If you can't tell the difference between a tactical alliance between groups fighting a common enemy and an ideological "coalition" then I don't know how you would have negotiated WWII (or any other armed conflict for that matter). Moreover Suqour al-Jabal was part of the Fateh Halab operations room in Aleppo, which did not include Jabhat al Nusra. It may have coordinated with JaN and Ahrar as-Sham at some points, but that would seem to be "just common sense", wouldn't it?
I have two questions about this: is Hatla a Sunni or Shia majority village? Juan says the latter but the original sources (including SOHR) say the former (AP even gives a breakdown - 30% Shia)If its Shia why has the Syrian army been shelling it with some regularity?
2. was there a "massacre"? There's plenty of violent sectarian talk and claims in the videos - but the reported deaths range from 30 (SANA) to 60 (SOHR) and its clear there was a fierce firefight in the village between rebel forces and regime militia(10 rebels reported killed plus wounded); so some proportion of the deaths must have been regime combatants, killed in combat. There is no attempt in the reporting to distinguish combatant and civilian casualities, so we have little evidence as to the number of civilian deaths - two bodies shown in the videos (one of whom could have been a fighter); and cross-reports suggesting 3 Shia clerics and one of their children killed.
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If you can't tell the difference between a tactical alliance between groups fighting a common enemy and an ideological "coalition" then I don't know how you would have negotiated WWII (or any other armed conflict for that matter). Moreover Suqour al-Jabal was part of the Fateh Halab operations room in Aleppo, which did not include Jabhat al Nusra. It may have coordinated with JaN and Ahrar as-Sham at some points, but that would seem to be "just common sense", wouldn't it?
I have two questions about this: is Hatla a Sunni or Shia majority village? Juan says the latter but the original sources (including SOHR) say the former (AP even gives a breakdown - 30% Shia)If its Shia why has the Syrian army been shelling it with some regularity?
2. was there a "massacre"? There's plenty of violent sectarian talk and claims in the videos - but the reported deaths range from 30 (SANA) to 60 (SOHR) and its clear there was a fierce firefight in the village between rebel forces and regime militia(10 rebels reported killed plus wounded); so some proportion of the deaths must have been regime combatants, killed in combat. There is no attempt in the reporting to distinguish combatant and civilian casualities, so we have little evidence as to the number of civilian deaths - two bodies shown in the videos (one of whom could have been a fighter); and cross-reports suggesting 3 Shia clerics and one of their children killed.