ISIL slows fighting in Syria to focus on Iraq

While the militias of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) advanced rapidly in recent days to just 100 kilometers from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Sunni Islamist group has stopped fighting waged in neighboring Syria. ISIL radicals, organization born of the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda, seek to establish a Sunni caliphate in the region. So far there have been substantial parts of northern and eastern Syria, engaged in a civil war for more than three years ago and, this week, several cities in western Iraq.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, close to the Syrian rebel organization, said yesterday that it had detected a break of four days ISIL military operations on its territory. They’re just fighting in the vicinity of the disputed northern city of Aleppo. Radicals won Tuesday Iraq ‘s second largest city, Mosul, where they became a significant military arsenal of the Iraqi Army, who fled in disarray.

Syrian civil war, which already has more than 160,000 dead, has been internationalized this week, three years after the popular uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, degenerated into bloody sectarian war that extends throughout region.

Progress in Iraq will give the jihadist group greater freedom of movement, according to a report from the director of the Center on Terrorism and Insurgency Jane’s, Matthew Henman, quoted by Reuters. ” The ISIL light and heavy weapons, military vehicles and money in making captured Mosul to areas of eastern Syria has been using as a platform to [ carry out ] their attacks will be ” as Henman.

ISIL members are very active on social networks, where these days have deployed a massive propaganda about the weapons that got in Mosul. Islamists use a black flag emblazoned with colorful religious texts. It is impossible to verify how many are authentic from the photos of armored vehicles, Black Hawk helicopters and other weaponry adorned with the banner of ISIL, of course spoils of war, which have been disseminated on the Internet these days.

The group was expelled from Al Qaeda in 2013. Would consider an even more radical than its former parent group. In Syria controlled the only provincial capital in insurgent hands, Raqa, where they have shown relentless with dissidents and non- Sunnis as well as the application of Islamic law (Sharia). Raqa is also an administrative laboratory, the unofficial capital of the alleged State ISIL claims to represent.

While the regular army of the regime of Bashar al-Assad celebrates advances in western Syria and the recent decision of Homs, the ISIL Islamists maintain their own fierce internal war against rebels and other Islamist factions Al Nusra Front. The first launched an offensive against the latter in the province of Deir el Zor, which borders Iraq, which lasted six weeks and in that has killed 600 fighters.

These, also Sunni and linked to al Qaeda, control pockets insurgents next to the capital, Damascus. Dealing, for example, devastated Yarmuk refugee camp, where some 20,000 Palestinians living in absolute misery caught in the fighting between insurgents and army. The ISIL, meanwhile, is predominant in areas where the maps show the border between Syria and Iraq. Islamists have posted pictures of excavators liquidating the physical signs of that border, they do not recognize.

The senior Syrian officials to seen by this newspaper do not even want to mention the possibility of a partition of the country to resolve the war. The Assad regime remember the past more or less peaceful between Sunnis, Shiites, Christians and Alawites under the close surveillance of the state apparatus coexistence decades. The Alawite, now beloved targeted by Sunni militias, is an upcoming religious minority Shiites. She belong Assad and his family.

The faction loyal to Damascus has international support from Russia, the Shiite clerical regime in Iran and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah. Besides the two branches Shiites sympathetic to Assad inside Syria also supported the secular mass of large cities, many Christians and other minorities such as the Druze. More than love the regime of pure terror to Sunni forces ISIL and its brutal application of Islamic law.

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