MamAfrika TV | Allain Jules

Χαλέπι, Συρία (6:08ΤΩ) – Έχουν κοινούς εχθρούς, είναι το ισλαμικό κράτος (Νταές)
και ο τουρκικός στρατός. Έτσι, είμαστε θεατές μιας νέας συμφωνίας
μεταξύ της συριακής κυβέρνησης και των Κούρδων της Συρίας. 
Η Δαμασκός
άνοιξε έναν εμπορικό δρόμο με τους Κούρδους.

Για να αποφευχθεί οποιαδήποτε σύγκρουση με τους Κούρδους μετά την προέλαση του Συριακού Αραβικού Στρατού στα ανατολικά του Χαλεπίου, το συριακό Κράτος
άνοιξε επίσημους δεσμούς με τις «Δημοκρατικές Δυνάμεις της Συρίας» (SDS) στο συριακό Κουρδιστάν. Η μόνη προυπάρχουσα διαφωνία είναι η
άρνηση της Δαμασκού για ανεξάρτητο Κουρδιστάν στο έδαφός της. Ίσως θα δεχθεί το πολύ, την αυτονομία …

Πράγματι, από τούδε και στο εξής, οι Κούρδοι κάτοικοι μπορούν να
εισέλθουν στην απομονωμένη συνοικία του Σέιχ Μακσούντ (Sheikh Maqsud, με κουρδική πλειοψηφία του πληθυσμού) στο Χαλέπι, ενώ τα μέλη της
οικογένειας των στρατευμάτων του συριακού στρατού που σταθμεύουν γύρω από τη
Χασάκα και το Καμισλί, μπορούν τώρα να επισκεφθούν ελεύθερα τους συγγενείς τους, για πρώτη φορά από το … 2012!

Με τη ροή του εμπορίου μεταξύ των περιοχών που βρίσκονται στην κατοχή των
Κούρδων της Συρίας και εκείνων που κατέχουν οι αμιγώς Σύροι, ο Συριακός Στρατός
και οι SDS στηρίζουν ο ένας τον άλλο στο στρατιωτικό πεδίο της μάχης στα ανατολικά
του Χαλεπίου, κατά των τουρκικών ένοπλων δυνάμεων και του Νταές.

Οι SDS και ο συριακός στρατός σχεδιάζουν να επεκτείνουν τον εμπορικό τους δρόμο,
στενό για την ώρα, για να εξασφαλιστεί η διέλευση των εμπορευμάτων και των
φορτηγών τροφοδοσίας με κάθε ασφάλεια. Εάν οι κυβερνητικές δυνάμεις θα
καταφέρουν να εκδιώξουν τα τουρκικά στρατεύματα από την Αλ-Μπαμπ, αυτό θα ήταν
επίσης ένας τρόπος για να αποκατασταθεί ο δρόμος M4 μεταξύ του Χαλεπιού
και της Ιεράπολης, για το μελλοντικό εμπόριο.

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Reuters: Syrian army advance opens new link to Kurdish areas

A Syrian
army advance against Islamic State in northern Syria has opened a new
link between government-held areas in western Syria and the
Kurdish-dominated northeast, redrawing the map of the conflict near the
Turkish border.The
advance, if sustained, could open a trade lifeline between the
northeast, which has 70 percent of Syria’s oil and also includes rich
farmland, and the west, where Syria’s manufacturing is based.
Northern Syria is one of the most complicated battlefields in the multi-sided Syrian war that erupted in 2011.
The
army advance has taken place to the south of an area where Turkey and
its rebel allies are waging their own, rival campaign, carving out a
buffer zone to keep Islamic State and Kurdish groups away from the
Turkish border.
Syrian
government forces have now come to the edge of a swathe of territory
dominated by the Kurdish YPG militia, which has mostly avoided conflict
with Damascus but is seen by Turkey as an extension of the PKK militant
group that has waged a three-decade insurgency on Turkish territory. The
YPG’s critics have accused it of cooperating with Damascus in the
Syrian war.
The spokesman
for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a militia alliance dominated by
the YPG, said the Syrian army’s advance would bring benefits to
civilians in the area.
“On
the trade front and on the civilian front it is seen as an excellent
thing, because now there is … a link between the entire northern rural
area,” spokesman Talal Silo told Reuters.
Now,
he said, there was a direct route from the SDF-controlled town of
Manbij to the city of Aleppo “via areas controlled by the SDF and areas
controlled by the regime forces”.

There
was no immediate comment from the Syrian military on its latest
advances, but state media said the village of Fikha al Sagira was
captured as the army expanded control of areas south of al Bab city.
The city fell to Turkey-backed rebels on Thursday after months of heavy fighting against Islamic State militants.

By taking Islamic State territory south of al-Bab, the Syrian army is
seeking to prevent any possible move by Turkey and the rebel groups it
supports to expand southwards.
Free
Syrian Army (FSA) rebel groups participating in the Turkey-backed
‘Euphrates Shield’ operation also said on Monday they had captured a
string of villages east of al Bab.

“INTERESTS OF CITIZEN”

The Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said the army had captured some two dozen
villages from Islamic State, bringing it to the edge of SDF-held areas
south of Manbij.
The SDF captured Manbij from Islamic State last year with backing from the U.S.-led alliance against the jihadist group.

Silo
said residents of the northeast who had previously depended on medical
care in Aleppo and Damascus would be able to do so again. “All these
matters are in the interests of the citizen,” he said.
The
Syrian government still has footholds in YPG-dominated northeastern
Syria in the cities of Qamishli and Hasaka. The YPG also controls part
of the city of Aleppo, where government forces and their allies defeated
rebels in December.
The
YPG forms the military backbone of three autonomous areas set up in
predominantly Kurdish regions of northern Syria since the onset of the
conflict in 2011.
Turkey’s
intervention has disrupted the YPG’s plans to link up the two
autonomous areas of northeastern Syria with the third one, which is
located in northwestern Syria.
The
main Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies want to preserve their
autonomy in a new federal system of government for Syria. Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad opposes the idea.
(Reporting by Tom Perry and Suleiman al-Khalidi; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Gareth Jones)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-north-idUSKBN16625O