Brahimi, addressing the representatives of the 15 member countries of the Council, said that according to the estimates of the Syrian regime, 5.000 foreigners are participating in the conflicts in the country and that Damascus believes that the civil war is actually the result of a conspiracy from abroad.
As the ambassadors of several countries told Agence France-Presse, Brahimi reiterated that for now he does not have a new plan for solving the crisis in Syria and added that the plan of his predecessor Kofi Annan is good and should be followed.
Brahimi recalled that according to the data of the opposition Syrian Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights, since March last year, when the conflicts began, 29.000 people have died in Syria.
The envoy of the UN and the Arab League for Syria also said that torture of prisoners has become commonplace in Syria, as well as that Syrians are afraid to go to hospitals, which are under the control of the regime.
According to him, 1,5 million people have left their homes in Syria, and the country is facing a serious food shortage, as a huge amount of the harvest has been destroyed.
Jihad begins?
The British Guardian writes that jihad veterans from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Libya and Iraq have arrived in Syria, where they are fighting against Bashar al-Assad's regime. Several hundred of these fighters are on the front line in Aleppo. The path of jihad leads through Turkey. The main base is Atmeh. After ten days of training, they get translators and go to the front.
Several hundred mujahideen are fighting on the side of the rebels in the civil war in Syria, writes the British Guardian, stating that the "path of jihad" in this war leads through Turkey, from where the fighters are transferred to Syrian territory and, after a short training, go into battle.
The fighters arrived in Syria from a dozen countries, so they need the help of translators. Each unit has its own translator, and fighters on the front line in Aleppo speak Chechen, Tajik, Turkish, French, and the Saudi dialect of Arabic. Among them there are many veterans of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.
The Chechens are even allowed to form their own unit, and the Syrian fighters call the Mujahideen "Turkish brothers".
Mujahideen, it seems, lack ammunition, which fighters from Libya especially complain about. Iraqi veterans mostly came to the front to avoid arrest in their country.
The newcomers also complain about the lack of experience of the Syrian fighters.
"If we were to fight the Americans, everyone would be dead by now," said one of them. "It's clear that the Syrian army is winning this war, but don't tell the Syrians that, because it would destroy their morale."
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