SYRIA - UN and international community have failed: 2014 worst year for Syrian civilians » 03/12/2015SYRIA - UNUN and international community have failed: 2014 worst year for Syrian civiliansA report submitted by 21 NGOs accuses the Syrian regime and rebels of targeting civilian homes, hospitals, schools. Members of the Security Council and States have slowed the implementation of UN resolutions in favor of civilians. In 2014, 76 thousand people were killed, about 210 000 in four years. This year donations for aid to the population have reached only 57% of needed funds. London (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The UN Security Council and the international community are responsible for "the most terrible year" yet in the Syrian conflict: the UN has failed to implement its resolutions; the world has failed to respond sufficiently to the humanitarian disaster which is exacing an increasingly higher toll. In 2014 three resolutions had appealed to the warring parties to protect civilians. Next year, the UN needs at least $ 8.4 billion to help more than 11 million Syrian refugees.
push-in-un-to-intercept-jihadists-oil A panel has urged the Security Council to order all countries to seize oil trucks coming in and out of territory controlled by jihadists in Iraq and Syria and to impose a global moratorium on the sale of antiquities from the two countries. Both oil and antiquities are thought to be vital sources of financing for the groups that call themselves the Islamic State and the Nusra Front. The recommendations were made by a panel of experts appointed by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and released late Monday. They come two months after the Council sought to muster global support to confront the rise of the Islamic State. Some of the recommendations would require further Security Council authorization. The report estimated that the Islamic State earns oil revenues of $846,000 to $1,645,000 a day. The panel also said that countries in the region should do more to stop the movement of fighters into Iraq and Syria. OPEN Graphic
Lebanon: Syrians Refugees Facing Deadly Winter with Little Aid For the refugees living in tents in Lebanon, the storm has yet to subside. The fear of death stays with them like the snow that has swept through their tents. Noura, who escaped from the hell of Aleppo to end up in an unofficial camp in Bar Elias, expresses grave concern over the situation. Carrying her baby in her arms to give him warmth, she says: “I only received food aid twice in the past four months. In the Bekaa town of Bar Elias, at an altitude of 900 meters, there are several camps for Syrian refugees, though they are not clearly visible at first because of the white blanket of snow. Now an old concern has resurfaced: frost. According to figures provided by the Ministry of Health, 11 people have died as a result of the storm: three Syrians froze in Shebaa and were buried there, four Bangladeshi nationals died in Danniyeh, a Palestinian was found frozen on the sidewalk in Rashaya last Friday, and three Lebanese citizens died from storm-related health complications. Rameh Hamiyeh
suspicions-run-deep-in-iraq-that-cia-and-the-islamic-state-are-united BAGHDAD — The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi government that the is secretly behind the same extremists that it is now attacking. “We know about who made Daesh,” said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime minister, using an Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State on Saturday at a demonstration called by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn against the possible deployment of American ground troops. When an American journalist asked Mr. Continue reading the main story OPEN Graphic The prevalence of the theory in the streets underscored the deep suspicions of the American military’s return to more than a decade after its invasion, in 2003. Haidar al-Assadi, 40, agreed. Many at the rally in Baghdad said they welcomed airstrikes against Mr.
Food enters besieged Homs, Syria after local deal: UN In the absence of a nationwide peace deal, relief groups have tried to get localized agreements with fighters on all sides of the conflict to get convoys through to people in battle zones. Food was sent to Waar Thursday, Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s World Food Program, told journalists in Geneva. "Following extensive negotiations between parties to the conflict, a first convoy carrying 8,500 family food rations were delivered to the besieged area of Al-Waar," - enough food for about 42,500 people for one month, Byrs said. Two more convoys over the coming days will deliver food to 75,000 people, she added, 30 percent of the estimated quarter of a million people the United Nations says are trapped in besieged areas across Syria. Waar has witnessed an intensification of shelling and heavy clashes which prevented all access for humanitarian deliveries, WFP said in a statement. Waar has been cut off for nearly two years by government forces, opposition activists say.
الصراع مع "داعش" يعيد توزيع الخريطة الاقتصادية العراقية - قال معهد أبحاث السياسة الخارجية بالولايات المتحدة إن الوضع الاقتصادي في الأراضي التي يسيطر عليها تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية "داعش" ينذر بكارثة، باعتباره أنه الأسوأ مقارنة بباقي المناطق الأخرى بالعراق بسبب الاحتياجات الاقتصادية الكبيرة والموارد التي تواجه قيودا شديدة للحصول عليها، مشيراً إلى أن حكومة بغداد تستطيع أن تحقق فائضا في ميزانيتها الأولى في حالة تقسيم البلاد بعد استبعاد المناطق التي تسيطر عليها "داعش" وإقليم شمال العراق. وذكر المعهد أن الوضع الاقتصادي في المناطق الخاضعة لسيطرة الحكومة العراقية في بغداد هو الأفضل الآن حيث لا تزال تستحوذ على 84% من صادرات النفط العراقي، بينما الوضع الاقتصادي في المناطق الخاضعة لحكومة إقليم شمال العراق يواجه تحديات وإن كان أفضل من المناطق الخاضعة لسيطرة "داعش". وكشف التقرير أن تنظيم "داعش" يسيطر على نحو 40% من أراضي العراق بما في ذلك محافظات الأنبار ونينوى وصلاح الدين، وجزء كبير من كركوك وأجزاء من محافظات ديالى وبابل، ويسكنها ما يتراوح بين 25- 35 % من السكان، يوجد بها نحو 11% من الاحتياطيات النفطية.
The 29 Most Iconic Photos of 2014 Protests to progress, deadly warfare to beautiful acts of compassion, frivolous selfies to powerful moments of defiance were all captured on camera year. As 2014 comes to a close, here's a look back at the moments that we'll be remembering for years to come: Syrians flood a refugee camp during the country's bloody civil war. Residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk line up to receive food supplies in Damascus, Syria, in this Jan. 31 photo released by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The image helped convey the sheer scale of Syria's humanitarian disaster, which has killed more than 200,000 civilians and displaced more than 7 million since 2011. Legal marijuana comes to Colorado. Tyler Williams picks out pot at the 3-D Denver Discrete Dispensary on Jan 1., the day that laws legalizing recreational marijuana went into effect. A vivid timelapse of Independence Square in Kiev captures protests. The selfie seen around the world.
Pourquoi il est compliqué de combattre l’Etat islamique Europe 1Barthélémy Gaillard Videos S’il peut le mettre K.O d’un maître coup de poing, il est souvent difficile pour un poids lourd d’atteindre le poids mouche. Ce scénario de David contre Goliath, les Etats-Unis le connaissent bien, puisque la première puissance militaire mondiale doit y faire face au Waziristan (la frontière afghano-pakistanaise) depuis 2004. Elle devrait d'autres difficultés dans sa lutte contre l’Etat islamique, le "cancer" qu’Obama a promis de "détruire" après que deux journalistes américains ont été décapités ces derniers jours. >> LIRE AUSSI : Obama dévoilera sa stratégie mercredi Parce qu’il faut lancer une opération terrestre. Parce qu’il faut trouver des alliés régionaux. >> LIRE AUSSI : Le reportage en Irak de notre envoyé spécial "Vols, tortures au quotidien" La future coalition devra donc trouver des alliés dans la région pour mener les combats terrestres. >> LIRE AUSSI : Face à l'EI, Paris n'exclut pas une réponse militaire
The Syrian Conflict Is Severely Disrupting The Lives Of 5.5 Million Children - BuzzFeed News TERRORISME • Le dernier otage américain aux mains de l'Etat islamique est une femme Après la diffusion ce week-end de la vidéo de la décapitation de l'otage américain Peter Kassig, le sort de la jeune ressortissante américaine est désormais au cœur de toutes les inquiétudes. "Après le meurtre brutal de Peter Kassig, le jeune humanitaire de 26 ans, les djihadistes de l'Etat islamique n'ont plus qu'une ressortissante américaine entre leurs mains. Elle a le même âge que Kassig et aurait été kidnappée en août 2013 en même temps que plusieurs autres travailleurs humanitaires", rapporte le site internet américain The Daily Beast.Pour l'instant, de lourdes incertitudes pèsent sur son sort.
$163 million to educate Syrian refugees United Nations: The UN envoy for global education called Wednesday for a multimillion-dollar fund to provide education for children in emergencies and urged donors to start with $163 million to educate half a million Syrian children who are refugees in Lebanon. Gordon Brown told a news conference Wednesday that it’s time for decisive action to prevent millions of children from falling through the cracks and losing out on an education. Brown, a former British prime minister, said there have been more than 10,000 attacks on schools during the past five years and 28 million boys and girls are not in school in areas of conflict and emergency. He said the growing education crisis reaches from Iraq to Nigeria and from South Sudan to Pakistan. Brown called for international donors to reach agreement this spring on the new fund. Brown said he hopes that this idea could be expanded to Jordan, Turkey and other countries with large numbers of refugee children.
ÉTAT ISLAMIQUE • Maxime Hauchard, un bourreau à l'accent français Un natif de Haute-Normandie a été identifié parmi les assassins de l'humanitaire américain Peter Kassig. La nouvelle est tout sauf une surprise pour la presse internationale. "Un Français de 22 ans entraîné pour décapiter", titre La Vanguardia. Le quotidien espagnol affiche en une l'image extraite d’une vidéo diffusée le 16 novembre par l’organisation Etat islamique (EI) et sur laquelle apparaît Maxime Hauchard. Assyrians struggle in Lebanon after fleeing Daesh Many members of this ancient Middle Eastern community are leaving the region altogether Image Credit: AFP Beirut: Waiting in an aid line outside Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Assyrian Christian Francie Yaacoub remembers the well-stocked home she left behind in Syria as she fled advancing Daesh terrorists. “We left behind a house full of everything. She is one of hundreds of Assyrian Christians who have arrived in Lebanon in recent weeks after Daesh terrorists stormed their villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakeh. Members of Lebanon’s Assyrian community, many of them related to those who fled Hasakeh, are doing their best to welcome the new refugees, but the displacement has left them traumatised. Francie, in her fifties, now lives in a small house with her son, husband and five other Assyrian refugees. Her family fled their village, Tal Nasri, during a terrifying Daesh bombardment last week. “We left in our pyjamas. “The shells were falling all around us... ‘Great tragedy’