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Zitat: War Ankara in den Giftgas-Angriff verwickelt?
Über 1000 Tote forderte der Giftgas-Einsatz in Syrien im August 2013. Schuld war das Assad-Regime – glaubte man bis jetzt. Nun schreibt US-Enthüllungsreporter Seymour Hersh eine ganz andere Version.
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Nun präsentiert der amerikanische Enthüllungsreporter Seymour Hersh in einem Beitrag in der «London Review of Books» einen anderen Schuldigen für das Massaker: Nicht Assad habe das Gas eingesetzt, sondern syrische Rebellen der radikalislamistischen Al-Nusra-Front. Und erhalten hätten sie den chemischen Kampfstoff vom türkischen Geheimdienst. Hersh berichtet unter Berufung auf Insider in Washington, schon im Herbst 2013 seien US-Dienste zur Überzeugung gelangt, die Regierung Erdogan sei in den Giftgaseinsatz verwickelt gewesen.
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Nicht nur erklärte Erdogan umgehend, das veröffentlichte Gespräch seiner Vertrauten sei verfälscht worden. Der Premier liess überdies Youtube verbieten. US-Geheimdienste scheinen hingegen von der Echtheit der Äusserungen überzeugt: Sie widerspiegelten das Bemühen Erdogans, das Blatt im syrischen Bürgerkrieg zu wenden und einen sich abzeichnenden Sieg des Assad-Regimes zu verhindern. «Wir wissen jetzt, dass es sich um eine verdeckte Aktion handelte, durch die Obama in einen Krieg getrieben werden sollte», sagte ein US-Geheimdienstler über den Giftgaseinsatz nahe Damaskus zu Hersh. In Washington wolle jedoch niemand darüber reden.

Zitat:Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:24
Israeli Hospitals Treat More Militants Injured in Syria

TEHRAN (FNA)- Six more injured militants fighting in Syria, two seriously, were admitted to Israeli hospitals to receive treatment, media reports said.

The Syrian state news agency quoted the Israeli website Walla as saying that four of the injured anti-Syria fighters have been admitted to Poriya Hospital in Tiberias while the two others were evacuated to Nahariya hospital in the Western Galilee, noting that, until now, Tiberias hospital, treated 67 wounded rebels while Nahariya hospital treated 250 others.
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Zitat:04.25.14
The Big Weapons that the U.S. May Be Secretly Supplying to the Syrian Rebels
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In early April, YouTube videos showed American made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank rocket systems in the hands of Harakat Hazm, a group of moderate Syrian rebels. It’s not confirmed who provided the weapons but they could have come directly from the United States, which has been vague about the exact nature of its support for the rebels. Another possibility is that they reached Syria indirectly and were provided by a country like Saudi Arabia that supports anti-Assad forces in Syria and has its own stock of the weapons that it purchased from the U.S. in the past.
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Wednesday, NPR reported that the CIA plans to send more arms and training to Syrian rebels and that 50 TOW missile systems had been sent to Harakat Hazam as a part of a “test” or pilot program. Yet, when asked specifically about the deal, National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan kept her response vague.

“As we have consistently said, we are not going to detail every single type of our assistance,” Meehan said.
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Zitat:Waffenstillstand für syrische Stadt Homs vereinbart

Rebellen verlieren ihre einstige Hochburg

Die syrische Führung hat mit Rebellen in der Stadt Homs einen Waffenstillstand vereinbart. Das berichten übereinstimmend regierungstreue Medien und Menschenrechtsbeobachter. Die syrische Regierung hatte die Aufständischen zuletzt in der Altstadt eingeschlossen. Sie sollen jetzt ins Umland abziehen.

Wenn der Rückzug erfolgt, wäre das vier Wochen vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen ein entscheidender Sieg für Staatschef Baschar al Assad. Die Rebellen hätten damit eine ihrer Hochburgen verloren.
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Stand: 02.05.2014 18:02 Uhr

Zitat: Krieg in Syrien

Armee rückt auf strategisch wichtige Stadt Mleiha vor

04.05.2014 · In Syrien steht Assad offenbar vor der Rückeroberung der östlich von Damaskus liegenden Stadt Mleiha. Ihm spielen auch die Kämpfe seiner Gegner untereinander in die Hände. Für Al Qaida-Führer Sawahiri sind sie ein „Desaster“.
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Zitat:"A large number of terrorist Takfiri fighters in Syria, who bear Saudi and Chechnian nationalities and receive financial and military backup from the Saudi intelligence agency, have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on several planes to help the Ukrainian army in its fight against the pro-Russian population," an Arab security official told FNA on Sunday on the condition of anonymity due to the secrecy of the issue.

Luetzow schrieb:http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930214000824

Zitat:"A large number of terrorist Takfiri fighters in Syria, who bear Saudi and Chechnian nationalities and receive financial and military backup from the Saudi intelligence agency, have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on several planes to help the Ukrainian army in its fight against the pro-Russian population," an Arab security official told FNA on Sunday on the condition of anonymity due to the secrecy of the issue.

Gut für Assad...aber für die Ukraine dürfte das die Hölle werden.

Zitat:Kerry empfängt syrische Aufständische

USA verweigern Syriens Rebellen Waffen

Syriens Aufständische verlieren im Bürgerkrieg an Boden. Gerade die gemäßigten Kräfte hoffen deshalb auf schlagkräftige Waffen aus den USA. Doch US-Außenminister Kerry machte erneut deutlich: Sie hoffen vergeblich.
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Waffen außer Kontrolle

Nach wie vor fürchten die USA, Waffen könnten in die falschen Hände, in die von radikalen Islamisten geraten. Deshalb die Zurückhaltung, die Assad die militärische Oberhand garantiert.
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Stand: 09.05.2014 03:18 Uhr

Zitat:Sat May 10, 2014 12:58
Syrian Army Discovers Mass Graves in Old Homs City

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army has found mass graves of people killed in the old city of Homs after foreign-backed militants withdrew from there, media reports said.

The Syrian army found pile-ups of unidentified corpses in mass graves and a network of tunnels used by the terrorists in the old city of Homs to travel to different parts of the city, the Arabic-language Al-Ahd news website reported.

Meantime, the last group of militants, who declined to surrender to the Syrian army in the Old City of Homs, arrived in Al-Dar Al-Kabir according to an agreement signed between the UN and the Syrian government's reconciliation committee.
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Mitleser schrieb:Wie plausibel ist eigentlich die These, dass das dauernde Kochen des Konflikts bei relevanten Teilen des beteiligten Auslands gar nicht so unerwünscht ist ?

Zitat:Syria forces break siege of Aleppo central prison
Thu May 22, 2014 6:33AM GMT

Syrian Special Forces have broken a long siege on the Aleppo Central Prison by foreign-backed militants, gaining access to the army garrison and resupplying it with food and munitions in a first move.

The Syrian military forces then deployed troops within 200 meters of the prison compound before storming its immediate surroundings, state news agency SANA reported.

Army units had earlier gained control over the town of Hilan and other areas in the vicinity of the prison before launching the main operation to eradicate the militant groups that had besieged the military compound for over 18 months.

At least fifty militants were killed in the attack. There are nearly 4,000 inmates in the sprawling prison.
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Zitat:Anti-Syria camp taken aback by high voter turnout among Syrian expats

May 30, 2014

Damascus, (SANA) A flood of Syrian nationals in Lebanon, extending as far as the eye can see, streamed to their embassy in Beirut last Wednesday to cast their ballots in a magnificent, jaw-dropping scene that proved extremely perplexing to the camp hostile to Syria.
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Zitat:Syrian students hold pro-Assad rally in Idlib
Fri May 30, 2014 4:6PM GMT
Syrians continue to hold support rallies on an almost daily basis on the eve of the country's first multi-candidate presidential election.

In the western city of Idlib, students took to the streets and voiced their support for incumbent President Bashar al-Assad on Friday.

The demonstrators rejected any foreign intervention in their country's internal affairs and stressed that only Syrians have the right to decide their future.
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Zitat:Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander killed in Syria

Abdollah Eskandari’s death runs counter to Tehran’s insistence its forces aren’t fighting alongside Assad

A commander from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria, media said Saturday, a disclosure that runs counter to Tehran’s insistence it is not fighting alongside Bashar Assad’s forces. [...] However, the Fars news agency reported that a funeral service would be held for the commander Sunday in the city of Shiraz. Eskandari was formerly a commander of the Guards’ ground forces and also headed a state-run charity in southern Iran that helps war veterans and families of fallen soldiers.

Neither the circumstances of his killing nor details about his role in the Syrian civil war — where Iran has staunchly backed the Assad regime — have been officially confirmed.