Pejuang Free Syrian Army pusat pemeriksaan manusia
untuk menghalang ahli-ahli Negara Islam al-Qaeda - gabungan Iraq dan Levant
(ISIL) daripada memasuki kejiranan Masaken Hanano di Aleppo 7 januari 2014. (Free
Syrian Army fighters man checkpoints to prevent members of the al
Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from entering
Masaken Hanano neighborhood in Aleppo January 7, 2014. (Reuters/Jalal Alhalabi –
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500 orang, termasuk 85 orang awam, terbunuh semasa dalam per-tempuran antara
kumpulan pemberontak dan cawangan Al-Qaeda di Syria pada minggu lepas, sebuah
kumpulan aktivis dilaporkan.
Balai
Cerap Syria berasaskan Britain bagi Hak Asasi Manusia menyatakan bahawa
sekurang-kurangnya 482 orang telah mati sejak pertempuran antara sederhana dan
puak pemberontak arus perdana berbanding Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL)
dipergiatkan pada 3 Januari.
Kumpulan
ini menambah bahawa 157 individu adalah dari ISIL, 240 yang lain tidak daripada
puak lebih sederhana dan 85 orang awam.
Pada
mulanya, Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) telah berjuang di sebelah yang
sederhana untuk menggulingkan Presiden Syria Bashar Assad dalam konflik yang
bermula pada Mac 2011.
Pertempuran
di antara pemberontak telah tersebar di utara Syria sejak minggu lalu.
Keganasan terbaru berlaku pada hari Jumaat di wilayah Aleppo, selepas ISIL
membunuh seorang doktor tempatan.
Nusra
Front, yang juga berkongsi ideologi radikal tetapi kebanyakannya terdiri
daripada pejuang tempatan , bersatu dengan beberapa kumpulan-kumpulan serpihan
lain untuk melancarkan serangan balas terhadap ISIL di seluruh negara.
Terdapat
telah kebencian sebelumnya ke arah kumpulan - dianggotai kebanyakannya dengan
pejuang bukan orang Syria - untuk rejim keras ia telah dikenakan ke atas
kawasan kawalan di negara ini sejak memasuki perang tahun lepas.
ISIL
juga terlibat dalam konflik di Anbar Province Iraq, yang merancang untuk
bersatu dengan Syria yang untuk membentuk khilafah. Kumpulan tentera yang
dikenali sebagai sayap jihad yang paling radikal pemberontak Syria. Negara
Islam Iraq dan akar Levant kita kembali ke tahun-tahun awal Perang Iraq. Ia
telah ditubuhkan pada bulan April 2004 oleh pelampau Sunni, dan kemudian
berjanji setia kepada Osama bin Laden.
Pada
masa itu, ISIL dipanggil Al-Qaeda di Iraq. 2 tahun kemudian kumpulan itu
dijena-makan semula sebagai Negara Islam Iraq. Pada tahun 2013, ia telah
mendapat kehadiran yang kuat di utara Syria, menambah ‘Levant’ namanya.
Pada
hari Jumaat Majlis Keselamatan PBB mengkritik serangan pengganas terkini di
Iraq dan diterima pakai Penyataan pertama tahun baru, menyatakan sokongan kepada
kerajaan Iraq dalam menentang keganasan.
“Majlis
Keselamatan kesal kerasnya peristiwa baru-baru ini di bandar-bandar Ramadi dan
Fallujah di wilayah Anbar di Iraq. Majlis Keselamatan mengutuk serangan yang
sedang dilakukan oleh Al-Qaeda affiliate, Negara Islam di Iraq dan Levant,”
kenyataan itu.
“Majlis
Keselamatan menggesa rakyat Iraq , termasuk puak-puak Iraq, pemimpin tempatan
dan pasukan keselamatan Iraq di wilayah Anbar, berterusan, berkembang dan
mengukuhkan kerjasama mereka terhadap keganasan dan keganasan.”
Pelampau Syria merekrut
Barat
Kembali
di Syria, konflik telah berkembang dan ‘Preoccupying’ minda pemimpin-pemimpin DUNIA.
Pengarah
FBI mendedahkan bahawa mengesan yang Amerika yang telah pulang dari Syria telah
menjadi antara tertinggi keutamaan memerangi keganasan biro ini. Menurut
pegawai kanan memerangi keganasan, kumpulan pelampau Islam di Syria yang
mem-punyai kaitan dengan Al-Qaeda cuba untuk mengenal pasti, merekrut dan
melatih rakyat Amerika dan Barat yang lain yang telah mengembara di sana, dan
ingin mempunyai mereka melancarkan serangan apabila mereka telah pulang ke
rumah.
Pegawai Amerika
Syarikat mengatakan bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 70 rakyat Amerika sama ada
mengembara ke Syria atau cuba sejak perang saudara sejak 3 tahun lalu. Jumlah bilangan yang tidak pernah didedahkan sehingga Khamis.
Perang
saudara Syria telah menjadi sebuah magnet untuk orang Barat yang mahu berjuang
dengan pemberontak terhadap kerajaan Presiden Bashar Assad.
Dalam
pada itu, Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama membuat keputusan sama ada
untuk menyambung semula bantuan ketenteraan tidak membawa maut kepada
pembangkang sederhana Syria. Amerika Syarikat menghentikan penghantaran bulan
lalu selepas gudang dipenuhi dengan peralatan telah dirampas oleh Barisan Islam,
satu gabungan pejuang pemberontak itu berakhir dari Tentera yang disokong Free
Syrian Army.
Pakar memberi amaran
mengenai meneruskan bantuan yang tidak membawa maut. “Amerika Syarikat
menyediakan bantuan maut melalui Jordan, CIA dan melalui Turki untuk
pembangkang. Tetapi pembangkang berpecah-belah, tidak berupaya dan elemen-elemen
yang lebih radikal, terutamanya, pejuang asing telah diambil alih pembangkang
dari segi pertempuran. Dan tidak dapat dielakkan apa yang akan berlaku jika
anda mula lulus senjata kepada pembangkang, mereka akan jatuh ke tangan
pelampau,” penganalisis keselamatan dan bekas pegawai Pentagon Michael Maloof
memberitahu RT.
Nearly 500 killed in fighting between Syrian
rebels and Al-Qaeda . . .
Almost
500 people, including 85 civilians, were killed during in-fighting between
rebel groups and an Al-Qaeda branch in Syria in the past week, an activist
group reported.
The
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that at least 482
people were dead since the fighting between moderates and mainstream rebel factions
versus Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) intensified on January 3.
The
group added that 157 individuals were from the ISIL, 240 others were from more
moderate factions and 85 were civilians.
Initially
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were fighting on the side of
the moderates to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad in a conflict that began in
March of 2011.
The
fighting between the rebels had spread across northern Syria over the past
week. The most recent violence broke out on Friday in the province of Aleppo,
after the ISIL killed a local doctor.
Nusra
Front, which also shares a radical ideology but is composed mostly of local
fighters, united with several other splinter groups to carry out reprisal
attacks against ISIL throughout the country.
There
had been previous resentment towards the group – staffed predominantly with
non-Syrian fighters – for the harsh regime it has imposed on controlled areas
in the country since entering the war last year.
ISIL is
also engaged in conflict in Iraq's Anbar Province, which it plans to unite with
Syria to form a caliphate. The military group is known as the most radical
jihadist wing of the Syrian rebels. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s
roots go back to the early years of the Iraq War. It was established in April
2004 by Sunni extremists, and then pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
At that
time, ISIL was called Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Two years later the group was rebranded
as the Islamic State of Iraq. In 2013, it gained a strong presence in northern
Syria, adding ‘Levant’ to its name.
On
Friday the UN Security Council criticized the latest terrorist attacks in Iraq
and adopted its first statement of the new year, expressing support for the
Iraqi government in its fight against terrorism.
“The
Security Council deplores in the strongest terms the recent events in the
cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province in Iraq. The Security Council
condemns the attacks that are being perpetrated by Al-Qaeda affiliate, the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant,” the statement read.
“The
Security Council urges the people of Iraq, including Iraqi tribes, local
leaders, and Iraqi security forces in Anbar province, to continue, expand and
strengthen their cooperation against violence and terror.”
Syrian extremists recruit westerners
Back in
Syria, the conflict has been growing and preoccupying world leaders’ minds.
The
FBI’s director revealed that tracking Americans who have returned from Syria
has become among the bureau’s highest counter-terrorism priorities. According
to senior counter-terrorism officials, Islamic extremist groups in Syria with
ties to Al-Qaeda are trying to identify, recruit and train Americans and other
westerners who have travelled there, and looking to have them carry out attacks
once they have returned home.
US
officials say that at least 70 Americans have either travelled to Syria or
tried to since the civil war started three years ago. That number was never
disclosed until Thursday.
Syria’s
civil war has become a magnet for westerners seeking to fight with rebels
against the government of President Bashar Assad.
In the
meantime, US President Barack Obama is deciding whether or not to resume
non-lethal military aid to Syria’s moderate opposition. The US halted shipments
last month after warehouses filled with equipment were seized by the Islamic
Front, a coalition of rebel fighters that broke off from the US-backed Free
Syrian Army.
Experts
warn about resuming the non-lethal aid. “US provided lethal assistance through
Jordan, CIA and through Turkey to the opposition. But the opposition is
fragmented, incapable and more radical elements, principally, the foreign
fighters have taken over the opposition in terms of the fighting. And
inevitable what will happen if you start to pass weapons to the opposition,
they will fall into the hands of the extremists,” Security analysts and former
Pentagon official Michael Maloof told RT.
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