The northernmost parts of the Hama Province, and the southernmost strip of the Idlib Province have been the site of a lot of rebel infighting in recent weeks, with the moderate Islamist coalition facing heavy offensives from the less-moderate Islamist coalition dominated by al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.
Today, a third faction is involved, as the Nusra coalition claimed to have been attacked by Jund al-Aqsa, a faction coordinating with ISIS, and that this other Islamist faction launched suicide attacks and car bombings against them.
Jund al-Aqsa had been fighting alongside Nusra in some previous battles but they had a falling out last year, with reports saying there were significant ideological differences centered on the Jund’s closer identification with ISIS than with al-Qaeda.
The moderate Islamist faction, which up until a couple of weeks ago had been the dominant faction in northern Hama, insists they were totally uninvolved in today’s fighting, but that’s probably not going to be the case for long, with the close proximity of western-backed moderates to more hardline groups usually leading to fights.
Is there a CHANCE we will get the NAME IF THIS MODERATE COALITION, and now, we have Al -Nusra being promoted to LESS MODERATE, I was hoping that this games would be over once US bombed Al-Nusra in Idlib and called them their proper name Al-Qaeda.
Are we back to sorting out their degree of cultish devotion to head/hand chopping?
We have just two kinds of militants in Syria. Those that qualify for the peace negotiations and are observing ceasefire — and those that by UN DEFINITION do not. Any Al-Qaeda associated group and ISIS –and their admirers are terrorists. The more or less moderate is irrelevant now. Unless now that they got rid of Flynn, CIA can go back to its ISIS friends, and Saudi royal gets the medal for “fighting terrorism”. Back to Wahhabi heaven!
ISIS is no longer a priority.
January 11, 2016 U.S. Dropped 23,144 Bombs On Muslim-Majority Countries In 2015
Council of Foreign Relations resident skeptic Micah Zenko recently tallied up how many bombs the United States has dropped on other countries and the results are as depressing as one would think. Zenko figured that since Jan. 1, 2015, the U.S. has dropped around 23,144 bombs on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, all countries that are majority Muslim.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-dropped-23144-bombs-on-muslim-majority-countries-in-2015/212638/