The jihadists of the Islamic State (EI) executed 160 soldiers in northern Syria, where an armed war group had kidnapped Thursday 43 peacekeepers in the Golan, while President Barack Obama says not yet have a firm strategy .
The EI, an armed group that controls part of Syria and Iraq, "executed between yesterday and early today (Thursday) to more than 160 Syrian soldiers in three separate locations in the province of Raqa in the north," said OSDH (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights), based in Britain. According to this source, the soldiers were captured during the making of the base in late July and Tabqa military airport on Sunday. Also when fleeing from the airport on Wednesday night to the town of Esraya in the province of Hama, in the hands of the regime, he said.
Meanwhile, portals jihadists released a two-minute video in which they are, according to them, the soldiers captured and then executed. In the first pictures, dozens of youths walking along a road in underwear, bare, her hands on her head, surrounded by armed jihadists, one of which carries a banner of EI.
Then, after a flat in which several bodies are stacked, the camera films a little further a long row of bodies on the floor face down. About 10 men, who appear to be inhabitants of the region, look. In another part of the country, in the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights, captured an armed group of 43 soldiers from Fiji peacekeepers from the UN and 81's, originating in the Philippines that remain "retained in their positions," according to the United Nations.
United States Thursday accused the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, the Frente Al Nosra, responsible along with other armed groups in the arrest of 43 UN peacekeepers on the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel. The State Department in a statement called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of the members of the body of UN peacekeeping in the region under their control since 1974.
Help besieged civilians
In northern Iraq, Thursday jihadists torched an oil field that controlled before retiring to an offensive Kurdish forces in the area, said local authorities. According to the UN, thousands of Amerli, also in northern Iraq, mostly Shiite Turkmen, are threatened both by his faith, that the jihadis considered heresy, for two months the siege of insurgents ago .
The Iraqi army-backed militias moved Thursday toward Amerli besieged for more than two months ago by the EI. Moreover, while this was happening on the ground in its Thursday edition the Washington Post said that at least four Western hostages EI in Syria, including the American executed journalist James Foley, were tortured with waterboarding at the beginning of his captivity .
Foley, whose recent execution by militants in retaliation for the American air strikes in Iraq caused global outrage, and other hostages were tortured "several times," the paper said, citing people related to her abduction.
Sources involved in efforts to free the hostages confirmed to AFP that waterboarding or submarine was used with at least one hostage. The "submarine" was used by the CIA during interrogations of suspected terrorists after the attacks of September 11, 2011.
Obama does not have a strategy
At a press conference at the White House, President Barack Obama said: "we do not have a strategy." United States "does not put the cart before the horse" the president added.
Washington, which evaluates the launch of air strikes, "does not have to choose" between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fighters and jihadists, Obama said. United States and began a series of air strikes in northern Iraq last August 8, and now performs surveillance flights over Syria that could precede an air campaign. "I've seen in press reports indicate that some elements are going a little far from where we are right now," added the president.
Obama also announced that he will send his Secretary of State, John Kerry, to the Middle East to start for a joint regional effort against EI with partners in the region, especially the Sunni-majority countries. The American president, who authorized airstrikes against IE in Iraq, said military action barely contain the advance of that group in the short term, and that a permanent eradication depended on political and diplomatic actions at regional level. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday he was ready to work with the international community to pursue jihadists in its territory.
Google Translate for Business:Translator ToolkitWebsite TranslatorGlobal Market Finder
0 comments:
Post a Comment