraite, Jean-Vincent Brisset et Dominique Trinquand, pour obtenir leurs … Lire la suite →

#IRAN #TURQUIE_RUSSIE_IRAN_OCS

Le « Y » syrien : Damas-Alep, Homs-Lattaquié par Juan Cole.
Un résumé à ma sauce : pour assurer sa viabilité, l’Etat syrien ne doit pas perdre le contrôle de la dorsale : Damas-Homs-Hama-Alep et de la côte. Sans quoi, les jeux sont faits. L’intervention russe a permis, en partie, à l’armée syrienne de reprendre le contrôle de ce Y.
Top 5 Ways Putin has won big in Syria and why Europe is embracing him
▻http://www.juancole.com/2016/01/top-5-ways-putin-has-won-big-in-syria-and-is-being-embraced-by-europe.html

So what has the Russian air force accomplished?
1. It allowed the reopening of the road from Hama to West Aleppo, ending the siege of that regime-held part of the city and pushing back the rebels from it.
2. It retook most of Latakia Province, safeguarding the port. Yesterday came the news that the major northern al-Qaeda-held town of Rabia had fallen to the government forces, meaning that Latakia is nearly 100% in government control. These advances into northern Latakia involved hitting Turkmen proxies of Turkey, which is why Turkey shot down a Russian plane last fall. Likely the next step will be to take back cities in Idlib like Jisr al-Shughour, which fell last spring to an al-Qaeda-led coalition, and which could be used as a launching pad for the taking of Latakia port.
3. It strengthened regime control of Hama and Homs, ensuring the supply routes south to Damascus.
4. It hit the Army of Islam as well as al-Qaeda and Daesh around Damascus, forcing the latter two to withdraw from part of the capital and killing Zahran Alloush, leader of the Army of Islam.
5. It hit al-Qaeda and FSA forces in Deraa Province and yesterday the key town of al-Sheikh Miskin fell to the Syrian Arab Army. This is a Deraa crossroads and its loss affects the rebels ability to maneuver in this province.

UN Women assesses the needs of women migrants and refugees in Serbia and fYR Macedonia

“The advance of ISIS terrified me. I bid farewell to my husband and sold my business in order escape with my daughter. I wanted her to be able to continue her studies in law and live a good life in peace. After years of conflict and unrest in Syria, this has become impossible,” said 48-year-old Sawsan from Hama, Syria.

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Le rapport complet:
Gender Assessment of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in Serbia and fYR Macedonia

In 2015 over one million women and men sought asylum in Western Europe. The vast majority transited from Turkey to Greece and traveled through the Western Balkans to reach destination countries further north. For the countries of the Western Balkans, especially for fYR Macedonia and Serbia this was the first time they were confronted with such a massive refugee flow since the Yugoslav wars. The governments had to quickly scale up their response with the support of UN agencies and international organizations. This publication is a gender analysis of the response in fYR Macedonia and Serbia which looks at the main risks that women and girl refugees face; classifies the services available for women; determines which barriers exist to access services and information for women and recommends how gender issues can be mainstreamed in the national and international response.

Recommendations to Government, UN and NGO counterparts include: to strengthen coordinated action on mainstreaming of gender-responsive programming and advocacy; and increase national capacity to effectively respond to the specific needs, priorities of and protection risks facing refugee and migrant women and girls. The report also calls for more attention to be paid to gender based violence and establishment of referal mechanisms; women only spaces along the transit route; the provision of more information on transit that women can easily access; and the collection and use of sex-disaggreagated data for planning and operations.

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#parcours_migratoire #itinéraire_migratoire

Exploring the ’other Syria’ - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/turkey-syria-other-shatters-stereotypes-residents-defy-image.html

Un regard pas si fréquent sur la Syrie en guerre...

Latakia’s beach offers a good illustration of the newcomers’ profile, refuting the Alawite state scenario. Next to the Ramel al-Janoubi Palestinian refugee camp, the beach resembled a fairground when I took an evening walk through the area. Families had sat down to eat, enjoying themselves. With a Turkish journalist in their midst, refugees from Idlib and Aleppo were eager to slam the Turkish government — and those were the conservative and pious Sunnis. Defying the sectarian narrative, the scene at the beach was like one cheerful brushstroke over a gloomy picture of war.

For Syrians, economic hardship remains a problem as serious as security. Abu Ahmed, a greengrocer in Latakia, said, “The tomatoes and cucumbers are coming from Hama and Homs. A truck from Aleppo used to deliver for 5,000 [Syrian] pounds [$26], now it comes for 100,000 pounds [$530]. The price of diesel [per liter] has increased from 7 [$.04] to 140 pounds [$.74]. Shipping costs have tripled, and sales are down.” At the two marketplaces I toured in Damascus, people voiced a common grievance: Wages have remained the same over the past four years, while food prices have tripled.

The regime’s efforts to alleviate economic stress are noteworthy. The government has continued to pay the salaries of public employees, including those in rebel-controlled areas. Garbage collection and other public services remain in operation. In short, the state continues to function. Even more remarkably, the regime has used its capacity to the fullest to sustain the supply of critical products, such as wheat and flour. Grain produced in the rural areas of Idlib, Raqqa, Aleppo and Hasakah is taken to regime-controlled areas by contracted trucks and shipped to cities via a perilous route, escorted by the military. In other words, the Mukhabarat structure — one of the reasons behind the uprising — is now fortifying the pillars of the regime through crisis management.

Avant Raif Badawi, il y a eu...

Turki al-Hamad journaliste, essayiste, analyste politique

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Ce qu’en dit Wikipedia
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Turki al-Hamad, born in 1953, is best known for his trilogy about the coming-of-age of Hisham al-Abir, a Saudi Arabian teenager, the first installment of which, Adama, was published in 1998. Although banned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait, the Arabic edition of the trilogy — called in Arabic Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) — has sold 20,000 copies.

The novels explore the issues of sexuality, underground political movements, scientific truth, rationalism, and religious freedom against the backdrop of the late 1960s and early 1970s, a volatile period in Saudi Arabia, sandwiched between the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 oil crisis.

Hamad is quoted on the cover of one of his novels:

« Where I live there are three taboos: religion, politics and sex. It is forbidden to speak about these. I wrote this trilogy to get things moving. »

As a result of his work, four fatwas have been issued against him by the country’s religious clerics, and he has been named as an apostate in a statement by al-Qaeda. He continued nevertheless to live in Riyad, calling the fatwas

« more of a nuisance than anything else »

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Il est arrêté en décembre 2012 :

Saudi Arabia arrests another writer over tweets

▻http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201212250316-0022449

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A well-known Saudi writer, Turki Al-Hamad, was arrested on Monday for tweets deemed critical of Islam. Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef reportedly ordered the arrest.

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Mobilisation après l’arrestation d’un écrivain saoudien pour tweets blasphématoires

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Quelque 500 intellectuels, pour la plupart saoudiens, ont adressé une pétition au prince héritier Salman ben Abdel Aziz réclamant la libération d’un écrivain libéral arrêté pour des propos sur Twitter jugés offensants envers l’islam.

« Nous espérons, réclamons et nous attendons une décision rapide pour corriger cette grave erreur commise » à l’égard de Turki Al-Hamad, affirme le texte de la pétition mise en ligne, qui appelle à « la libération immédiate et inconditionnelle » de l’écrivain. Parmi les signataires figurent Manal Al-Charif et Najla Hariri, deux militantess ayant défié l’interdiction de conduire pour les femmes dans le royaume, ainsi que l’éditorialiste Ahmad Adnan. La pétition réclame que « des excuses publiques » soient adressées à Hamad pour son arrestation.

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Turki Al-Hamad a été traduit par Courrier international

▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2012/12/28/turki-al-hamad-arrete-pour-ses-tweets-blasphematoires

« Il sera difficile de combler le fossé qui nous sépare du monde contemporain. Ils [les islamistes ou les docteurs de la foi] nous bernent en parlant de la loi de Dieu [charia], alors que celle-ci n’est que le produit de leurs cerveaux. Notre Prophète [Mahomet] avait rectifié la doctrine d’Abraham. L’heure est venue de de rectifier la doctrine de Mahomet. Ils nous baratinent avec des détails et oublient la grandeur [de l’islam]. Un nouveau nazisme se lève sur le monde arabe. Son nom est islamisme, mais l’époque du nazisme est révolue et le soleil se lèvera à nouveau. Le Prophète a apporté une doctrine humaniste, mais certains l’ont transformée en doctrine de haine de l’homme. Toutes les religions appellent à l’amour. Celui qui a ne serait-ce qu’une graine de haine dans son cœur ne vaut rien, même s’il prie et jeûne. »

Et encore :

« Je ne fais pas confiance à ceux qui disent détenir la vérité absolue. Le monde se préoccupe des capacités nucléaires iraniennes, et nous nous préoccupons de savoir si les femmes doivent avoir le droit de conduire une voiture. »

#arabie_saoudite #apostasie #peine_de_mort #droits_humains #inhumanité #dieu_plutôt_que_les_humains #brutes_épaisses

Arab nationalists take up arms in the battle for Syria | Al Akhbar English
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19649

I was watching TV and my eyes fell upon an American flag fluttering amid crowds in, at the time, the opposition stronghold town of Hama,” Nidal, a 25-year-old Arab nationalist from Lebanon and subsequent fighter for the ANG, told Al-Akhbar.
“Can you imagine the humiliation and the utter disgust I felt when I saw the [American] flag waving in the breeze in Syria?”

As Nidal flicked the end of his cigarette into the ashtray, he recited Gamal Abdel Nasser’s, Egypt’s first president and pan-Arab leader, famous words: “If America is satisfied with me, know that I’m on the wrong path.”

With Syria’s red, white and black flag pinned to the upper left part of his shirt, Nasser, Nidal’s old friend and fellow ANG fighter, chimed in.

“In 2013 the US bluntly voiced its intention to attack Syria,” Nasser said. “At that moment it became clear that we, as Arab youth who tread the path of the revolutionary Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), cannot and will not remain neutral in what we believe to be the battle of the survival or partition of not only Syria, but the Arab nation.”

Syria Comment » Archives Interview with Sayyid Hashim Muhammad Ali: Commander of the National Ideological Resistance in Syria - Syria Comment
▻http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/interview-sayyid-hashim-muhammad-ali-commander-national-ideological-re

A: On our relations with the brother Ali Kayali, sadly we are not connected by any relation because we work on internal fronts in Aleppo, Hama, Damascus, Deraa and Quneitra, but not in Latakia. So we don’t meet with them but in any case we respect all the honourable ones in this crisis and we are completely ready to cooperate with them within the ethical framework and direction of the Ahl al-Bayt [Muhammad’s family revered by Shi’a in particular] (peace be upon them).

#syria: Jihadist factions close to civil war
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syria-jihadist-factions-close-civil-war

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Rebel fighters make their way through a yard in the village of Morek, in the countryside of the Syrian city of Hama, on March 7, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ali Nasser) Rebel fighters make their way through a yard in the village of Morek, in the countryside of the Syrian city of Hama, on March 7, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ali Nasser)

Tensions continue to escalate between jihadist factions in Syria. Spokesman of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Mohammed al-Adnani released a threatening audio message yesterday, titled “We invoke Allah to curse the liars.” Meanwhile, #Al-Nusra_Front sources told Al-Akhbar that they will retaliate on the “battlefields of jihad.”

Suhaib Anjarini (...)

#Mideast_&_North_Africa #Aleppo #Articles #ISIS #Saudi_Arabia #united_states

Syrian army prepares for an attack from its southern border
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrian-army-prepares-attack-its-southern-border

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A tank confiscated by rebel fighters fires at a pro-government position near the Syrian city of Hama, on February 19, 2014. (Photo: AFP- Abu Hadi al-Hamwi) A tank confiscated by rebel fighters fires at a pro-government position near the Syrian city of Hama, on February 19, 2014. (Photo: AFP- Abu Hadi al-Hamwi)

As news about preparations by opposition fighters for a major offensive from the south of #Damascus on the Syrian capital emerge, Al-Akhbar learned that the Syrian army is getting ready to confront any surprise attack after “monitoring, for some time, movements along the Jordanian border.” read (...)

#Mideast_&_North_Africa #Al-Nusra_Front #Aleppo #Articles #Daraa #Free_Syrian_Army #Homs #ISIS #syria #UNICEF

Massive #car_bomb kills 16 in central #syria
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/massive-car-bomb-kills-16-central-syria

A massive car bombed killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more in Syria’s central #Hama province on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported. The report said women and children were among those who died in an attack near a school in the town of #al-Kafat, about 19 kilometers southeast of Hama. The area is controlled by government forces. Syrian opposition sources cited by Reuters also reported the attack, putting the death toll at 18. read more

#Top_News

Greek border police illegally deporting Syrian refugees

Syrian refugees detained by Greek police last month say they were beaten and denied food and water during a 12-hour detention period.

“Mohammad”, a medical professional from the Syrian city of Hama, said he and five others sought the help of smugglers to get from Istanbul to Sweden via Greece last month. However, within hours of reaching Greece, they found themselves being beaten by border police, forced on to a boat and covertly returned to Turkish territory under cover of darkness.

“What we suffered there, it was like shaking hands with the devil,” he said from an apartment in central Istanbul.

“Some countries say they are ‘friends of Syria’. They are liars.”

Attempts by migrants to reach EU countries have resulted in hundreds of deaths in recent weeks.

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#Grèce #migration #asile #réfugié #Syrie #police #gardes_frontière #déportation #renvoi #refoulement #push-back

Suicide bomber kills 37 civilians in #syria's #Hama : State news
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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on October 20, 2013 shows Syrians on the site of a suicide bombing hit the government-held city of Hama in central Syria. (Photo: AFP / SANA)

Updated at 6:00 pm: A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 tons of explosives killed at least 37 civilians and wounded dozens in the Syrian city of Hama on Sunday, state media reported. The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road (...)

#car_bombs #Top_News

Bahrain on Video : Police Interrogation of Youth Making False Confession Goes Viral - IBTimes UK
▻http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/478263/20130613/bahrain-video-police-youth-ali-marhoon-torture.htm

Bahrain on Video: Police Interrogation of Youth Making False Confession Goes Viral

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The footage, uploaded by Bahrain’s security officer Abdulrahman Al Mannai, depicts the interrogation on a young man called Hussain Jamil Jaffar Ali Marhoon, from Hamad Town.

Repris par la presse

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Hamadi Jebali : quitter Ennahdha, cela dépend de nous deux - Leaders
▻http://www.leaders.com.tn/article/hamadi-jebali-quitter-ennahdha-cela-depend-de-nous-deux?id=10911

« Quitter Ennahdha, la décision en revient à Hamadi Jebali et à Ennhadha », a fini par lâcher le chef du gouvernement démissionnaire et secrétaire général du parti au pouvoir. Maintes fois relancé par Wassim Ben Larbi qui l’interviewait vendredi matin sur Express FM, Jebali a déclaré : « je passe par une période de réflexion et de meilleure compréhension de la situation sans que cela me dispense d’un rôle utile au service de mon pays ».
Il souligne cependant qu’il aujourd’hui une idée fixe, la réussite de la formation du nouveau gouvernement conduit par son successeur Ali Larayedh.

Hamad bin Khalifa à Haniyeh: rompez votre alliance avec l’Iran et..
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Ces sources ont rapporté que lorsque l’émir du Qatar s’est réuni avec Haniyeh, il lui a dit : « Si vous souhaitez obtenir de l’aide économique et financière, vous devez rompre votre alliance avec l’Iran, l’ennemi de l’Islam et des musulmans » !

Toujours selon ces sources, les conditions fixées par Hamad bin Khalifa au premier ministre palestinien ont été :

1 – rompre l’alliance avec l’Iran.
2 - entamer des négociations avec l’entité sioniste sans conditions préalables.
3 - la reconnaissance d’"Israël".
4 - la reconnaissance de Jérusalem comme capitale d’"Israël" et abandonner la récupération de sa partie orientale.
5 – Annoncer la fin de la résistance armée et entamer des négociations comme seule option de solution.

Les sources indiquent qu’ " Ismaïl Haniyeh a répondu à Hamad bin Khalifa : " vous me demandez de remettre Gaza aux Israéliens alors que " je suis membre du comité exécutif du mouvement Hamas et le Premier Ministre de la Palestine ! Il est impossible d’accepter ces conditions ", ajoutant que "cette réponse à pousser l’Emir du Qatar à écourter la durée de sa visite à Gaza à quelques heures au lieu de deux jours , voire de réduire le montant de l’aide promise à 350 millions de dollars seulement alors qu’il était prévu 600 millions de dollars" !

sur le même sujet:

Gaza: The Only Cure for the Occupation is Resistance | Al Akhbar English
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/gaza-only-cure-occupation-resistance

“No resistance, no negotiations.”

That was the Emir of Qatar’s catchphrase during his recent visit to the Gaza Strip. He used it to urge the Palestinians to reconcile. It was as though he was telling them: Your resistance camp isn’t resisting, and your peace camp isn’t negotiating, so why don’t you make up?

SyriaUprising
At least 165 martyrs have fallen today including many women and kids. The advance of the FSA in Aleppo has pushed Assad to move thousands of troops and tanks from Idlib and Hama to Aleppo where they are now preparing for a counterattack while aircraft continue to attack parts of the city and its countryside. Damascus also had a bloody day, when helicopters and tanks shelled densely populated areas in the south and west of the city – Yarmouk camp, Hajar Aswad and Daraya. There was a massacre of 22 defected soldiers near the Jordanian border, and we leave it to your imagination how bad the situation is in Idlib, Homs, Deir Ezzor, Hama… See the map for more info.

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Explosion and Shelling of the City of Hama
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@AmalHanano
The children of #AlHaffeh join the children of #Houla and #Qubair and #Daraa and #Homs and #Hama and ... : ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2BqUI8vwo

Syria: West rebuffs proposal to work with Iran to solve crisis

With violence escalating in the wake of this week’s massacre of 78 Sunni villagers near the city of Hama, Kofi Annan, the international envoy to Syria met Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, to try to salvage his disintegrating ceasefire plan.

At least 20 people were killed on Friday as rebels stepped up a week-long offensive to avenge the killings in Qubair, the fourth incident of mass bloodletting directed at members of Syria’s Sunni majority in a fortnight.

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At least 41 people, including 23 civilians, were killed across Syria on Thursday, a watchdog said, a day after at least 55 were slaughtered in a new massacre near the central city of Hama.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 15 regular army troops and three rebels were among the 41 people killed across the country.

To read more: ►http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=406751

MAP of FREE #Syria TERRITORY JUNE 2012:

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#FSA NOW CONTROL most of North #Syria: “Amid a torrent of news coverage focused on massacres and sanctions, a major change in the #Syria political landscape has gone largely unremarked: All across northern and central Syria, in an area known as the #AlGhab Plain, a growing number of villages and towns effectively are outside Government control.

In an area that stretches from the mountains around Jisr al Shughour in the north to the town of Salhab in the south, and east to the highway that links the cities of #Hama and #Idlib, rebels administer justice and provide local services, including the distribution of cooking gas and food.”

Read more here: ►http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/06/3647353/in-northern-syria-rebels-now-control.html#storylink=cpy

Yassir Basheer Ruqaya murdered by Assad in Hama,Syria June 05,2012.mp4
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another body burned & destroyed in a home that was burned & destroyed by assad thugs in Kafr Zeita, Hama, #SYRIA.
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