Yesterday, the Syrian rebel faction the “High Negotiations Council” (HNC) announced that it intended to abide by the ceasefire deal announced by the US and Russia. Today, they have backed off of that, saying they support the idea in theory, but haven’t committed to it.
Instead, the group says that they are willing to accept a separate two-week ceasefire as opposed to this open-ended one, to see if everyone is “serious.” They also rejected the idea of Russia being one of the nations negotiating the ceasefire.
The Syrian government has confirmed they are going to abide by the ceasefire, and today the Kurdish YPG also affirmed their intention to go along with the deal. Other rebel factions not part of the Saudi-backed HNC have not gone public about their intentions.
Officials say that factions have until noon Friday to announce whether or not they intend to take part in the ceasefire. It’s not clear what will happen to factions that don’t endorse the deal, though the terms explicitly exclude both ISIS and al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front, meaning fighting will continue against them at least.
Russia, Syria, Kurds will abide by the ceasfire and the terrorist not? Not a good deal. It was too early for a ceasefire anyway, they should have spent at least one more month blowing up ISIS.
Did you read the whole article? The terms exclude ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra. (Unless you’re referring to areas held by other rebels with a different name.)
But it’s best for Russia to get out of the Middle East. Innocent civilians are being massacred by bombs and airstrikes. For example, Russia killed 20 civilians, a majority of them kids.. The U.S. commonly confuse ISIS fighters with civilians and civilians are slaughtered by the airstrikes. Also Assad isn’t the good guy either. He imprisons and murders his peaceful opposition. He might also be bombing his peaceful opposition, calling them “terrorists”. That might the reason why 99% of the casualties from his barrel bombs were civilians.
And what are you advocating? That ISIS take over Syria? Like that will be good for civilians.
Not quite. From what I gather of 3D Face Analysis posts, his solution involves all foreign powers leaving Syria, except for Turkey, since they have been such good guys in taking in refugees and putting those bloodletting Kurds in their place.
The Assad regime has lost its legitimacy because it bombs its own people and tortures and kills the peaceful opposition. Any state who does this would lose its legitimacy. In Egypt for example the El-Sisi regime is accepted by only 17% by its population because it detains and tortures its peaceful opposition and killed thousands of peaceful demonstrators.
Syrian refugees in Germany blame Assad more than the Islamic State and most would only go back to Syria if Assad is gone.
Some people would indeed rather live under the Islamic State than the Assad regime that bombs its own people:
We haven’t seen anyone who actually spreads neocon propaganda around here in a while. Welcome.
The insurgents seem determined to get themselves wiped out.