The Iraqi army is said
to be shelling Free Syrian Army (FSA) positions inside Syria near the border
with Iraq.
After helping Syrian
government forces regain control of the Iraq-Syria al-Ya’robia border crossing
from Syrian rebel forces overnight, Iraqi artillery is at this writing pounding
FSA forces in al-Hasakah governorate in the far northeastern corner of Syria.
Hasan Sari, a respected
Jordanian commentator on Middle East affairs, global activist, filmmaker and founder
of CIFF, reports on his Twitter account,
“Hasakah in Syria is under heavy Iraqi artillery shelling now. [Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri] al-Maliki is waging war on FSA.”
Maliki and Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah – both Shiites
and unabashed surrogates of Shiite Iran – openly warned this week of regional
sectarian conflict if Syria’s quasi-Shiite President Bashar al-Assad is ousted
(see my earlier post, “Iran proxies growl: Hands off Assad.”)
