#Syrie : Poutine et Erdogan évitent un assaut sur #Idleb avec une « zone démilitarisée » - La Croix
▻https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Syrie-Poutine-Erdogan-evitent-assaut-Idleb-zone-demilitarisee-2018-09-17-1
Vladimir Poutine et son homologue turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan ont surmonté lundi leurs divisions et se sont mis d’accord pour éviter l’assaut voulu par le régime syrien sur Idleb, en créant une « zone démilitarisée » sous contrôle russo-turc dans le dernier bastion rebelle de Syrie.
Paul Khalifé sur Twitter : « Le contrôle total par les jihadistes d’ #Idleb annule de facto l’accord de #Sotchi conclu entre la #Russie et la #Turquie. Une offensive de l’armée syrienne est de nouveau d’actualité. #syrianarmy #Syrie » / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/Khalifehpaul/status/1083447310963621890
Video streaming giant appeared to suspend the accounts of SANA, the...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7696412
Video streaming giant appeared to suspend the accounts of SANA, the Ministry of Defence, and the Syrian Presidency. YouTube shuts down pro-Syrian government channels #SyriasWar #Socialmedia #Media #MiddleEast
Today, millions of children living in war zones have no access to education.
–In #Yemen, 2 million children are out of school.
–In #Syria, 1.75 million children can’t go to school.
–In #Iraq, 3.2 million children don’t attend regular classes – or attend school at all. ▻https://twitter.com/ICRC/status/1033764114013806593
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for #Syria ▻https://consortiumnew...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7176487
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for #Syria ▻https://consortiumnews.com/2018/05/17/an-iranian-viewpoint-on-the-battle-for-syria “The true “state sponsor of terrorism” is not Iran; it is the West and their allies.”
Israel in major raids on ’Iran’ targets in Syria after rocket fire | AFP.com
▻https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/israel-major-raids-iran-targets-syria-after-rocket-fire-doc-14q3b14
Elle est pas belle la vie ? Ça fait une bonne semaine que l’armée israélienne est en alerte maximale dans le Golan occupé. C’est donc le moment idéal pour lui envoyer une bordée de roquettes dont aucune n’a atteint le territoire israélien…
Israël est forcément obligé de riposter.
Israel carried out widespread deadly raids against what it said were Iranian targets in Syria on Thursday after rocket fire towards its forces which it blamed on Iran, marking a sharp escalation between the two enemies.
The incident came after weeks of rising tensions and followed US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from a key 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, a move Israel had long advocated.
It led to immediate calls for restraint from Russia, France and Germany. “The escalation of the last hours shows us that it’s really about war and peace,” warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The raids that a monitor said killed 23 fighters were one of the largest Israeli military operations in recent years and the biggest such assault on Iranian targets, the military said.
“We hit nearly all the Iranian infrastructure in Syria,” Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman told a security conference.
“I hope we’ve finished this episode and everyone understood.”
Israel carried out the raids after it said 20 rockets, either Fajr or Grad type, were fired from Syria at its forces in the occupied Golan Heights at around midnight.
It blamed the rocket fire on Iran’s Al-Quds force, adding that Israel’s anti-missile system intercepted four while the rest did not land in its territory.
No Israelis were wounded.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/world/middleeast/israel-iran-syria-military.html
Though Israel has hit Iranian forces in Syria with a number of deadly airstrikes, Tehran has been restrained in hitting back, until now. The rocket attack against Israel appeared to be in response to Israeli strikes on southern Syria on Wednesday.
The barrage came after an apparent Israeli missile strike against a village in the Syrian Golan Heights late Wednesday.
▻https://twitter.com/WaelAlRussi/status/994613884198834177
1 #Israel Targeted SAA in south #Syria 2 #SAA responded by targeting the Israeli army positions in Jolan Heights 3 Israel tried to target Syrian positions with Stand-off missiles 4 SAA intercepted 70% of the missiles and re-targeted Israel
1 #Israel Targeted SAA in south #Syria 2 #SAA responded by targeting the Israeli army positions in Jolan Heights 3 Israel tried to target Syrian positions with Stand-off missiles 4 SAA intercepted 70% of the missiles and re-targeted Israel
Autre version des faits de cette nuit.
Le Monde toujours aussi « décodant » ! C’est certainement le Golan le problème ! ▻http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/05/10/pourquoi-le-plateau-du-golan-est-il-au-c-ur-du-conflit-entre-israel-et-la-sy
A voir si l’info sera confirmée par d’autres sources :
▻https://www.hispantv.com/noticias/siria/376678/israel-altos-golan-base-inteligencia-ataque
Siria ataca unidad de espionaje más confidencial de Israel en Golán
Liens : *▻https://www.syrianarchive.org/en/collections/chemical-weapons*
*▻https://syrianarchive.org/en*
Activist group publishes database of Syria chemical attacks | Nation/World | starherald.com
▻http://www.starherald.com/news/nation_world/activist-group-publishes-database-of-syria-chemical-attacks/article_d913d0e3-d784-5f52-8280-0f4e032d01e6.html
An activist group on Tuesday published a database of information on suspected chemical attacks in Syria , adding to a growing collection of videos and images documenting alleged war crimes during the seven-year conflict.
The Syrian Archive, which works with human rights groups such as Amnesty International, said it has verified 861 videos covering some 212 attacks — most of them believed to have been carried out by government forces.
The material comes from 193 sources and much of it was uploaded to social media by ordinary Syrians, the group’s co-founder, Hadi al-Khatib, told an audience in Berlin.
Al-Khatib, who has lived in Germany since 2014, said the group wants to preserve sensitive material from disappearing , so that it might eventually be used to bring those responsible for war crimes to trial. But the team, which is spread across Europe and the Middle East, also wants to “add value” to the raw material, such as by determining the location where a video was taken and, most importantly, verifying that it shows what is claimed.
The Syrian Archive cooperates with the open source journalism site Bellingcat that has made a name for itself forensically examining footage from war zones.
While most of the chemical attacks documented by the group are alleged to have been carried out by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, including most recently in the town of Douma near Damascus, a handful have been attributed to rebel forces and the Islamic State extremist group, said Abdulrahman al-Jaloud, one of the Syrian Archive’s researchers.
Al-Khatib said he and fellow activists try not to get disheartened by the fact that efforts to bring those responsible for war crimes in Syria to trial have so far been unsuccessful.
“That doesn’t mean we should stop,” he said. “We are looking forward to the day when we can use this material, because the reconstruction of Syria must include acknowledging, investigating and prosecuting crimes.”
#SteveBell on #DonaldTrump's #Syria #tweets – #cartoon | Opinion | ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7008547
#SteveBell on #DonaldTrump's #Syria #tweets – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2018/apr/12/steve-bell-on-trumps-tweets-on-syria-cartoon
Elijah J. Magnier on Twitter: “[...] some information about the forthcoming war in #Syria.”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/984140788719325184
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OPCW Will Deploy Fact-Finding Mission to Douma, Syria (►https://www....
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6997497
OPCW Will Deploy Fact-Finding Mission to Douma, Syria
#Syria #OPCW #war #Chemical #Weapons #Douma #politics #international
OPCW Will Deploy Fact-Finding Mission to #Douma, Syria
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
▻https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw-will-deploy-fact-finding-mission-to-douma-syria
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 10 April 2018 — Since the first reports of alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syrian Arab Republic, were issued, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been gathering information from all available sources and analysing it. At the same time, OPCW’s Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, has considered the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team to Douma to establish facts surrounding these allegations.
Today, the OPCW Technical Secretariat has requested the Syrian Arab Republic to make the necessary arrangements for such a deployment. This has coincided with a request from the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation to investigate the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma. The team is preparing to deploy to Syria shortly.
Background
Set up in 2014, the on-going mandate of the OPCW Fact Finding Mission (FFM) is “to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic”. The OPCW cannot and will not release information about an on-going investigation. This policy exists to preserve the integrity of the investigatory process and its results as well as to ensure the safety and security of OPCW experts and personnel involved. All parties are asked to respect the confidentiality parameters required for a rigorous and unimpeded investigation.
As the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention, the OPCW oversees the global endeavour to permanently and verifiably eliminate chemical weapons. Since the Convention’s entry into force in 1997 – and with its 192 States Parties – it is the most successful disarmament treaty eliminating an entire class of weapons of mass destruction.
Over ninety-six per cent of all chemical weapon stockpiles declared by possessor States have been destroyed under OPCW verification. For its extensive efforts in eliminating chemical weapons, the OPCW received the 2013 Nobel Prize for Peace.
On avait un tag #2039-2045 mais c’est pas exactement dans le même esprit je dirais...
Europe air traffic control issues alert over ‘possible air strikes ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6997197
Europe air traffic control issues alert over ‘possible air strikes on Syria within 72 hours’
#air #alert #control #europe #hours #issues #over #possible #strikes #syria #traffic #within posted by pod_feeder
Who hacked the US election?
▻https://hackernoon.com/who-hacked-the-us-election-5902ea02fc68?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
Who hacked the US election?Who has benefited most from US government policy since the election?Not Russia.Cambridge Analytica in association with British and Israeli intelligence operatives, associated with MI5, MI6 and, Mossad have been exposed as actively hacking democracies and psychologically abusing citizens around the world.When we say hacked in this context, we do not necessarily mean hacking a computer, rather we are looking at the end user experience, so we are talking about hacking public consciousness.Watch the Cambridge Analytica video expose then let’s start to examine the threads that this reveals.▻https://medium.com/media/181c3861d993a75dff4234a97a9fb69d/hrefGiven this insider admission at the highest levels that the governments of the US and Britain both worked closely with a (...)
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Is there something wrong with this? International Crisis Group OFFICIALLY calling for safe passage for Al-Qa`idah “Fighters”?
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2018/02/is-there-something-wrong-with-this.html
Crisis Group (@CrisisGroup)
2/25/18, 4:59 AM
We welcome the #Syria #UNSC resolution. Implementation must include:
– aid for besieged civilians
– voluntary safe departure of HTS fighters from #Ghouta
– return to August 2017 de-escalation agreement
– #Russia-brokered negotiations for a non-violent resolution in Ghouta
C’est peut-être le moment de faire une recherche sur SeenThis avec ICG...
“The classroom of Star Academy for women in north-east Syria appears quaint at first glance, its corners adorned with plastic flowers and traditional sequinned dresses. But along the walls are photographs of female guerrillas and a portrait of the leftist revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg.”
▻https://www.ft.com/content/1d309a50-f084-11e7-b220-857e26d1aca4
Interesting article on education to women’s rights in Syria areas controlled by the Kurds.
Rami Abbas (#Syria) : «Al Nakba» Desastre «no es un día al año!, en realidad lo vivimos diario.»
Joshua Landis on Twitter: “Is this the model for a future deal b/n Kurds/Arabs & Syrian Gov in North #Syria? In Hassake Province - Syrian gov/PYD/ArabTribes share oil revenues already. SAG gets 65% of revenues in Rmeilan field. PYD gets 20%. Arab forces get 15%.”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/931064789127884800
▻https://rfsmediaoffice.com/en/amp/2017/07/28/assad-regime-pyd-share-oil-revenues-hasakah
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited (Political Geography, Sept. 2017)
►http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629816301822
We find that there is no clear and reliable evidence that anthropogenic #climate change was a factor in northeast Syria’s 2006/07–2008/09 drought; we find that, while the 2006/07–2008/09 drought in northeast Syria will have contributed to migration, this migration was not on the scale claimed in the existing literature, and was, in all probability, more caused by economic liberalisation than drought; and we find that there is no clear and reliable evidence that drought-related migration was a contributory factor in civil war onset. In our assessment, there is thus no good evidence to conclude that global climate change-related drought in #Syria was a contributory causal factor in the country’s civil war.
A comment on “climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited”
▻http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629817301531
To the extent the dominant narrative got the Syrian case “wrong”, it will ultimately make it harder for scholars and scientists to communicate the very real economic and security implications of climate change more broadly.
Echoes: Space and Time
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/echoes/echoes-space-and-time-5
0. Digable Planets – (A new Refutation of) Space and Time (US)
///Intro///
1. Uman – Bienvenue en Belgique (Bruxelles)
2. Flippter – Shafata – Collectif Shoof (Soudan)
3. Positive Black Soul – New York Paris Dakar (Sénégal)
4. The Blue Herb – Chie No Wa ( Dj Krush remix) (Japon)
>Tapis: Les Malfrats Linguistiques - L’eau qui dort (Liège)
/// Bloc 1///
5. L7a9ed Lhaqed (l’enragé)- Walou
6. De Puta Madre – Industrie (Schaerbeek)
7. Rza feat Petter – Det e så jag känner (Suède)
8. Fuat, Bektas and Germ – Uzthan Gelen Ses (Allemagne, origine Turquie)
> Tapis: Lion and Tigers – Brown Boogie Nation (Sri Lanka)
///Bloc 2///
> Extrait: Radio Syria
9.Omar Offendum - #Syria (Syrien, émigré US)
10. Asian Dub Foundation – Real Great Britain (UK, origine Inde)
11. La Mala Rodriguez - Tengo un trato (...)
They belong together: Syria, Nicaragua & the United States of America
U.S. Bombed a Mosque in Syria, Killing Dozens of Civilians, Investigators Conclude
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/04/19/u-s-bombed-mosque-syria-killing-dozens-civilians-investigators-conclud
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOyihqEOfYA
As my colleague Alex Emmons reported last month, Syrian activists and first responders accused the United States of killing dozens of civilians in an airstrike that mistakenly targeted a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jinah on the evening of March 16.
After +24 hrs, @SyriaCivilDef teams finished work in AlJenah town hit by airstrikes yesterday, documenting 50 victims & 10s wounded. #syria pic.twitter.com/mXX1eXzNep
— Majd khalaf (@majdkhalaf1993) March 17, 2017
Confronted with these claims, a Pentagon spokesman, Navy Captain Jeff Davis, told The Intercept that they were mistaken. “The area was extensively surveilled prior to the strike in order to minimize civilian casualties,” Davis said. “We deliberately did not target the mosque.”
As evidence, Davis provided an aerial photograph of the building destroyed in the attack, identified by U.S. officials as a “partially constructed community meeting hall.”
L’observatoire des #armements informe sur Twitter :
Obsarm @obsarm
Obsarm a retweeté Tom Antonov
« Des véhicules français de transport militaire (Nexter) vendus à l’Arabie saoudite ont été retrouvés en Syrie »
Mustafa Abdi @mustefaebdi
▻https://twitter.com/mustefaebdi/status/852099787759419393
Freelance Journalist From Kobanî in Rojava - ٍKurdistan ▻https://www.facebook.com/mistafaabdi
▻https://www.youtube.com/user/shababkobani
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3 Aravis vehicles (MRAP made by Nexter) seen in #Syria in #Rojava
Tom Antonov @Tom_Antonov
▻https://twitter.com/Tom_Antonov/status/852203873150406656
Defense market analyst, Reservist in French Army, Snails, frog, oyster and stinky cheese eater #Defense #France #Europe #US #NZ looking for new opportunities ?
Not Just for the Sake of Syrians, but for Our Sake
Precisely the Arabs in Israel, who are fighting discrimination and oppression, must not stutter when it comes to the injustices perpetrated across the border
Odeh Bisharat Apr 10, 2017 12:16 AM
read more: ▻http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.782651
What can the Arabs in Israel do for their Syrian brethren? They have no army, no diplomatic clout, no logistical capabilities that could allow them to offer civilian support. The only thing that remains is moral support – words. “You have neither horses nor treasure to give … so let the words rejoice if circumstances be grim,” said the poet Al-Mutanabbi. But the Arab leadership in Israel has failed in the realm of words as well.
The truth is that even if the Arabs in Israel manage to give verbal support to Syria’s citizens, that will not change the balance of power at all between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, or between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s murderers and the fanatics backed by Qatar. In the situation we’re in, the battle over what position should be taken toward Syria is a battle over the moral image of Arab society in Israel, over its attitude toward the terrible massacre going on across the border.
>> Israeli Arab party fails to condemn Assad’s gas attack in Syria, slams U.S. strikes <<
And if in the hard days of the chemical-weapons assault on Khan Sheikhoun almost none of the leaders of Arab society in Israel saw fit to condemn the Syrian regime, that’s cause for concern. Even those who did condemn it, by the way, did so weakly, to the point where it could not be said whether the statements were condemnation or commentary.
Condemnation of Assad produces furious responses from his supporters, as if he were Mother Theresa, censured out of nowhere. But Assad was part of a bloody regime even before the appearance of ISIS and the Nusra Front. On June 26, 1980, when Hafez Assad waited on the steps of the presidential palace to welcome an African guest, two bombs were thrown at him, miraculously missing their target. Revenge was quick to follow. The next day, June 27, at dawn, a group of some 60 soldiers, led by Muin Nassif, deputy of Rifaat Assad, the president’s brother, boarded helicopters and flew to the Tadmor Prison in the heart of the desert. There, the soldiers broke up into smaller groups and opened fire on the prisoners locked in their cells. Five hundred prisoners were murdered in cold blood. That story appears in Patrick Seale’s biography of the senior Assad.
The Syrian war shakeout is changing the Mideast’s balance of power - Middle East News
Turkey’s intervention has created a rift with Iran, Jordan-Syria ties are tightening and America’s absence could weaken the Saudis. The alliances emerging in Syria will determine the fate the region.
Zvi Bar’el Feb 27, 2017 1
read more: ▻http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-1.773974
Secondary relationships born of the Syrian civil war could have a greater impact on the future of the country and the region than the war itself. While the warring parties are busy holding onto and expanding territorial gains, finding funds and arms and jockeying for position in future negotiations, the smaller players are crafting long-range strategies that will divide the region à la the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement.
The secondary relationships are alliances and rivalries that developed between global powers such as Russia and the United States, and between local powers such as Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. But the term is inaccurate in a sense because the Syrian war has long become a proxy war in which the payer of the bills dictates the military movements while changing proxies based on battlefield success.
More importantly, the alliances between the sponsors and “their” militias create the balance of political forces between the powers. For example, Russia uses the Kurds in Syria as a bargaining chip against Turkey, whose cooperation with the Free Syrian Army creates a rift between Ankara and Tehran. Meanwhile, Jordan’s strikes on the Islamic State in southern Syria boost the Russian-Jordanian coalition and Jordan’s ties with the Assad regime − and everyone is looking ahead to "the day after.”
The latest development puts Turkish-Iranian relations to the test. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference a week ago Sunday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Iran to stop threatening the region’s stability and security. The remark wasn’t only unusually blunt but also seemed to come from an American talking-points page. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi responded the next day, warning that while Turkey was an important neighbor, “there is a certain cap to our patience.”
Tehran and Ankara are deeply divided over the Assad regime, and particularly over whether the Syrian president should stay on after a negotiated settlement. But these disagreements didn’t affect the two countries’ bilateral trade of some $10 billion a year.
Iran was the first country to denounce the failed coup attempt in Turkey last July, and President Hassan Rohani is on track for a fourth visit to Ankara in April. Tehran and Ankara share an interest in preventing the establishment of an independent Kurdish region in Syria that could inspire the Kurds in Iran and Turkey.
But Ankara and Tehran are each deeply suspicious of the other’s strategic ambitions. Turkey believes that Iran seeks to turn Iraq and Syria into Shi’ite states, while Iran is sure that Turkish President Recet Tayyip Erdogan dreams of reestablishing the Ottoman Empire.
The Iranians were apprehensive about the liberation, by Turkish forces and the Free Syrian Army, of al-Bab, a city around 30 kilometers from Aleppo, even though the defeated party was the Islamic State. The Iranians were worried because control over al-Bab, whose liberation the Free Syrian Army announced Friday, opens up the route critical to retaking Raqqa, the Islamic State’s capital in Syria. Control over al-Bab is also key for taking control of the Iraq-Syria border, which Tehran views as critical.