Daily newsletter-no439 e 6-4-2014

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Food aid enters Ghota

U.S. military aid to FSA

Komalah Kurdish forces join opposition

Syrian National University “the Interim government’s new project”

Battles continue in Lattakia

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Military operation to stop Mortar attacks

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The Syrian warplanes launched barrel-bomb at-tacks on al-Qantara in Lat-takia northern countryside coincided with artillery shelling targeted some re-gions surrounding al-Niser Mountain and the borderline with Turkey, the Syrian Ob-servatory said.Meanwhile fierce clashes erupted be-tween the Syrian army in co-operation with the National Defense forces (the Syrian resistance to liberate Isken-derun) in one hand and (al-Nusra fighters in cooperation with Ahrar al-Sham, Sham

Battles continue in Lattakia

Military operation to stop Mortar attacks

al-Islam, Junoud al-Sham, Ansar al-Sham and other Islamic fighting battalions) on the other in al-Nabaaien region and at the surround-

ing of the Observatory /45/. A rocket, fired by the Syrian army, has struck on Nabaa al-Mur leaving some inju-ries, the Observatory added.

The Syrian army launched few days ago a military op-eration targeting al-Mleha in the eastern Ghota and Jobar neighborhood being main threat to the Capital Damascus by firing mortar shells at Damascus sub-urbs. Meanwhile the Syr-ian Observatory for Hu-

man Rights stated that two mortar shells struck Opera House at the Surroundings of Chief of Staff headquar-ter at Umayyad Square, leaving two civilians dead. Another mortar shell fell near the Russian Embassy in al-Mazraa, no casual-ties reported. Al-Ghassani

mortat attack as well left three injured. On the oth-er hand, the Syrian army attempts to block smug-gling roads of the opposi-tion between al-Zabadani Valley and Lebanese east-ern mountains where elite units of the Syrian army are deployed.


Interim government takes over granaries in

Daraa

Syrian National University “the Interim gov-ernment’s new project”

Al-Safi… “resignation of Coalition members to be accepted”

Ahmad Tohme, PM of the interim government warned against “supporting extremist groups in Syria,” stressing that “terrorist organizations crimi-nalized by the Saudi govern-ment had shed the blood of Syrians”. Tohme pointed out that “the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and al-Nusra Front” distorted the course of the revolution and used the mis-guided as fuel for their radical ideas. He appealed to every-one not to sympathize with these organizations, which caused disastrous results against the innocent, accord-ing to the Saudi newspaper “Al-Riyadh”. In another con-text, Tohme participated in “the consultative meeting for the people of Horan in the Turkish city of Istanbul”, and listened to the needs of the people of Daraa and promised more attention and support. Meanwhile, Daraa militants announced in the meeting that granaries that have been re-cently liberated are under the management of the Syrian in-

terim government.

Abdul Rahman al-Hajj, adviser to interim govern-ment PM, revealed a gov-ernment’s project to es-tablish a Syrian national university. “We developed the government’s plan of education, and explained the projects that we are car-rying out, this includes var-ious stages of education” al-Hajj said.“We’ll present a special study of the Syri-an National University and a plan to set up three theo-retical colleges in politi-cal science, management, languages and parallel sci-entific colleges (Dentistry,

architecture, and civil engi-neering). Five institutes of technology have also been prepared with the Society of Syrian- Americans En-gineers, an association of academics and experts at a high level to train cadres recognized to be distribut-ed on job market, he added.

Louay Safi, spokesman for the National Coalition, said that the regime is not ready to engage in any political process, and has no agenda so far to complete the Ge-neva negotiations.In regard to the election of Coalition`s

political body, al-Safi said that “two proposals for the mechanism of expanding the body and gives it ex-ecutive powers will be dis-cussed and voted on as usu-al. There are items that will also be proposed to increase the powers of the commit-tees and political body, and the regulations governing the relationship of the coali-tion with the interim gov-ernment”. He also pointed out that the request made by resigned SNC member to be readmitted had been ac-cepted, and that resignation of any member will be ac-cepted at their will.


Food aid enters Ghota

Clashes on regime’s checkpoints in Hama

Komalah Kurdish forces join opposition

The Red Crescent managed to enter 1600 food baskets in the first phase and one thousand basket of relief in the second phase of a plan to bring aid to the besieged in East Ghota, where the united relief office received

Scores of Syrian army sol-diers have been killed and injured while attempting to break into Mork city in the northern countryside of Hama amid violent clashes at the city’s outskirts, Hama Media Center stated. FSA has also broke into al-Ameyya check-

food baskets and distribut-ed them to major centers in the towns, in preparation to distribute them to civilians under the supervision of Crescent Red, waiting for the intensification of efforts to introduce more aid.

point in al-Saa`n, and al-Jalma checkpoint in the eastern and northern countryside respec-tively, the center added. Other clashes took place at Shezer and Qaramta checkpoints, while opposition fighters tar-geted by homemade rockets Khattab military barrack.

Komalah “Kurdish opposi-tion Forces” joined “Syr-ia’s rebels Front”, as Capt. Biwar Mustafa, command-er of the Kurdish military

organization, emphasized that this step came out to unify the military efforts along with all revolution-ary factions fighting the

regime, stressing that the victory of the revolution requires the unification of the forces of the Syrian op-position.


Coalition calls for protection of civilians against indiscriminate bombing

U.S. military aid to FSA

Opposition Coalition de-manded to protect civilians against regime indiscrimi-nate shelling on Aleppo, stigmatizing such action as a war crime prohibited by the terms of Annex I of Geneva Convention. The Coalition said that It the file of the Syr-ian regime must forwarded to the International Criminal Court in order to prosecute war criminals. The coalition statement also asked the Se-curity Council to take active and direct steps to stop the systematic violence and in-discriminate shelling of ci-vilians in Syria.

Media sources quoted U.S .security sources that The United States is finalizing a plan to increase training FSA fighters, and to provide them small arms shipments,

as it would increase aid and will send these shipments to the moderate fighting groups, which resides mostly in Jor-dan, in addition to the Syrian southern border. The aid like-

ly wouldn’t include surface to air missiles, because America fears the possibility of the ar-rival of advanced weapons to extremist Islamic groups who would use it to attack Israel.

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