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In Syria when you see someone say "huge convoy" and "massive reinforcements" they're talking about no more than 200-300 persons at most
 
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Groups inside the Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces are involved in internal conflict, Turkish sources have admitted, amid reports that Turkish-backed rebels fought with each other in the Syrian town of al-Bab, leaving several dead and scores injured.

Hell on Earth: the Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS” is now the third full-length documentary I have seen on Syria and the one I now regard as the best introduction to the conflict. Unlike “Return to Homs”, “City of Ghosts” and “Last Men in Aleppo” that were directed by Syrian partisans of the revolution, “Hell on Earth” is co-directed by Sebastian Junger, an American, and Nick Quested, a Briton, whose emphasis is primarily on the humanitarian disaster but within the context of a powerful attack on the Baathist dictatorship. [...]
 
The film provides extensive evidence of the mass character of the protest movement in Syria that began in March 2011, with a close look at the victimization of 15 teenage boys who were arrested after painting graffiti on the walls of Daraa, a city widely viewed as the birthplace of the revolution: “As-Shaab / Yoreed / Eskaat el nizam!”, which means “The people / want / to topple the regime!” One of the youths walks through the streets of Daraa showing where they had used spray paint to demand Assad’s fall. He, like the others, had been tortured in jail for a month and then released to his parents who were part of the Sunni tribal network that was the sinew of Daraa. Their suffering, including having their fingernails torn out, incensed their parents and most of the city’s residents who began to protest in the streets raising the central demands of the movement: for justice, for dignity and for freedom. As could have been expected, Assad’s snipers began firing on the demonstrations, footage of which is included in the film.
 
This pattern was repeated across Syria–in Homs, in Aleppo, in Hama and in the suburbs of Damascus. Continued armed attacks on peaceful protests finally reached the breaking point when soldiers began to defect and form militias to defend the people both in the streets and in their homes. We hear from a number of the men who helped to form the FSA in 2011, an armed movement that had no political agenda except to “topple the regime” as the 15 boys from Daraa had hoped.
 
Within two years, the regime had adopted genocidal-like tactics including barrel bombing and other forms of aerial attacks against which the rebels had no defense. Syria was rapidly becoming a hell on earth, as Yassin-Kassab put it at one point in the film, hence its apt title.

Washington can learn a bit from Iran’s playbook. If the United States plans its strategy right, it doesn’t have to beat Iran and its proxies—all it has to do to shift momentum is make it expensive for Iran (by destroying some of its troops or proxies) and for once make a credible show of using air power to defend American allies on the ground. It can also, with minimal resources, prevent Iran and Assad from reclaiming Syria’s south and southeast in a cakewalk.
 
The Trump administration’s military moves in Syria could signal the beginning a concerted effort against Iran. But given the its anti-Muslim record, impulsiveness, and general chaos, it’s just as likely that renewed U.S. attention to the Middle East will mean military intervention without a sound strategy—and will spawn a new generation of problems rather than the solving existing ones.

“They have arrived now in Tanf and they are a significant boost to the US military presence there,” one senior intelligence source said, without elaborating, but adding that the HIMARS had already been deployed in northern Syria with US-backed forces battling Daesh.

Sorti avant le lever du soleil pour éviter les bombardements des avions russes et syriens, le directeur de l’hôpital est sur la route lorsqu’on le prévient sur son talkie-walkie d’un bombardement imminent par avion vers l’hôpital. Le médecin et son chauffeur arrêtent la voiture et sortent se cacher entre les arbres. L’avion, qu’ils voient distinctement, largue deux missiles sur le quartier nord de Khan Cheikhoun. « Nous les avons vus, témoigne-t-il, mais on pensait que c’étaient des missiles comme les autres. On pensait qu’ils ne contenaient pas d’arme chimique. Jusqu’à présent, seuls les hélicoptères en tiraient. »

Lui et son chauffeur reprennent la route quand ils sont alertés de la présence de produits toxiques dans les missiles largués sur l’hôpital et sur la zone. « Il était précisément 6 h 40. Les gens se sont précipités hors de chez eux. On a décompté à l’hôpital 400 blessés et 106 morts. J’ai la liste avec leurs noms que j’ai moi-même recensés. Mais ces 106 personnes ne correspondent qu’aux gens arrivés à l’hôpital. En fait, beaucoup d’autres sont morts chez eux dans leur sommeil. Au total, des morts, il a dû y en avoir plus de 200 », estime le médecin. Ce chiffre représente plus du double du dernier bilan établi par Human Rights Watch, le 1er mai, qui faisait état de 92 morts.

Ces médecins, soutenus sur le terrain par la Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), ont été invités à témoigner, mardi 13 juin à Paris. Ils ont décrit les attaques qu’ils subissent de la part du régime syrien, qui cible les personnels et infrastructures de santé. Mais surtout, leur témoignage corrobore les accusations d’utilisation répétée d’armes chimiques, malgré l’accord conclu en septembre 2013 avec l’Organisation pour l’interdiction des armes chimiques (OIAC) par lequel Damas s’engageait à remettre toutes ses armes chimiques et bactériologiques.

(Reuters) A group of Syrian doctors based in rebel-held provinces said on Tuesday that aid had dropped markedly over the last two months because donors were losing interest, a factor that will make it harder for them to handle government assaults.
 Tens of thousands of displaced Syrians have found refuge in the northern province of Idlib, which borders Turkey. It is a stronghold of opposition forces, including Islamist-led rebel groups.
 
“The situation in Idlib is very bad because many organizations have stopped their support,” said Dr Farida, the last obstetrician-gynecologist to be evacuated from rebel-held eastern Aleppo to Idlib earlier this year. The doctors did not use their full names to protect their families from retaliation.
 
“Many hospitals are closing because their supporters from outside are bored now because it’s the seventh year of the revolution. Many of them don’t want to come in anymore,” she said. She estimated some 3 million people now lived in the area.
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John Dautzenberg, an advocacy manager for SAMS, said it was clear the new U.S. administration’s current rethinking on how to distribute aid was affecting other governments and making it more complicated for non-governmental organizations to get funding.
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