Syria is quickly and violently factionalizing, with the various rebel factions seizing territory in the north and the regime consolidating its gains around the capital city of Damascus. War is raging nationwide. And then there’s the northeast.
Oil rich northeastern Syria, the nation’s Kurdish region, has so far declined to take sides in the ongoing Civil War, but locals don’t see themselves being able to stay on the sideline forever, and many are flocking to Iraqi Kurdistan to prepare.
But what are they preparing for? That’s not clear at all, as the locals train with the Peshmearga, the militia of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and see the possibility of fighting either the Assad regime or the rebels.
Some estimates say that 25,000 Syrian Kurds are now in KRG-run camps for training, but exact details are scant as they are kept from leaving during their training.
The Assad regime has mostly pulled out of the area to focus on the civil war, and a few bombings aside the rebels haven’t showed much interest in it either. How long this will last remains to be seen.
Syria is not factionalizing at all ! The people stood behind Assad with 51 percent according to an Arab league poll and now should have reached 75 percent since nobody wants to be ruled by those killer sent by NATO countries.
Only because Turkey trains and hosts and protects the NATO terrorists they can for some days occupy a certain region temporarily.
I regard this Jason Ditz article as war mongering propaganda.
See the backround that is always censored here:
Key-reasons and powers behind the attack on Syria http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons-…