Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 24th, 2013
In this interview with Al-Arabiya, Syrian opposition leader Michel Kilo accuses the Muslim Brotherhood and Mustafa Sabbagh’s Qatari-backed faction in the Syrian opposition of catapulting Ghassan Hitto to the Prime Ministership of the interim government in a non-consensual manner: “Qatar wanted Hitto…and the Qatari-backed group in the National Coalition agreed on Hitto and imposed Hitto [...]
Posted by Matthew Barber on Thursday, March 14th, 2013
al-Nusra Syrians Protest Demanding Exit of al-Nusra Activists take to streets of rebel-held Mayadeen in eastern Syria for third straight day to demand that Al-Nusra Front fighters leave town. Protests erupted after the Islamist Al-Nusra Front… set up a religious council in the east of Deir Ezzor province, where Mayadeen is situated, to [...]
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Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 4th, 2013
On Monday, government forces, backed by pro-regime militiamen, launched a major offensive on opposition held areas in the central city of Homs. Evidently, regime forces are also attacking north of Latakia, in an effort to push back rebels to the north as well. As the government losses territory around Aleppo and to the East around [...]
Posted by Joshua on Saturday, February 16th, 2013
Ten anti-Tank rockets have been acquired by the Syrian Supreme Military Council, led by Brigadier Selim Idris. Each costs between $20 to 25 thousand. This is a photo of one taken today. Addendum: Pirouz writes: This is a M79 Osa (Wasp) 90 mm portable anti-tank rocket launcher, a Yugoslavian/Serbian modernized variant of the French-made LRAC [...]
Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
I begin with letters from three Syria Comment readers: Reader 1 Dr. Landis, I have resisted writing to you for a long time. Proud to say that I was born in Aleppo. First thing I do every morning when I wake up is check on the situation of my family in Aleppo. And for the [...]
Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
UN: Data analysis suggests over 60,000 people killed in Syria Syria’s chaos isn’t America’s fault By Aaron David Miller, Published: January 1 Aaron David Miller is vice president for current initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has advised Democratic and Republican secretaries of state on the Middle East. His books include [...]
Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 28th, 2012
A friend on Alawites: I remain skeptical regarding the Alawite community’s plan B. in my view there is no plan A, no plan B and no plan C. to make things worse there is no Alawite community. the original community’s communal structures, its forms of leadership, its elites, its identity, its religion and its rapport [...]
Posted by Aron Lund on Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
by Aron Lund for Syria Comment A group of jihadi foreign fighters in Syria has published photographs of militants posing with a Soviet-designed 9K38 Igla SAM system, a man-portable anti-aircraft weapon similar to the American Stinger missile. The recently established group, known as Kataeb al-Muhajerin, or ”the Migrants’ Brigades”, appears to have been created by [...]
Posted by Joshua on Friday, October 26th, 2012
Aron Lund from Sweden writes: (See his excellent Syrian Jihadism) Dear Joshua, I saw your latest post on Aleppo. Big things going on, but the situation in Kurdish Ashrafiye may have been misreported. The PYD/PKK is insistent that it remains in control of Ashrafiye, with no FSA or government presence at all. They blame the [...]
Posted by Joshua on Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Reports from friends inside suggest that Aleppo is falling to rebel troops. Both major Christian areas – al-Syriaan al-Jadide and al-Syriaan al-Qadime have fallen. The regime’s largest Mukhabarat station is in the second area. FSA sharpshooters have gone to the tops of all buildings in these areas with no government opposition. The major Kurdish neighborhood [...]
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