Truce between revolutionary Kurdistan and Syrian regime disintegrates
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[quote]DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY/BEIRUT, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Syrian Kurds battled on Saturday with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, Kurdish sources and a monitoring group said, breaking a longstanding tacit agreement between the two sides to focus on other enemies in a complex civil war.
In Syria's predominantly Kurdish northeast, Assad's forces and Kurdish militia, mainly the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), have for the most part coexisted without clashing, focusing their firepower on the Islamic State insurgent group.
However, violence broke out when army soldiers and allied militiamen took control of buildings in an area that both sides had agreed would stay demilitarized, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
"There has been some serious fighting today. The PYD (the political wing of the YPG) arrested 10 soldiers and Baath party gunmen," Observatory head Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters.
"There is now fighting in many areas of Hassakeh."
The YPG and the government had divided Hassakeh into zones in a power sharing agreement, the Observatory said.
The army shelled three Kurdish-majority areas on the edges of Hassakeh city, and fighters from YPG clashed with Syrian forces inside the city throughout the day, the YPG said on its website.[/quote]
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[I]"and the war machine keeps turning"[/I]
seriously how many sides are there now? does someone have a pie-chart of it
[QUOTE=Sableye;46956865][I]"and the war machine keeps turning"[/I]
seriously how many sides are there now? does someone have a pie-chart of it[/QUOTE]
i dont think we can really even call it sides, there's large groups with many smaller factions in them that vary in their own agenda. it's pretty much anarchy completely.
[QUOTE=Sableye;46956865][I]"and the war machine keeps turning"[/I]
seriously how many sides are there now? does someone have a pie-chart of it[/QUOTE]
Roughly forty to one hundred militia/self defense groups for both the Pro-Assad and Against-Assad. Then you include the radical Islam parties which want to go medieval on the region, foreign legionaries working for the Russians, Pro-Kurdistan/Pro-Christian groups, and tons of Neo-Nazi groups rolling around attempting to start a reich in the middle east.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46957142]and tons of Neo-Nazi groups rolling around attempting to start a reich in the middle east.[/QUOTE]
For those who don't believe him:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Flag_of_the_Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party.svg/600px-Flag_of_the_Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party.svg.png[/t]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party]They're tiny but exist[/url]
It's fucking terrifying to think that neo-Nazi groups have some sort of power in an already unstable situation.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46957177]For those who don't believe him:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Flag_of_the_Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party.svg/600px-Flag_of_the_Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party.svg.png[/t]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party]They're tiny but exist[/url][/QUOTE]
Very subtle.
[quote]With over 100,000 members,[5] it is the second largest legal political group in Syria after the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party[/quote]
And not that small, apparently. *Sigh*
They also hold two seats out of thirty five in the Syrian Cabinet.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46958710]Very subtle.
And not that small, apparently. *Sigh*[/QUOTE]
Oh good, so our options at this point are bombed out islamist shit hole, bombed out Assad backed shit, general shit hole or Neo Nazi shit hole in the style of Hussein's Iraq.
Fun times.
[QUOTE=Rapscallion92;46958818]Oh good, so our options at this point are bombed out islamist shit hole, bombed out Assad backed shit, general shit hole or Neo Nazi shit hole in the style of Hussein's Iraq.
Fun times.[/QUOTE]
They also want to create the "Greater Syria"
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/SadheeSYRIA.jpg[/t]
Well theres Assad, Nazis, Communists, ISIS, other Islamist groups, Russian mercenaries, Nationalists, and a multitude of others.
It's a very bad mix and I don't like any of them.
they are all right and
they are all wrong, what a mess
a troubled region
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46958854]They also want to create the "Greater Syria"
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/SadheeSYRIA.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
GroB Syrialand
Lebanon anschluss when?
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46958854]They also want to create the "Greater Syria"
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/SadheeSYRIA.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the "Greater Israel" border
[IMG]http://www.iamthewitness.com/img/Greater%20Israel.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46957177]For those who don't believe him:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Flag_of_the_Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party.svg/600px-Flag_of_the_Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party.svg.png[/t]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party]They're tiny but exist[/url][/QUOTE]
At least it's religious view is regarded as secular.
[QUOTE=Deng;46958881]Well theres Assad, Nazis, Communists, ISIS, other Islamist groups, Russian mercenaries, Nationalists, and a multitude of others.
It's a very bad mix and I don't like any of them.[/QUOTE]
Well there probably was a liberal, green and monster raving loony party too but they were no doubt the first to be killed off.
I still struggle understanding how there's anyone left alive in Syria.
Everyday in the news you hear about how another hundred or so people have been shot, or gassed, or bombed.
Been watching the kurds since the Siege of Kobani began and I'll say that the Kurds deserve what they claim. 35 million people in a region that's vast enough to be a country but can't be.
I thought the title read "Truce between revolutionary kardashian and Syrian regime disintegrates"
Then I read the article
This whole bloody thing has turned into a shit fest jesus christ
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