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La « non-intervention américaine en Syrie » : (au moins) 10.000 à 20.000 mercenaires payés par les États-Unis depuis (au moins) 4 ans pour le « Front du Sud » : Southern Syria faces more uncertainty as US pulls funding for anti-Assad militias
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/Southern%20Syria%20faces%20more%20uncertainty%20as%20US%20pulls%20fun

In the coming weeks, between 10,000 and 20,000 men in southern Syria will get their last month’s pay from the US government.

The men are part of the Southern Front, a loose collaboration of dozens of anti-Assad, Western-vetted militias operating in Daraa and Quneitra provinces. For close to four years, they have been paid, armed and directed by the Military Operations Command, or MOC – a US-led support mechanism and weapons bridge operating out of Amman.

But before the month is out, that support and oversight will end as the US government, under a directive from President Donald Trump, ceases support for Syria’s anti-Assad rebels.

PRC Spokesman: Future Operations Against the Enemy will be ‘Thorn in Israel’s Throat’
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23326

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Abu Mujahid, spokesman for the #Popular_Resistance_Committees, was a guest of the Islamic Resistance in #Lebanon. During his visit, Israel assassinated Hezbollah resistance fighters in the province of #Quneitra in Syria. #Abu_Mujahid attended their funerals. The Lebanese resistance and Palestinian resistance are part of one body, he says. Before his return to Gaza, Al-Akhbar conducted this interview with him.

#al-Aqsa_Brigades #al-Nasser_Salah_al-Deen_Brigades #Articles #Golan_Heights #Hamas #Islamic_Jihad #Mohammed_Dahlan #Palestine_Gaza #Palestine

#Tehran Threatens to Open the Golan Front in Response to Israeli Strike
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23295

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"The response will be firm and decisive.” This, in short, was the Iranian reaction to the Israeli attack in the Syrian province of #Quneitra, which killed a senior commander in the #Iranian_Revolutionary_Guard (IRG), among others. The Iranian reaction indicates the possibility of opening the Golan front, where work is underway to build the necessary infrastructure. Preparations began after Syrian President #Bashar_al-Assad’s announcement that the response to Israeli attacks on #syria would come from the #Golan_Heights.

#Articles #Hussein_Sheikh_al-Islam #Iran #Israel #Mohammed_Ali_Allah-Dadi #Mideast_&_North_Africa

Syrian army downs an Israeli spy drone near #Golan_Heights
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrian-army-downs-israeli-spy-drone-near-golan-heights

The Syrian army shot down an Israeli reconnaissance drone on Sunday over Quneitra province near the occupied Golan Heights, a military source told Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). According to the source, the Skylark 1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was flying above the village of al-Hadar when it was downed. #Israel seized 1,200 square kilometers (460 square miles) of the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War of 1967, then annexed it in 1981 in a move never recognized by the international community. read more

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Syrian insurgents attack government-held town near Israel | Reuters
▻http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/20/uk-mideast-crisis-south-idUKKCN0J422U20141120

La #coopération #al-Qaïda/#Israël/Jordanie/#Etats-Unis se poursuit à Quneitra dans le sud syrien (via ▻http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/11/how-the-us-and-israel-support-al-qaeda-in-south-syria.html)

(Reuters) - Fighters from Al Qaeda’s #Nusra Front and other insurgents attacked and briefly entered Baath City in southern Syria on Thursday, the army’s last major bastion in a province flanking the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The battle is part of a campaign launched by the insurgents this week to take control of the entire Quneitra province. Only Baath City and neighbouring Khan Arnaba town remain under President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

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Hundreds of Nusra fighters who fled from the eastern Deir al-Zor province after being driven out by Islamic State earlier this year have regrouped in southern Syria, boosting the rebel presence there, activists say.

“It gave the fighters in the area the upper hand,” said Abu Yahya al-Anari, a fighter from Ahrar al-Sham.

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Insurgent gains since earlier this year have been mainly achieved by Nusra Front together with other Islamist brigades and rebels fighting under the umbrella of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army. Unlike rebel in-fighting further north, they have coordinated well so far.

Most of heavy weaponry and fighters in Quneitra province are drawn from hardline Islamist brigades such as Ahrar al-Sham and al Muthana alongside Nusra, activists and analysts say.