A Jordanian girl holds a poster of pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh earlier this week. Kasaesbeh has purportedly been burned alive by his ISIS captors. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)
The Assad forces have been hitting IS hard. One strike was just outside Damascus.
February 3, 2015
By Thomson Reuters
A video released (click here) by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Tuesday purported to show captive Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh being burned alive.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the video, which showed a man resembling the captive pilot standing in a black cage before being set ablaze. Kasaesbeh has been in ISIS captivity since his plane crashed over Syria in December.
The head of the Jordanian armed forces told his family he had been killed, a member of the family told Reuters....
I think he is leaving some areas in the region to the Kurds and other groups such as Hezbollah. It would appear his military is primarily stripped of any conventional forces and are relying on IEDs. Whether or not that is a wise decision by The West is questionable. Assad was not capable of this level of cruel killing. I know there are many stating he is a cruel and dangerous dictate. That doesn't appear to be the case. No one is saying he is a Boy Scout, but, he isn't IS. He was cooperating and then abandoned.
February 3 ,2015
...Another 17 people were killed (click here) and tens of others were injured when regime planes attacked the Casim region in Deraa.
Yusuf Bustani, a local activist, told The Anadolu Agency that regime planes attacked residential areas in Douma, about 10 km north-east of the capital.
Bustani said that among the dead were many women and children. Houses, commercial buildings and vehicles were also destroyed in the attack.
Syria has been gripped by constant fighting since the regime launched a violent crackdown in response to anti-government protests in March 2011, triggering a conflict, which has spiraled into civil war....
