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Hadeh ... --- In [email protected], Bukan Pedanda <bukan.pedanda@...> wrote: > > > Dar al Islam yang bersimbah darah...... > > > 'Open-ended' Syrian conflict draws in region > By Matt Smith, CNN > June 1, 2013 -- Updated 1523 GMT (2323 HKT) > Forces loyal to Syrian President > Bashar al-Assad are seen near Qusair on Thursday, May 30. Tensions in > Syria flared in March 2011 during the onset of the Arab Spring, > eventually escalating into a civil war that still rages. This gallery > contains the most compelling images taken since the start of the > conflict. > HIDE CAPTION > Syrian civil war in photos > << > < > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 9 > 10 > 11 > 12 > 13 > 14 > 15 > 16 > 17 > 18 > 19 > 20 > 21 > 22 > 23 > 24 > 25 > 26 > 27 > 28 > 29 > 30 > 31 > 32 > 33 > 34 > 35 > 36 > 37 > 38 > 39 > 40 > 41 > 42 > 43 > 44 > 45 > 46 > 47 > 48 > 49 > 50 > 51 > 52 > 53 > 54 > 55 > 56 > 57 > 58 > 59 > 60 > 61 > 62 > 63 > 64 > 65 > 66 > 67 > 68 > 69 > 70 > 71 > 72 > 73 > 74 > 75 > 76 > 77 > 78 > 79 > 80 > 81 > 82 > 83 > 84 > 85 > 86 > 87 > 88 > 89 > 90 > 91 > 92 > 93 > 94 > 95 > 96 > 97 > 98 > 99 > 100 > 101 > 102 > 103 > 104 > 105 > 106 > 107 > 108 > 109 > 110 > 111 > 112 > 113 > 114 > 115 > 116 > 117 > 118 > 119 > 120 > 121 > 122 > > > >> > STORY HIGHLIGHTS > * Syria's civil war "is no longer an internal struggle," analyst says > * The conflict has jumped across the Turkish, Iraqi and Lebanese borders > * U.N. official warns the fighting "is destabilizing the region as a > whole" > (CNN) -- Rocket attacks in Lebanon. Car bombs in Turkey. Israeli airstrikes > in Syria. > In the two-plus years > since President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on "Arab Spring" > demonstrations, observers say the civil war that grew out of it has now > become a multi-sided conflict that threatens to set the wider Middle > East ablaze. > "The Syrian conflict is > no longer an internal struggle between Assad and the internal > opposition," said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at > the London School of Economics. "It's an open-ended war by proxy -- > Iran, Hezbollah and Syria, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, plus Russia > and the United States." > ANALYSIS: EU ends embargo -- what next? > In the meantime, he said, Syrian society is disintegrating. And after more > than 70,000 deaths > inside the country, the conflict is increasingly jumping the borders. > Syria's new ground zero > Syrian rebel: A massacre is coming > Assad plans to seek re-election in 2014 > Should Syrian rebels be given weapons? > The past few weeks have > seen a pair of car bombs kill dozens of people in a town that has > welcomed some of the 300,000-plus Syrian refugees who have fled to > Turkey. > Turkish officials said > the bombings were carried out by members of a former Marxist terror > group with ties to Syria's intelligence services; Syria denied > responsibility, but said Turkey ,a NATO ally, had been helping > "terrorists" get weapons and money. > Meanwhile, the Persian > Gulf monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar have backed Sunni rebel > factions against al-Assad, a member of the Shiite offshoot Alawite sect. The > European Union is lifting an arms embargo on Syria after Britain > and France refused to agree to an extension. > OPINION: More arms to Syria is a mistake > But on the battlefield, > the momentum that appeared to be on the rebel side earlier this year now > seems to have shifted to al-Assad, said Robin Wright, a Middle East > analyst at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. > "That will go back and > forth," Wright told CNN. "The tragedy of this is the inflow of weapons > just means more people are going to be killed, and there doesn't seem to be a > military outcome likely on either side anytime soon." > France says Hezbollah, > the powerful Lebanese Shiite militia backed by Iran and Syria, has > dispatched up to 4,000 fighters to Syria to bolster al-Assad's forces. > Gerges said those fighters have "already produced major results," > particularly in the ongoing battle for the strategically located border > town of Qusayr. > Rocket attacks have > struck Shiite towns inside Lebanon, where a fragile sectarian and > political balance has held since the end of a civil war that wracked the > country from 1975 to 1990. And three Lebanese soldiers were killed by > unidentified gunmen who opened fire on their checkpoint this week, > Lebanon's national news agency reported. > MORE: American woman killed in Syria > Walid Jumblatt, a > veteran Lebanese political leader and a former Syrian ally, contends the > conflict threatens to reopen Lebanon's old wounds. But he said > confronting Hezbollah over its involvement "will just lead us to the > sectarian warfare that is starting in Iraq, in Syria and might spread to > Lebanon." > "I'm more concerned about the stability of my country," Jumblatt, the leader > of Lebanon's Druze minority, told CNN's "Amanpour." > Fighting has also > spilled over into Iraq, with jihadist groups on both sides of the border > growing in strength, Western counterterrorism officials warned in > March. > Fighters from the > Islamic State of Iraq, the al Qaeda affilliate that has bedeviled > Baghdad for years, said it had killed at least 40 Syrians in an ambush > on a Syrian convoy inside Iraq. The troops were being escorted by Iraqi > forces to the only border post the Syrian government still controlled. > "The increasing number > of foreign fighters crossing Syria's borders to support one side or the > other is further fueling the sectarian violence and the situation is > beginning to show worrying signs of destabilizing the region as a > whole," Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned > Wednesday. > Then there's Israel, > which is believed to have conducted at least two airstrikes inside Syria to > prevent Syrian forces from transferring advanced missiles to > Hezbollah. > Israel braces for the worst with Syria > Who are the Syrian rebels? > What's next in Syria? > American woman killed in Syria > MORE: Russian fighter jets heading to Syria > Israel fought a > month-long war with Hezbollah in 2006 and never signed a peace agreement with > Syria after the 1948, 1967 and 1973 Mideast wars. > Syria said Thursday that Russia, its most powerful ally, will deliver on a > 2010 purchase of > advanced anti-aircraft missiles. Moscow has defended the deal, saying it > falls within international law and that the missiles aren't designed > for use against civilians. > Gerges said the deal is a strong Russian signal to the West: "Stay away from > Syria." > "Russia is the backbone > of the Assad regime. It has provided them with arms. It has provided > them with political support. It has used its veto twice in the (U.N.) > Security Council. It has gone to great lengths to prevent any kind of > military intervention in Syria," he said. > The United States has > provided non-lethal aid and political support to the Syrian opposition, > but the Obama administration has resisted calls to provide military aid > to the rebels. > At the same time, > Washington is trying to work with Russia to coax the opposition and the > government to peace talks, concerned about "a region-wide conflict," > Gerges said. > "That's why they have > intensified their diplomacy to rescue Syria from really all-out > destruction and also rescue the entire region from a region-wide > conflict where American and international peace and security are really > at stake," he said. > But the opposition > Syrian National Coalition said Thursday that it wouldn't take part "when > Syrians are constantly being hammered by the Assad regime with the help of > outside forces," as George Sabra, its acting chairman, put it. > The opposition remains > split along secular and sectarian, military and political lines. Those > divisions have been "a real obstacle" to negotiations, Wright said. > "Both the United States > and Russia have agreed that diplomacy is necessary, and they haven't > been able to agree on that, even, for a long time," she said. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
