Syria in 2015

[OUTLAW 09]

WHY has the FSA TOW teams been targeting "bulldozers"???????

Well worth reading......

It seems every week someone is asking why bother destroying bulldozers in Syria. Here you go. ATGMs and logistics. http://www.type63.com/2015/10/but-why-bulldozers-impact-of-destroying.html …

Damascus Statement about #Russia'n airstrike on hospital in suburb #Douma today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9-mbFwXBBc&feature=youtu.be …

VIDEO: Children heard crying under the ruble after #Russian airstrike on rebel held Hayan #Aleppo - @AEJKhalil

Clashes btw #Assad-forces & #IslamicState at Sheikh Helal along regime supply-route #Hama -> #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.245759&lon=37.505264&z=13&m=b …

Remains of #Russia'n clusterbomb that hit #Aleppo city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhKIiy0zy4 …

[OUTLAW 09]

Assad regime. Their supply line in Aleppo is gone. No food can enter their areas where 1 million ppl live

Syrian Rebels retake almost ALL territory Assad regime gained after Russian intervention & now on the verge of major defeat in Aleppo

Now Red Crescent are begging Rebels 2 open supply line 4 civilians in Assad held areas. Civilians who are at least safe from barrel bombs

Then Assad regime tries to advance towards Kuweires after promising for 3 weeks they'll "capture it tomorrow" instead they were not only repelled by ISIS with heavy losses but ISIS also captured Jubboul village from them

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia still claiming to be bombing ISIS in Syria while bombing areas that any person with an IQ & a map knows there is no ISIS there

For example Russia bombed Hayan virtually no ISIS presence but FSA which they claim to want to "work with"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ3Sw3uMB_4 …

Russia also conducted airstrikes against the Southern FSA in Deraa that are allies with US & secular!

[OUTLAW 09]

BREAKING: Arab journalist unveils new Shi'ite terror group launched by Iran to take over power in Gaza armed w/sniper rifles & missiles.

Saudis say #Iran must accept #Assad exit -
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34670774 …

Footage
Terrorism against the civilian population in #Douma today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iaUPkiTekA …
pic.twitter.com/uv1OMoLQ0X

Hama Rebels seized M79 Osa in Sukayk village
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M79_Osa pic.twitter.com/1T17Ao6TVx

Hama Tour in Sukayk village- retaken by rebels yesterday
Tell still under regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-TG4_Iu3_E&feature=youtu.be …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.428575&lon=36.771154&z=14&m=b …
Exclusive: Russia flying Iranian weapons shipments into Syria, sources say | http://fxn.ws/1RCxUE2
pic.twitter.com/XnpPffEpZE

Russian media bingo: just pick the message you prefer. Don't expect them to match or make sense. #RussiaLies
pic.twitter.com/rAdx9RP7PD

[OUTLAW 09]

BREAKING: Arab journalist unveils new Shi'ite terror group launched by Iran to take over power in Gaza armed w/sniper rifles & missiles.

Saudis say #Iran must accept #Assad exit -
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34670774 …

Footage
Terrorism against the civilian population in #Douma today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iaUPkiTekA …
pic.twitter.com/uv1OMoLQ0X

Hama Rebels seized M79 Osa in Sukayk village
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M79_Osa pic.twitter.com/1T17Ao6TVx

Hama Tour in Sukayk village- retaken by rebels yesterday
Tell still under regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-TG4_Iu3_E&feature=youtu.be …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.428575&lon=36.771154&z=14&m=b …
Exclusive: Russia flying Iranian weapons shipments into Syria, sources say | http://fxn.ws/1RCxUE2
pic.twitter.com/XnpPffEpZE

Russian media bingo: just pick the message you prefer. Don't expect them to match or make sense. #RussiaLies
pic.twitter.com/rAdx9RP7PD

Rebels seized "RPO-A Shmel" in Sukayk village
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPO-A_Shmel …
Russian thermobaric RPG

PHOTO: #SAA soldier with a VSK-94 suppressed sniper rifle.

Shells landed near #Russia-n embassy in #Damascus

[Azor]

We all know that Russia intends to preserve Shi'ite power in Latakia, but I am sure that even the Kremlin is aware that Assad's writ will not extend to the rest of Syria even if Russian ground forces join the fray.

It may be that Putin is "cajoling" the Free Syrian Army into accepting Assad's rump state and turning their attention instead to the Islamic State.

Basically, Putin may be offering his support, so long as they agree to leave Assad be. This is a tall order, and the US was unsuccessful in creating Syrian forces focused exclusively on IS; hence the "4 or 5" fighters.

If Putin won the support of the FSyA through the carrot and stick approach, that would be a black eye to Washington and the Gulf Arab states. The FSyA has probably had discussions about whether or not the TOWs are worth the air strikes...

[OUTLAW 09]

Azor--two things in response--the Russian propaganda that they have met with the FSA is false--they met with three individuals who were former Syrian Generals who had fled Syria and are residing in Paris---they have no formal contact nor rep FSA in any official capacity.

Secondly--Russia has forgotten that the FSA has been under 4.5 years of barrel bombing and regular bombing so more Russian dumb bombs is not making an impression--just causing for more civilian deaths but actually military damage has been largely null.

[OUTLAW 09]

Failed #Russia'n airstrikes killed 7 #Hezbollah militia members- fighting for #Assad-regime in #Syria
http://mobile.lebanese-forces.com/2015/10/30/hezbollah-dead-syria-russian-air-raid/ …

Reports from prison outbreak in #Raqqa city (Finance Center)
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.946279&lon=39.011459&z=19&m=b …

Latakia Rebels retaken entire Kafr Dulbah south of #Salma
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.671208&lon=36.159074&z=16&m=b …

[CrowBat]

We all know that Russia intends to preserve Shi'ite power in Latakia...Sorry, but there is no 'Shi'a power' in Lattakia.

Although often described as such, Alawis are no Shi'a. They might have descended from the 12-er branch, but they're none since centuries.


It may be that Putin is "cajoling" the Free Syrian Army into accepting Assad's rump state and turning their attention instead to the Islamic State.Putin is actually manoeuvring to make himself appear more important than he is ever going to be.

Part of that manoeuvre is his siding with Assad's politics of forcing Syrian population that turned against Assad into making choice: Assad or Daesh.


Basically, Putin may be offering his support, so long as they agree to leave Assad be.Putin's media says so. He's actually not doing anything, otherwise there would be TV reports and we could see who are those 'FSyA generals' he supposedly met.


This is a tall order, and the US was unsuccessful in creating Syrian forces focused exclusively on IS...Yes, and the reason is that Syrians know (and much better than the US is ever going to know), that Assad is the core problem, and they can tackle Daesh only after Assad is gone.


If Putin won the support of the FSyA through the carrot and stick approach, that would be a black eye to Washington and the Gulf Arab states.If that's your concern, don't worry: it's never going to happen.


The FSyA has probably had discussions about whether or not the TOWs are worth the air strikes...Certainly not.

[Azor]

The US needs to be more "enthusiastic" in its support of the FSyA is my point. And yes Alawis are not Shias proper, but in Iran's grand strategy they might as well be.

[OUTLAW 09]

The US needs to be more "enthusiastic" in its support of the FSyA is my point. And yes Alawis are not Shias proper, but in Iran's grand strategy they might as well be.

BTW--there have been two recently Iranian issued "fatwas" declaring Assad a "Muslim" thus attempting to create the perception that Assad is Sunni leaning and CB is correct---Alawites are a descending element of the 12er Iman Shia following.

[OUTLAW 09]

Appears the so called Russian "precision targeting" is on capable of hitting town, villages, residential areas basically any civilian that Russia wants to kill wound and or maim.

Breaking
13 #RussianAirStrikes so far this morning on towns and village in besieged #Homs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obcUnZE0V9U …

Also see the boy standing on the house,only able to watch the inferno & cross his fingers next bomb doesn't hit him

[CrowBat]

The US needs to be more "enthusiastic" in its support of the FSyA is my point.The 'problem' Oblabla - and most of US decision-makers - have with the FSyA is of following nature:

Right from the start (read: June-July 2011), original ledership of FSyA (in sense of 'franchise', i.e. a movement to which about 100,000 combatants have pledged alegiance, but which never exercised any kind of coherent control over thousands of groups controlling these combatants) stressed it's non-political and non-religious nature. Even more so, it stressed removal of Assadist regime as its priorities No. 1 - 99.

Furthermore, it stressed that only once Assadist regime would be removed, was political (and religious) future of the country to be decided.

Frankly: they said - and still say - 'we fight Assad until he's gone, then we'll sort out the rest'. That's the very essence of what most of those still fighting under the FSyA flag insist upon until today.

Starting with Turkey (in November 2011), all foreign powers that became involved in supporting insurgency have strictly conditioned their aid on political and religious declarations. Turks said 'Moslem Brotherhood only', Saudis said 'Islamists only', Kuwaitis and Qataris said 'Salafists only' etc. (I'm listing only 'major & official protagonists' to keep it simple). Such meddling caused factionalisation of insurgency and creation of various other 'umbrella' organizations (Islamic Front, Ahrar ash-Sham etc.) in competition to the FSyA, in turn weakening it, and making any kind of large-scale coordinated operations impossible.

Now, contrary to Libyans, genuine Syrian insurgent leaders are aware of their diversity. Contrary to Assadists, who stress 'Assad and Alawis above everybody else', they've grown up in a country with population that's very diverse. They're accustomed to such situation, and accustomed to respect other people's religion and political standpoints. That's why none of them ever attempted to claim for himself to represent all of the insurgency. Those who did so (and there were dozens of them) are exclusively Syrians living in exile since 20+ years, without any kind of political basis inside the country, and very little religious basis too (as seen by actually minimal expansion of such groups like JAN, or even the IF and Ahrar).

This stands in stark contrast to Libya, where there was that provisional council in Benghazi that declared itself for 'in charge of insurgency', was then deftly credited by the West and used as 'invitation point' for NATO intervention - only to become a victim of Turkey/Qatar-supported bribery that caused the civil war.

...add to this that the Western media was fast in catching extremist agendas and in over-reporting these, creating a completely wrong picture of the insurgency as an 'uprising of al-Qaida'. Reason for this is that for the media 'moderates' are 'no story' - regardless if more numerous (though disunited too).

Bottom line was: the West concluded it has 'no allies to support' - although this is obvious hogwash, then otherwise Assadists, IRGC and Hezbollah would've won already years ago (simply because such 'extremists' between insurgents like the JAN are too few and do not enjoy widespread support in the population).

In the case of the USA, the problem was (and remains) even bigger. Namely, whenever USA approach such bodies they expect to hear political and religious declarations - such like 'democracy', 'free elections', blahblahblah - and also the other party to make concessions in US' interest.

In the case of Syria, such concession is either a recognition of Israel, or fight against the Daesh (and, preferrably: both).

While majority of so many different Syrian insurgent leaders (even many of those from the JAN) can at least 'accept' most of other ideas, and make plenty of concessions, nobody there is ready to do something like 'recognize Israel', because that would be his own 'suicide'. Namely, there is no way Syrians might make peace with Israel without Israel returning the Golan Heights.

...and in regards of fighting the Daesh: all of insurgents (bar few vetted groups from Dayr az-Zawr and Raqqa areas, longing to avenge what Daesh did to their tribes), understand the situation 100+ times better than the USA, and therefore see that Assadist regime is the core reason for a) wholesale destruction of Syria, b) death of hundreds of thousands of Syrians, and c) emergence of the Daesh. Therefore, they insist on continuing to fight down that regime before, first and foremost, before tackling the Daesh.

...while Oblabla is taking the Daesh issue out of context and insisting on fighting it only, because he's comparing Assadist regime with that of Saddam, and thinks that Syria would turn into an anarchy if Assad would fall - while ignoring the fact that Assad has alredy destroyed most of the country, de-populated more than 70% of it, and enabled extremists to flourish (on his own side too)... i.e. that Assad has already turned the country into an anarchy...

And thus, there are no common interests between the USA and insurgents, and no serious cooperation is possible either, and this means that there is no way anybody there in the DC can openly show his 'enthusiastic support for the FSyA'.

[OUTLAW 09]

It is still not clear, if #Russia or its ally #Assad bombed the #Douma market today.
45 dead, 200 injured confirmed.

News
Ongoing Russian airstrikes on #Rastan in besieged #Homs province.
Many casualties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiatnAYz9o …

Footage
No #Assad army recapture attempts of #Sukayk in #Idlib province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kavti5ijPiE …

News
Another 4 civilians killed, 10 injured, in #RussianAirStrike on rural #Idlib village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WkWClpnFlg …

See the power (shock wave) of a Russian bomb, dropped on civilians in #Rastan shortly ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxjjnyGMsg …
The screams that follow. Horrendous.

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News
Russian airstrike targets #Aleppo city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgFrjYZJUY …

Footage
Also today, Russian war planes (Su-34) circle over al-Harra, 10 km from #Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHsKc5Jv98M …

Bombs now!
Target is Tel Harra, exactly 12 km away from Israeli settlement Alonei HaBashan & #IDF CP Tel Hazeka.

Footage
Syrian rebels target regime jeep in Al-Qarassi, S of #Aleppo, with the AT-3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ACTHHY7Es …

Aleppo Heavy clashes continues at southern Sheikh Sa'eed front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUU4Ig3V_ZE …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.155964&lon=37.152994&z=16&m=b …

Rebels take out tank in western #Aleppo' Zahra artillery base----TOW hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyKiJTK0ijM …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.212649&lon=37.083020&z=16&m=b …

FSA destroyed tank in #Atashan
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.405982&lon=36.823168&z=14&m=b …

Aleppo Airstrikes on market in al-Bab town killed 7 people & injured dozens

ISIS enters the village of Nafel for 1st. time. It is on the road between al-Safira and Defense Factories!

[OUTLAW 09]

It is still not clear, if #Russia or its ally #Assad bombed the #Douma market today.
45 dead, 200 injured confirmed.

News
Ongoing Russian airstrikes on #Rastan in besieged #Homs province.
Many casualties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiatnAYz9o …

Footage
No #Assad army recapture attempts of #Sukayk in #Idlib province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kavti5ijPiE …

News
Another 4 civilians killed, 10 injured, in #RussianAirStrike on rural #Idlib village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WkWClpnFlg …

See the power (shock wave) of a Russian bomb, dropped on civilians in #Rastan shortly ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxjjnyGMsg …
The screams that follow. Horrendous.

Assad underlines his, #Russia´s and #Iran's insistence to block any peace process by deliberately killing civilians

Fifty killed & 200 injured in deliberate attack by #Syria regime on civilians in #Douma while #ViennaTalks ongoing
http://on.wsj.com/1jWwHx5

[OUTLAW 09]

It is still not clear, if #Russia or its ally #Assad bombed the #Douma market today.
45 dead, 200 injured confirmed.

News
Ongoing Russian airstrikes on #Rastan in besieged #Homs province.
Many casualties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiatnAYz9o …

Footage
No #Assad army recapture attempts of #Sukayk in #Idlib province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kavti5ijPiE …

News
Another 4 civilians killed, 10 injured, in #RussianAirStrike on rural #Idlib village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WkWClpnFlg …

See the power (shock wave) of a Russian bomb, dropped on civilians in #Rastan shortly ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxjjnyGMsg …
The screams that follow. Horrendous.

Its the second terroristic act (by regime) that target this market in 2015
-no accident-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douma_market_massacre_%282015%29 …

BreakingNews
Entire neighbourhood in #Aleppo flattened by missile strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CheuepGkvQ …

Iraq Foreign Minister: #Vienna peace talks for #Syria have failed..

Update Syria civilian deaths in October due to airstrikes (via VDC data)
Russia 242
Syria Air Force 165
US coalition 10

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia'n airstrikes hit Fardous neighborhood near #Aleppo city center in northern #Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgXw0fvTdww …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.186711&lon=37.148831&z=16&m=b …

More #Russia'n airstrikes on mountain fortress "Tell Harra" in southern #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbneP_wOWx0 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.061694&lon=35.988679&z=15&m=b …

Russia'n airstrikes hit #Harra city in southern #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYO0L3FbnoI …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.055796&lon=36.005502&z=15&m=b …

Notice, that NOT only #Russian planes bomb free #Homs province, but also #Assad's Su-22.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ13eRpKUwU …

[OUTLAW 09]

This was the first strike on this market place on 16 August 2015 that was a massacre of civilians and today the second strike against the same market place occurred again conducted either by the Syrian AF and or the RuAF.

AND all the West does is talk and talk and talk....AND the genocide just keeps on occurring and Obama looks away from it--these are is the actions of a "Nobel Peace Prize Winner"?????

After #Assad's slaughter, resistance remains in #Douma #Syria:
http://youtu.be/HYkGRCMPyHM

WAS not the Russian involvement actually to be for the targeting and destruction of the Islamic State NOT the Syrian civil society?

NOW there is a serious question that should be raised and yet DC does not--WHEN does a nation state committing "terrorist acts against unarmed civilians" BECOME a "rouge state".

AND coupled with that question is then if it is a "rouge state" does it have the right to a veto seat on the UNSC??????

[OUTLAW 09]

Does anyone here at SWJ notice the similarity between the current Vienna talks and the Vienna Conference of 1815??????

Putin talks a lot about a new Yalta and has been able to "globalize" what basically was a regional dispute and sets Russia as the chief negotiator and leader of these talks---he is half way to a new Yalta and no one in the West especially Obama sees this coming??

Nothing are going to come out of these talks just as nothing really came out of the constant Normandy Four talks and Minsk 2 agreements as UAF troops are still being killed and or wounded in a renewal of "Russian attacks" during a so called "ceasefire".

BREAKING: Major powers to meet again on #Syria in two weeks: France - @AFP

Superpowers and regional players trying to resolve what basically is an internal Syrian civil society rebellion without them involved is starting to look like "the 1815 imperialist nations" making decisions again just as they did when setting the boundaries of Syria and Iraq.

Some point out there was no need for the rebels to be present as the Syrian government was not present--BUT they were there--the two powers providing troops, aircraft, money and supplies-- Iran and Russia were there.

So why do two major war participants attend yet the rebels have no voice in their own future they have rebelled for in the first place....??

Does that make sense to anyone?????

[OUTLAW 09]

Does anyone here at SWJ notice the similarity between the current Vienna talks and the Vienna Conference of 1815??????

Putin talks a lot about a new Yalta and has been able to "globalize" what basically was a regional dispute and sets Russia as the chief negotiator and leader of these talks---he is half way to a new Yalta and no one in the West especially Obama sees this coming??

Nothing are going to come out of these talks just as nothing really came out of the constant Normandy Four talks and Minsk 2 agreements as UAF troops are still being killed and or wounded in a renewal of "Russian attacks" during a so called "ceasefire".

BREAKING: Major powers to meet again on #Syria in two weeks: France - @AFP

Superpowers and regional players trying to resolve what basically is an internal Syrian civil society rebellion without them involved is starting to look like "the 1815 imperialist nations" making decisions again just as they did when setting the boundaries of Syria and Iraq.

Some point out there was no need for the rebels to be present as the Syrian government was not present--BUT they were there--the two powers providing troops, aircraft, money and supplies-- Iran and Russia were there.

So why do two major war participants attend yet the rebels have no voice in their own future they have rebelled for in the first place....??

Does that make sense to anyone?????

ALL TALK.........

BREAKING: #Vienna statement says participants will seek nationwide ceasefire in #Syria - @AlArabiya_Eng

MORE: Vienna-joint statement from Syria talks says “substantial differences remain” - @AlArabiya_Eng

AS Russia has stated--Assad going is off the table..........

[OUTLAW 09]

Footage
#Rebels still hold #Sukayk.
#Russia still bombs it.
#Assadis still hide nearby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_r5dzZGpG0 …

Documented by Regime sources - Regime fighters (29) killed recently in #Hama battles.

US position is there is no way Assad can unite #Syria - Kerry. - @RT_com
pic.twitter.com/OctTWP1Bm7

BREAKING: Kerry: US, Russia and Iran 'agree to disagree' on Assad - wow. via @AFP
Just how did Obama assume that Iran would 'transform"?????

Now Iran, Russia, US as well as others have “advisors” - more or less - in the fighting in Syria.

[OUTLAW 09]

Assad underlines his, #Russia´s and #Iran's insistence to block any peace process by deliberately killing civilians

Fifty killed & 200 injured in deliberate attack by #Syria regime on civilians in #Douma while #ViennaTalks ongoing
http://on.wsj.com/1jWwHx5

Putin said civilian casualties are unavoidable while bombing #Syria, now #Russia bombs & denies civilian deaths.
pic.twitter.com/2VZcMRH8lk

The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef
As the evening draws in, the count of those killed in Douma, Damascus today has risen to 53.
pic.twitter.com/EPEy1IOL6T

Civilians and Hospitals Repeatedly Attacked as Bombing Escalates in Northern Syria | MSF USA http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/civilians-and-hospitals-repeatedly-attacked-bombing-escalates-northern-syria …

At least 15 killed, tens wounded in a regime strike on al-Firdaus #Aleppo

Syrian war peace process:
Arab L 2011: 5K deaths
Geneva 2012: 60K+
UNGA 2013: 100K+
Geneva ll 2014: 200K+
Vienna 2015: 250K+

[OUTLAW 09]

Publicly stating that US will be putting Special Forces advisors in Syria will make it a tougher decision by Russia to bomb FSA.

.@PressSec says US move to send "less than 50" Special Forces to Syria part of strategy "that has shown promise."

Seems the White House has awaken to the fact that they have the TOW on the ground and the FSA is holding their own against Russia/Syria/Iran/Hezbollah.
pic.twitter.com/zgWHITnZeW

[OUTLAW 09]

Publicly stating that US will be putting Special Forces advisors in Syria will make it a tougher decision by Russia to bomb FSA.

.@PressSec says US move to send "less than 50" Special Forces to Syria part of strategy "that has shown promise."

Seems the White House has awaken to the fact that they have the TOW on the ground and the FSA is holding their own against Russia/Syria/Iran/Hezbollah.
pic.twitter.com/zgWHITnZeW

Syrian state news cites top Russian diplomat: US deployment w/o Damascus' OK "unacceptable."
http://sana.sy/en/?p=59599
pic.twitter.com/p12ElxfdJ6

[OUTLAW 09]

Gen. Breedlove: Intelligence Community Changing How it Handles #Russia, after decades of treating it as an ally
http://defnews.ly/1MmKPpg

[OUTLAW 09]

Assad Colonel Hassan Hassan, brother of Colonel Sohail “The Tiger” has been killed

For those who ask why southern front is not attacking much. That's because Jordan/US warned they'd cut them off if they did...They don't want Rebels to take Deraa or reach Damascus & definitely don't want them taking Sweida

Human rights organization calls for UN to open an investigation on the expired food sent to opposition areas

[OUTLAW 09]

I've heard from reliable ppl who have contacts with Free Syrian Army who said after Russia witnessed first hand how Assad army fight...not only were they appalled but realised that supporting Assad army is like flogging a dead horse & have reached out to FSA this is linked to the talks where Russia wants to persuade all sides that Assad can remain for at least another 6 months they want to also convince FSA to break away from the rest of the opposition in order to create an internal fracture this article touches on this. How Russia how wants to meet with FSA. After bombing them by the way...

http://syrianobserver.com/EN/News/30046/FSA_Says_Russia_Reached_Out_To_Syria_Armed_Opposit ion/ …

The russians were teed off about JaF on the gates of #Latakia /#Hama , &now after massive offense losing & failing,frustrated.

The way opposition pulled that off is having every set & faction unite & they know that

[OUTLAW 09]

I've heard from reliable ppl who have contacts with Free Syrian Army who said after Russia witnessed first hand how Assad army fight...not only were they appalled but realised that supporting Assad army is like flogging a dead horse & have reached out to FSA this is linked to the talks where Russia wants to persuade all sides that Assad can remain for at least another 6 months they want to also convince FSA to break away from the rest of the opposition in order to create an internal fracture this article touches on this. How Russia how wants to meet with FSA. After bombing them by the way...

http://syrianobserver.com/EN/News/30046/FSA_Says_Russia_Reached_Out_To_Syria_Armed_Opposit ion/ …

The russians were teed off about JaF on the gates of #Latakia /#Hama , &now after massive offense losing & failing,frustrated.

The way opposition pulled that off is having every set & faction unite & they know that

Crow Bat--what do you think of the article???

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian cluster munition rockets targeted Madayah small village north #Hama y'day.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.472973&lon=36.576276&z=15&m=b …

[OUTLAW 09]

Iran DepFM Amirabdolahian: "as a result of our efforts, they agreed to not include a time table for departure of Assad in final statement."

Naturally the Iranians would do this...nothing new here from them...since they keep hoping for a battlefield win from IRGC and Hezbollah.....

[OUTLAW 09]

28 people were killed by Russian air strikes in Aleppo today. Among them 18 children. #Syria
Their names:
http://fb.me/4RN7rW8Y2

Aftermath of Russian air strikes in Talbiseh, Homs. #Syria
http://youtu.be/LCkufIWN8AA
http://youtu.be/DoKAhKusYd0

7 civilians including four children were killed by Russian air strikes in Maarat al-Nouman. #Idlib #Syria
http://youtu.be/KiKAy-mj3kQ

Death toll in Douma after the regime bombed a market is now over 60.

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Bunch of non-Syrian leaders trying to decide how to continue imposing Assad on Syrians.

Kerry: what's make these negotiations diff are all parties involved are present.
Ummm except Syrians.

And what makes them the same as all previous attempts is that killing of civilians has not been stopped. Won't succeed until then.

Two points that make me laugh: nationwide ceasefire & elections. The main reasons why these talks will fail.

Sound like the Vienna Conference of 1815......?????

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Rebels blow up T-72 tank at #Aleppo's SE al-Humairah front
TOW hit.......
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.965538&lon=37.507067&z=15&m=b …

Aleppo: another Iranian revo guard killed. Meanwhile Assad regime is like "we captured 80 square km in Aleppo"

Regime controlled areas of #Aleppo without electricity. Severe water/food/fuel shortages due to cut supply-lines

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Since Putin stated during a press conference and in front of the public prior to his UN visit that anyone carrying an AK47 and fighting against Assad is a "terrorist" just exactly how is the "ceasefire" to be achieved when the Russian FM states this at 23:16 via the Russian Interfax today......


October 30, 2015 23:16

Terrorist groups won't be eligible for ceasefire agreement in Syria - Lavrov

VIENNA. Oct 30 (Interfax) - A ceasefire agreement in Syria will not be applicable to terrorists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"We discussed a ceasefire along with a political process, and a consensus was reached that a ceasefire must be worked out in consultations with the UN and with the understanding that, if a ceasefire is declared, not a single terrorist group will be eligible for this agreement," Lavrov said at a press conference following a multilateral talks on Syria in Vienna on Friday.

So exactly who is Russia/Iran and Hezbollah suppose to do a "ceasefire with"??????

We are now seeing the exact same Ukrainian process being replicated now in Syria--and there is no connection........???

It will be like a Ukrainian truce where Russia can launch offensives whenever they want and blame the other side for breaking it--which they will.

BTW--all the major anti Assad forces have basically rejected any UN deals in the past.......as they left Assad in power.

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Since Putin stated during a press conference and in front of the public prior to his UN visit that anyone carrying an AK47 and fighting against Assad is a "terrorist" just exactly how is the "ceasefire" to be achieved when the Russian FM states this at 23:16 via the Russian Interfax today......


So exactly who is Russia/Iran and Hezbollah suppose to do a "ceasefire with"??????

We are now seeing the exact same Ukrainian process being replicated now in Syria--and there is no connection........???

It will be like a Ukrainian truce where Russia can launch offensives whenever they want and blame the other side for breaking it--which they will.

BTW--all the major anti Assad forces have basically rejected any UN deals in the past.......as they left Assad in power.

WHEN a nation state supports the genocidal campaign of a dictator are they not actually "terrorists" themselves??????

These are the same exact demands made by Russia in eastern Ukraine and there is no connection.....?

Interfax from today
10/30 22:49 Political process in Syria should result in setting up inclusive body to prepare constitution, hold elections - Lavrov

10/30 21:59 Lavrov: Obama's decision to send task force to Syria hasn't changed Russia's position on legitimately opposing terrorism

AND Russia is not supporting a proxy war.......? Current offensive is a Russian/Iranian/Hezbollah combined offensive--that is not a proxy war.

20:55 LAVROV ON OBAMA'S DECISION TO SEND TASK FORCE TO SYRIA: I DON'T THINK U.S. WANT CONFLICT IN SYRIA TO TURN INTO PROXY WAR

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NATO Chief: Russia In Syria To Take Eyes Off Ukraine -
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
http://tinyurl.com/p3abab3

Quite some numbers. Might also point out Kartapolov is the man who held the Russian MoD MH17 briefings...
pic.twitter.com/mdyOVZcXvP

Минобороны России ‏@mod_russia ·
#SYRIA #Kartapolov: This month Russian air group performed 1391 combat sorties engaging 1623 terrorists' objects

Kartapolov Russian aircraft destroyed
249 command and communication centres;
51 terrorist training camps;
35 ED plants and workshops

Kartapolov Russian aircraft destroyed
131 ammo depots;
371 strong points & fortified positions;
786 field camps and different bases

THEN WHY is the ground offensive totally failing???????

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RuAF main target in Al Harra was Tall Ahmar. 1 bomb missed the target by +-300m :s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZvyDTyhdD0 …

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From yesterday.......

Breaking
Reports #Israel aircraft attacked #SAA and #Hezbollah mercenaries positions in the western #Qalamon, 16 airstrikes so far

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Damascus Douma market massacres carried out by regime
August 16, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrB70SgCcM …
& yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bPNEUGmRL4 …

Syrian doctor makes passionate plea to Assad to stop targeting hospitals and health workers: http://bit.ly/1jXlpsl

174 people killed at Friday- among them 40! children.
75 dead in #Aleppo & 70 in #Damascus suburbs

Die-in protest to defend doctors in Syria staged in New York. http://dld.bz/dYHUX

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NOTICE just how Russian info warfare is handling Syria........

British right-wing tabloid sets new standard in pro-Putin propaganda bs.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/615466/Vladimir-Putin-refugee-crisis-Islamic-State-ISIS-Syria-Bashar-Assad …

Guess where that story originated from... Sputnik citing Assad gov officials

I have often commented here on just how the western MSM works often more together with Russian info warriors than against them...ever wonder why????

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Damascus Douma market massacres carried out by regime
August 16, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrB70SgCcM …
& yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bPNEUGmRL4 …

Syrian doctor makes passionate plea to Assad to stop targeting hospitals and health workers: http://bit.ly/1jXlpsl

174 people killed at Friday- among them 40! children.
75 dead in #Aleppo & 70 in #Damascus suburbs

Die-in protest to defend doctors in Syria staged in New York. http://dld.bz/dYHUX

RuAF attack on Kallaseh district #Aleppo killed 20 people y'day.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.192824&lon=37.147522&z=16&m=b …
https://youtu.be/7BrMoX8y1yg

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5 #Russia'n airstrikes hit ICARDA-area at highway #Hama - #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.016476&lon=36.940155&z=13&m=b
…
Heavy clashes at southern #Aleppo ring highway continues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xZJefm4idE …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.159308&lon=37.142694&z=16&m=b …

Rebels retake Maryamayn in southern #Aleppo after lost this morning
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.983875&lon=37.122588&z=15&m=b …

Regime-forces backed by Shiite militias take these 2 villages in southern countryside of #Aleppo http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.992244&lon=37.109971&z=15&m=b …

Heavy clashes at southern #Aleppo ring highway continues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xZJefm4idE …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.159308&lon=37.142694&z=16&m=b …

Latakia Ahrar al Sham claim killed 15 #Assad-forces with mine in Jubb al-Ahmar area
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.673474&lon=36.234798&z=14&m=b …

Hama Cluster bombs hit Tall Maraq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbvB1OCxZAw …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.439694&lon=36.840334&z=15&m=b …

Footage
MLRS attack on a village in rural #Idlib last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbvB1OCxZAw …

Footage
Western #Damascus this morning (#Daraya).
The #Assad air forces destroys the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9qWLQWOG0 …

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Chemical attack has not been confirmed.......

Reports of a chemical attack coming from Talbiseh, recently targeted by Russian air strikes
https://www.youtube.com/user/talbisah/videos …

Footage
The #Talbiseh field hospital is crowded w/ victims of an #Assad/#Putin #GasAttack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNOaU5PMJrk …

Footage
A neighbourhood in #Aleppo city, destroyed by a "Russian" air strike yday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnabkhbPwcQ …

No wounds ...
Several dead after a #gas attack on #Talbiseh as the #Russian/#Assad offensive enters the 2nd month.

BreakingNews
Thick smoke and more cases of suffocation in #Talbiseh, #Homs province.
#gas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix4XZoAp-M …

BreakingReport
#Assad/#Putin forces used #gas for the 1 x in the combined #Homs offensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Nk1Wcq1qg …

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Unconfirmed....the Russia aircraft had a history of technical problems prior to this flight, but it appeared also to be an engine issue that does not rule out a SAM hit.

Will wait to see how this plays out..........

Video claim shot down #Russia' passenger plane above #Egypt #Sinai today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYvZ0u6vqQY …
Fake? or not?

IS has been operating in the area......configuration of the aircraft does appear to be an Airbus 320 series---might have in fact been returning due to an emergency call by the pilot and then hit by a SAM????

Sinai: don't want to speculate to much but Ansar Bait al-Maqdis DOES have manpads.
https://youtu.be/QWztP6rDges

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Civilian death count by Russian air strikes.............

SHRN #NGO claim #Russia killed so far 254 civilians in #Syria, including 83 children & 42 women by airstrikes

Damascus suburb #Douma yesterday after airstrikes on market with 60 dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyJI_FRA8Hc …

The White Helmets ‏@SyriaCivilDef · 3h3 hours ago
The death toll from yesterday's heinous market bombing in Douma has risen to 71. Names attached Mr Putin.

A #Russian airstrike on a hospital in Menbij in Aleppo countryside killed more than 50 people, including the doctors and the staff.

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Assad soldier Mohammad Fawaz Jam'a from tartous killed in battles

Clashes renew between #FSA & #IS at Dalha & Harjala near the #Turkey - #Syria border, #US launches airstrikes on IS positions

Syria: for the first time #FSA rebels and #Sanadid fighters will be fighting together, #SDF has made them allies

goal of the #SDF offensive is to capture al-Hawl, Shaddadi and Markabah, completely freeing South #Hasakah

BREAKING: the #SDF announces the start of a offensive again #IS in southern #Hasakah
https://youtu.be/QEaSaJyp8-s

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Civilian death count by Russian air strikes.............

SHRN #NGO claim #Russia killed so far 254 civilians in #Syria, including 83 children & 42 women by airstrikes

Damascus suburb #Douma yesterday after airstrikes on market with 60 dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyJI_FRA8Hc …

The White Helmets ‏@SyriaCivilDef · 3h3 hours ago
The death toll from yesterday's heinous market bombing in Douma has risen to 71. Names attached Mr Putin.

Russian airstrikes destroyed @sams_usa medical point in southern #Aleppo adding to the suffering & displacement

In English..........
Report about a massacre of #Douma /#Damascus city committed by #Assad regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfEnEu-jNfo …

Syria: the regime bombarded eastern #Ghouta today, killing at least 10 civilians
https://youtu.be/Xn7_SjmOn8s

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Count of ATGM videos from Syria via @yarinah1
May 67
Jun 58
Jul 42
Aug 37
Sep 22
Oct 139
http://justpaste.it/OctoberATGM

Yemen TOW ATGMs delivered to Saudi backed fighters. Part of 15.000 ATGMs contract ?
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/12/12/why-is-saudi-arabia-buying-15000-u-s-anti-tank-missiles-for-a-war-it-will-never-fight/ … https://twitter.com/AlHadath/status/660440316831371266 …

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Aleppo Rebels advance in Al-Qarassi area
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.091280&lon=37.088299&z=15&m=b …

Aleppo Rebels retake Al-Qarassi & nearby Tell
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.092442&lon=37.082398&z=15&m=b …

Rebels destroyed T-72 tank with TOW in Humera south of #Aleppo

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Russian airstrikes destroyed @sams_usa medical point in southern #Aleppo adding to the suffering & displacement

In English..........
Report about a massacre of #Douma /#Damascus city committed by #Assad regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfEnEu-jNfo …

Syria: the regime bombarded eastern #Ghouta today, killing at least 10 civilians
https://youtu.be/Xn7_SjmOn8s

Deadly air strikes Daraa province. 7 killed in the town of Nemr & 4 killed in Jasim.
http://daraamartyrs.org/news/DarMLId=5567 …
pic.twitter.com/1kNmjvZYU1

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Deadly air strikes Daraa province. 7 killed in the town of Nemr & 4 killed in Jasim.
http://daraamartyrs.org/news/DarMLId=5567 …
pic.twitter.com/1kNmjvZYU1

The White Helmets ‏@SyriaCivilDef ·
31/10: No reprieve in Douma in spite of #viennatalks. 15 attacks already today. Get sense of intensity from this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=kaiX665X1pQ …

Continued bombardment of #Douma: northern #Damascus suburbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhMIc7VFeMM …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb-Ud6b7N54 …

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Rebels shelling regime positions in al-Maghiyar and Tall Othamn north Hama.
https://youtu.be/VKWX1hb6gtk

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Flyers dropped by Syrian warplanes in western Syria asking people to drop arms and fix their legal status.

The White Helmets ‏@SyriaCivilDef · 1h1 hour ago
Eastern Aleppo countryside subjected to intense aerial bombardment today. 31/10. More than 75 strikes reported.

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Jabhat al-Nusra troops advance to al-Waddihi southern #Aleppo.

Aleppo Rebels killed 2 dozens #Assad-forces btw Al Jumaymah, Al-Hadher & Shughaydilah
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.999466&lon=37.085037&z=14&m=b …

Russia'n warplane attack gathering of the "free tribes" of southern #Syria (backed by #Jordan to fight ag. #IS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAp08veS0CU …

Aleppo: Syrian Rebels repel Assad regime attack on Al Hadir village & kill more than 20 regime fighters

Syrian Rebels destroy Assad regime 23 cannon in Hama
Syrian Rebels in Aleppo destroy regime Shilka
http://fb.me/264c3eatW

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Extremely interesting if true........

Saudi Foreign Minister al-Jubeir: #Iran & #Russia agreed to set a date for departure of #Assad & withdrawal of foreign forces from #Syria

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Unconfirmed....the Russia aircraft had a history of technical problems prior to this flight, but it appeared also to be an engine issue that does not rule out a SAM hit.

Will wait to see how this plays out..........

Video claim shot down #Russia' passenger plane above #Egypt #Sinai today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYvZ0u6vqQY …
Fake? or not?

IS has been operating in the area......configuration of the aircraft does appear to be an Airbus 320 series---might have in fact been returning due to an emergency call by the pilot and then hit by a SAM????

Sinai: don't want to speculate to much but Ansar Bait al-Maqdis DOES have manpads.
https://youtu.be/QWztP6rDges

Interesting if true as it appears the Airbus had engine issues and that would not have caused it to brake up in mid air........the IS video did show the aircraft training smoke from the engines

If news that #7K9268 bodies are found up to a 5km radius, then almost certain aircraft broke up in the air. RIP to the dead.

Russian pilots didn't let #Egypt air traf. controller know on emergencies, didn't ask for landing #7K9268 #Airbus321
pic.twitter.com/wdp7NmIv64

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Aleppo Rebels captured 2 #Iraq'i Shiite militia members in Al-Qarassi area http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.091575&lon=37.093835&z=15&m=b …

Nusra take over Tel Huwayz in southern #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.088540&lon=37.095144&z=16&m=b
…

Aleppo: Syrian rebel alliance retake al qarissa with more than 50 Assad regime elements trapped

South #Aleppo Updates:
- Jumaima & Mraymin villages fell to Regime forces.
- Qarrassi & al-Huwayz villages fell to Rebel forces.

Step News Agency: Rebels liberated Qarasi & Tal Jamiyeh in southern Aleppo after battles with regime forces & their foreign allies.

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Russian sealift Syrian Express just keeps on going..........

Midnight #SyriaExpress : #ВМФ NF's Ropucha class LST Alexander Otrakovsky 031 transits northbound Bosphorus
pic.twitter.com/jSUudNdTkk

SyriaExpress becomes a day&night event. Landing ship Alexander Otrakovski 031 transits northbound Bosphorus #ВМФ

A.Otrakovsky 031 and Korolev 130 made a night pass on the strait. Low light but numbers seen.

northbound. They cannot enter straits at night. But 2 straits count as 1. So these guys entered this morning from Dardanelles

they're free to complete the pass whatever the time. But never allowed from North at night.

Early today commercial RORO ship Alexandr Tkachenko crossed bosphorus
southbound Military looking equipment on board

Tkachenko, like previous passes, seems to carry trucks, trailers & a lot of containers

More close-ups of A.Tkachenko from the pass this morning Civilian ships are for non-weapon/ammo cargo

Alexandr Tkachenko,an ageing ferry,usually sails across the Kerch Strait,is en route to Tartus with Russian trucks

SyriaExpress on the Bosphorus. Civilian merchant RO-RO loaded with Russian ‘URAL’ trucks and mobile units ?

Russian soldiers on the merchant RO-RO Alexander Tkachenko looking at the Bosphorus en route to #Tartus #Syria

Russian flag Alexander Tkachenko transits Bosphorus. RO-RO loaded military cargo at Novorossiysk harbor 3 days ago

Transfair’s gap in Transponder Data is similar to other merchant #SyriaExpress vessels carrying Dual Purpose cargo

In the USSR, Oktyabrsk was a top-secret naval installation, a key part of the military supply chain for the USSR&its allies around the world

Panama flag Transfair was last in Tartus on OCT15. Cargo ship left Oktyabrsk on OCT28 and kept AIS turned off

Transfair transits southbound Bosphorus. Cargo ship comes from Oktyabrsk, source of many weapons reaching to Syria

Midnight #SyriaExpress ! NF Yauza completes the cargo vessel’s first deployment to Tartus & returns to the Black Sea

ВМФ Amguema class cargo ship, NF Yauza returns from #Tartus #Syria exactly in 2 weeks time

ВМФ Amguema class cargo ship, NF’s Yauza completes an exceptional late-night northbound Bosphorus transit 20:15GMT

Amguema class Yauza passes next to Zanzibar registered cargo vessel Italia en route Volos in the mid-Bosphorus

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SYRIA: At least 64 killed, including 28 children following #Russia air raids in #Aleppo in past 24 hours - Reuters

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SAA with BTR-82A (?) near #Palmyra
or old BTR with new turret-cannon

BTR-82 has a 14.5-mm, KPVT, this is a clear BTR-82A (BTR-80A has a different turret:
http://www.zavodkorpusov.ru/data/objects/15/BashnyaBTR80A.jpg …)

Nusra take over Al-Huwayz village south of #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.092962&lon=37.099671&z=16&m=b …

Islamicstate Detonated TWO Car Bombs @ #Mheen west of #Quaryatayn tonight.

Aamaq News: #IS fighters seize control of Maheen town in #Homs suburbs

After #IslamicState advance 2 Mahin/Sadad Regime have now only a corridor of 20km btw #Homs/coast -

As a response after Regime's offensive toward Kuwayris Airbase; ISIS trying to cut Regime supply routes.

ISIS were able to cut the Rd between #Hama / #Aleppo near Ithriya, and advancing toward #Damascus / #Homs Rd after capturing Mahin today.

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Assad's barrel bomb terror in #Jasim (#Daraa province) today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYuHh1VIEI …

Air strikes on #Douma on October 31, one day #after the #MarketMassacre with 71 deaths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fPvxbOpJWI …

Four air strikes were used to destroy the medical facility.
Seems #Putin (like #Assad) is doing everything to bomb #FreeSyria uninhabitably.

Russian jets destroyed the «National Pharmaceutical» plant in #Aleppo's Khan al-Asal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe1z_uJ8KWQ …

Footage
Different from #Putin & #Assad, the #FSA keeps fighting #ISIS (N of #Aleppo).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trHA_jB5BI4 …

Having been "defeated" by #Russia's airstrikes, #ISIS has just captured the strategic town of Mahin in #Homs from the #Syria Army.

Footage
Ahrar al-Sham tries to stop #Assad forces from entering Al-Hadher, S of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o88wZDtAgGE …

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Extremely interesting if true........

Saudi Foreign Minister al-Jubeir: #Iran & #Russia agreed to set a date for departure of #Assad & withdrawal of foreign forces from #Syria

Saudi FM: "our disagreement with Russians is on how and when Assad will step down".

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Assad army militants killed in southern #Aleppo clashes. Mostly shiite militants of IRGC according to local activists

Jabhat al-Nusra confirm al-Qarrasi and al-Huwayz retaken. No confirmation on Shughaydilah.
http://sendvid.com/6eoduyn2

Jabhat al-Nusra seized Assad army Shilka in southern #Aleppo.

Jabhat al-Nusra tanks literally chasing Assad militia fleeing troops southern #Aleppo y'day.
http://sendvid.com/0khln5bm

Assad and Iran militants fleeing their positions in southern #Aleppo villages under heavy Jabhat al-Nusra fire.

Regime army shelling northern #Hama villages with artillery y'day.
http://youtu.be/1vTaXNdC1xY

Jabhat al-Nusra drone footage of southern #Aleppo battlefield y'day.
http://sendvid.com/vl4s7ckh

Rebels negotiate surrender of an Assad army Iraqi militant in al-Hadir #Aleppo.
http://youtu.be/En7QoH1p0sE

Unconfirmed: Rebels re-captured Shughaydilah, al-Huwayz, al-Qarrasi, Tall al-Waddihi & few positions outside al-Hadher in southern #Aleppo

IslamicState announce entire control of Mahin & Hawarini ~40km SE of #Homs city, also nearby weapon stores
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.237351&lon=37.055340&z=13&m=b …

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For the first time in #Syria, islamist rebels accept moderates' attitude and moderates give full arms support to islamists.

Of course, this could and probably will change after the common enemy is gone.
But for now, they are more united & thus stronger than ever.

Plus the #FSA, which's TOW missiles paved the way for moderate and extremist islamist rebel forces by destroying most tanks.

Footage
Also a more moderate rebel coalition participates in the battle South of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrSCJla1Jc …

Footage
The #FSA in the battle for the Southern #Aleppo countryside.
W/less troops though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUri8-GDMrY …

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Saudi FM: "our disagreement with Russians is on how and when Assad will step down".

Well now we know that Putin and Khamenei both are striving to save Assad--the anti Assad forces and even IS will never agree to elections while Assad is in power especially since they control roughly 70% of the physical country and represent the 70% Sunni majority.

BREAKING: #Iran’s supreme leader #Khamenei says #Syrian crisis must be resolved by elections - Press TV

Where was the so called "Supreme Leader" in Syria in 2008???? Actually supporting Assad.....

Assad repressing pro-democracy activists, in 2008, with torture and imprisonment.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/MDE24/024/2008/en/ …

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Footage
@SyriaCivilDef awareness campaign in "terrorist-held" #Latakia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuAea1-S0Xw …

Footage
The #FSA tries to hold "Hezbollah and Iranian troops" advance in #Latakia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CV2IbtNO0 …

A Russian VODKA moment from their info warriors..........
RUS MoD TV channel Zvezda: 'Thousands of #ISIS militants arrived in #Odessa - expert'

Footage
#Russia starts November where it ended October.
With bombing #Douma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GIn-Nkh8LY …

Syria: result of 1 month of #Russia|n airstrikes "against #IS";
-#IS advances in #Homs
-#Assad regime incapable (or unwilling) to stop it

#ISIS were able to cut the Rd between #Hama / #Aleppo near Ithriya, and advancing toward #Damascus / #Homs Rd after capturing Mahin today.

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"Stop the use of heavy explosive weapons in populated areas"--Ban Ki-moon & @ICRC president.
http://bit.ly/1MoTRCe
pic.twitter.com/pdQJvsDrRc

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Interesting social media comment concerning the US and the Syrian opposition.........from 2011 onwards......

On #Syria: I take issue with Americans who naively say “but America isn’t the world’s police, we saw how that worked out elsewhere!”...

1. Obama said Assad must go in mid Aug 2011 (even b4 Saudi), setting an avalanche of such calls.

2. U.S Diplomats in Syria, oh boy! ..

Still in point 2: Amb Ford & other western Ambassadors were actively supporting demonstrators, even attending demos.
http://www.france24.com/en/20110709-hama-protests-bolstered-visits-usa-france-ambassadors-ford-chevallier-syria-assad …

Jul 8, 2011: Amb. Ford arriving in Hama.. ahead of one of the largest demonstrations ever held in modern Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNIk_bRweH4 …
http://www.france24.com/en/20110709-hama-protests-bolstered-visits-usa-france-ambassadors-ford-chevallier-syria-assad …

Since the 1st days: Amb Ford ws prvtly mtng Oppo & even iffy Assad officials who later defected 2encourage more. Saying the US is 100%

For those who have been following me since 2011..u know I know what I am talking about. Especially with the defections.

The U.S actively -A.C.T.I.V.E.L.Y- misled Syrians even before any Arab nation, that they are with us all the way & encouraged us 2 go on

usually, first thing top diplomats say when u meet them is: "forget the public statements, those are for the public "

At the same time, of course, top US officials were also saying stuff like this: http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2012/09/barack-obama-courtship-of-bashar-al_4519.html …

The US did not msilead Syrian oppo. Syrian opposition misled the US on the balance of forces in the country & on Assad's support.

yes it did. And even for the sake of argument: let's say we lied, U.S. has a lot of resources/agencies to verify our claims.

Closing rant: U.S did spend most $ thn any1 else on humanitarian aid on Syria…but thts it, they knew what ws gonna hppn & they left us 2 rot

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Well now we know that Putin and Khamenei both are striving to save Assad--the anti Assad forces and even IS will never agree to elections while Assad is in power especially since they control roughly 70% of the physical country and represent the 70% Sunni majority.

BREAKING: #Iran’s supreme leader #Khamenei says #Syrian crisis must be resolved by elections - Press TV

Where was the so called "Supreme Leader" in Syria in 2008???? Actually supporting Assad.....

Assad repressing pro-democracy activists, in 2008, with torture and imprisonment.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/MDE24/024/2008/en/ …

Iran's pro-democracy agenda in the region, in Syria & Iraq assisted by democratic, secular non-takfirist militias.

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Russia sent its version of Delta Force to #Syria
http://read.bi/1Lx9TN0
@BI_Defense after @WSJ
But I said it 1st: https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/russians-in-syria-zaslon-and-the-risks-of-going-native/ …

PS to last, #Russia's #Zaslon spec ops force not really like Delta Force - closer to CIA's Special Activities Div or JSOC's 'The Activity'

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News
The #FSA in #Daraa got new D-30 pieces, shell regime positions near As Sanamayn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7CXMisdJoA … pic.twitter.com/S9KI7WGotQ

Also in besieged #Nubl and #Zahraa, rebels shelled civilians "in response to the massacres"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKV5bbEXMsU … pic.twitter.com/HvtAMpwxvQ

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Footage
Iraqi Kata'ib Hezbollah with T-72A tanks just south of #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEGRskRUYsM …

Pro-#Assad/s / #Putin/s call it "propaganda" when rebels say, almost all troops they kill are foreigners...
#Aleppo

2 days after Sukayk captured, rebels discovered a group of regime soldiers hiding in a car.
https://youtu.be/sizjlp_zxSM

FSA Soqur al-Ghab destroy regime army tank & the water tanker came to put out the fire with 9K111 Fagot ATGMs in northern #Hama.

Unconfirmed reports regime army backed by RuAF took Hamidah and Dadin small village southern #Aleppo today.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.953588&lon=37.090445&z=15&m=b …
Hezbollah killed in Syria
http://fb.me/6VV2Mj90E

Aleppo: the 6 villages Assad supporters were claiming to have been taken yesterday have been retaken by rebels including Huwayz+al-Waddihi.

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Unconfirmed.........
Assad regime bomb north of Homs with toxic gas after failing to storm | Eldorar Alshamia
http://en.eldorar.com/node/532

Footage
Barrel bomb hits #Inkhil in #Daraa province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz2yU8vcjMc …

Footage
Surviving children learn and play at the same schools, #Assad/#Putin bombed before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_NI7Sm7qI …

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Hama Rebels destroyed tanks at regime barrier in Ghab plain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTS2YDrJcY&feature=youtu.be …

Aleppo Clashes btw Rebels & IS on road Mare city to Herel village
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.455946&lon=37.185459&z=13&m=b …

Last night....
Israel'i airstrikes on the huge #SAA SCUD-missiles-brigade 155 base near #Damascus /#Syria tonight http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.686639&lon=36.503277&z=13&m=b …

Syria NDF fighter with a newly delivered RPO-A Shmel thermobaric rocket, southern Aleppo.

This was fast, Jabhat al-Nusra capture the sophisticated 106mm RR Iranian armed jeep in southern #Aleppo.

Footage
A regime tank gets destroyed by the #FSA's TOW in Al-Waddihi (S of #Aleppo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddcyoZVe_U …

Footage
The #FSA destroys an #Assad regime ZSU-23-4 in Al-Waddihi (#Aleppo) with the TOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5LB3YYDR0 …

Footage
Russian Orlan-10 drone over #Douma, shortly before an airstrike today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UUokIwMwC4 …

Analysis #Map
#FSA mortar fire from #Hawar_Killis vs. #ISIS-held #Dalhah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFLNqk-ssBc …

Footage
The #FSA fights #ISIS north of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9pt7dXUu1g …

Breaking
Heavy Russian airstrikes on villages, recaptured by rebels S of #Aleppo today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWF65SulLX0 …

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Hama Rebels destroyed tanks at regime barrier in Ghab plain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTS2YDrJcY&feature=youtu.be …

Aleppo Clashes btw Rebels & IS on road Mare city to Herel village
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.455946&lon=37.185459&z=13&m=b …

Last night....
Israel'i airstrikes on the huge #SAA SCUD-missiles-brigade 155 base near #Damascus /#Syria tonight http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.686639&lon=36.503277&z=13&m=b …

Syria NDF fighter with a newly delivered RPO-A Shmel thermobaric rocket, southern Aleppo.

This was fast, Jabhat al-Nusra capture the sophisticated 106mm RR Iranian armed jeep in southern #Aleppo.

Footage
A regime tank gets destroyed by the #FSA's TOW in Al-Waddihi (S of #Aleppo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddcyoZVe_U …

Footage
The #FSA destroys an #Assad regime ZSU-23-4 in Al-Waddihi (#Aleppo) with the TOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5LB3YYDR0 …

Footage
Russian Orlan-10 drone over #Douma, shortly before an airstrike today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UUokIwMwC4 …

Analysis #Map
#FSA mortar fire from #Hawar_Killis vs. #ISIS-held #Dalhah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFLNqk-ssBc …

Footage
The #FSA fights #ISIS north of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9pt7dXUu1g …

Breaking
Heavy Russian airstrikes on villages, recaptured by rebels S of #Aleppo today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWF65SulLX0 …

BREAKING: #Israel carries out airstrike on #Syrian regime base in Qalamoun destroying three warehousing, one containing Scuds - @i24news_EN

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VIDEO: Opposition forces in #Syria fire mortar at #ISIS in Herbel village, #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwtwgoXNGA …

AND Russia and Assad just keep on shelling and bombing civilinas...much as Russia did and still does in eastern Ukraine.....

VIDEO: @SyriaCivilDef frantically search for wounded as shells rain down on #Douma - @sakirkhader

Muhammad injured in today's #Russia|n air strike on Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān while he was buying bread for his family.

Not confirmed......
Almost entire 70 armored vehicles for #Syria army / #PKK thugs convoy wiped in 5-tons #ISIS VBIED attack in #Hasakah

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Assad regime is 11km away from Kuweires & can't push forward an inch instead they bomb Rebels & ISIS closes in on Assads supply lines

Aleppo #IslamicState take over Tel Ta'anah south of Industrial city from #Assad-forces
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.245485&lon=37.307553&z=15&m=b …

Seems no interest by #Assad-regime & #Russia to regain the Christian towns of Mahin & Al Qaryatayn SE of #Homs from #IslamicState

Latakia Rebels in Ghumam village have now a nice TOW spot overlooking M4 highway http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.674450&lon=36.008377&z=14&m=b … …

Latakia Rebels taken over Ghumam village at Mashqita Lake- killed 15 #Assad-forces http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.674450&lon=36.008377&z=14&m=b …

Aleppo Rebels shelling #IslamicState in Harbul town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwtwgoXNGA&feature=youtu.be …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.433368&lon=37.170610&z=14&m=b …

Aleppo Rebels destroyed tank & Shilka near Al-Waddihi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddcyoZVe_U&feature=youtu.be …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5LB3YYDR0&feature=youtu.be …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.094956&lon=37.124949&z=15&m=b …

Russia'n warplanes bomb rebel hold villages of #Hadir #Eis #Zitan #Zirba #Tal_Hida & #Kamari south of #Aleppo

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Footage
Kata'ib Hezbollah launches missiles "vs. #ISIS" near #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vyzjp7wVk …

Another Russia direct air strike on a Syrian hospital......
A #Russia'n airstrike has destroyed the hospital of al-Eis village in southern #Aleppo

Russia says #Assad Stopped Using #BarrelBombs. 1st step 2 needed #NoFlyZone & #ceasefire #syria
http://en.etilaf.org/all-news/political-news/russia-assad-stopped-using-barrel-bombs.html … via @SyrCoalition

20 barrel bombs hit Daraya one day after Russia says regime stopped using them.

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su-24's have been relocated at the #ruaf #latakia #syria airbase. Now closer to runway... Reducing takeoff time
pic.twitter.com/3xP3LadPFT

Parts of Tochka-U in Syria. Russian militants accusing Ukraine in usage of this weapons every week
https://twitter.com/lummideast/status/661230905499983873 …

Syria Clashes btw #Assad-forces & Jaish al Islam in Nawlah & Shamiah area
6 km north of #Damascus Int. airport
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.465853&lon=36.475468&z=15&m=b …

Qalamoun: formation of new FSA unit
http://fb.me/3MAs85bUC

2 Assad regime tanks disabled beyond use in Burj in Deir Salman

Aleppo: Syrian Rebels destroy Shilka & BMP & kill dozens of Assad forces in Al Hadhir

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http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/02/putins-muslim-nightmare-syria-assad-iran/?utm_content=bufferc1d5d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Russian president’s intervention in Syria is driven by fear of Islamic extremism among his country’s own Muslim minority. But rather than squelching the threat, it’s poised to make it worse.

By Marvin Kalb
November 2, 2015


Putin’s Muslim Nightmare


President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s most notorious gambler, has rolled the dice in Syria’s civil war. At first glance, he seems to have come up with a seven: By boldly deploying the newest weapons in his arsenal in order to save Bashar al-Assad’s tottering regime, he has swiftly transformed the Kremlin into the center of Middle East diplomacy. His message is simple: Russia is back as a major power and a solution to this deadly, depressing war runs through Moscow.

After a month of bombing anti-Assad Sunni rebels, Putin summoned Assad to a surprise meeting in the Kremlin, setting off fresh speculation that a made-in-Moscow formula for ending the war was now in play. The United States was understandably intrigued: After only one meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to invite Russia’s ally, Iran, to a new round of Syria peace talks, which occurred on Oct. 30 in Vienna.

Can Putin succeed where others have failed? It’s possible, but unlikely. The Russian president has opened a hornet’s nest in Syria, and everyone, including Putin, is being stung again and again.

A closer look at Putin’s gamble shows that his seven may, in fact, end up as snake eyes — a losing gamble that fails for reasons uniquely Russian, relating to the often ignored but crucial fact that more than 20 million of Russia’s 144 million people are Sunni Muslims, who naturally sympathize with the Sunni Muslims currently being bombed and killed by Russians in Syria. Any Russian miscalculation in Syria could therefore severely undermine Putin’s political power base at home.

And it doesn’t stop there. Not only has Putin ordered the bombing of Sunni rebels in Syria, he has also created a new Russia-led coalition of Shiite powers — Iran, Iraq, and Syria — capable of sharing intelligence and striking as one against its Sunni enemies. In this way, whether intended or not, he has opened a de facto war against Sunni Arabs, who are led by Saudi Arabia, and aligned with the United States.

President Barack Obama has repeatedly stressed that he seeks no proxy war with Russia — yet that is precisely what appears to be emerging. This region of chronic turbulence — already burning with war, hatred, and religious schisms — has now become even more unstable, fueled by the formation of two antagonistic coalitions: Russia’s Shiite alliance, and a U.S.-supported Sunni coalition.

For Putin, this poses an existential challenge from which there is no escape — a dilemma rooted in Russian demography and history. Most of Russia’s Sunni Muslims live in the Northern Caucasus, historically the scene of anti-Russian Islamist upheavals. Chechnya was the scene not long ago of two bloody wars pitting Muslims against Slavs. Neighboring Dagestan is another powder keg, part of the jihadists’ self-proclaimed caliphate of the Caucasus. Clerics there deliver sermons considered sympathetic to the goals of the Islamic State — and as many as 2,400 young Muslims across Russia have answered the call, a development that sends chills up and down Putin’s spine.

The Russian president recently told CBS’s Charlie Rose that the “most important” reason Russia entered the war in Syria was the “threat of their return to us.” His chronic nightmare has been that, once trained in the tactics of modern terrorism, these young Muslims would slip back into Russia and blow up planes, trains, theaters and schools, as they have done before. “We are,” Putin explained, “better off helping Assad fight them on Syrian territory.”

Fears about Islamist terrorism permeate Russian history.

Fears about Islamist terrorism permeate Russian history. In the 19th century, Leo Tolstoy and other Russian writers penned popular stories about Russian officers fighting wild Islamist warriors in the Northern Caucasus. This was a common theme in many books — the Slavic officer battling the Islamist renegade, one fighting to protect Christian civilization, the other determined to uproot it.

Interestingly, the theme is even being echoed today on Russian television. Dmitry Kiselyov, Putin’s favorite firebrand anchorman, explained with nationalistic bravado why Russia was fighting in Syria on his weekly program: “Russia is saving Europe from barbarism for the fourth time,” he said.

Saving Europe for the fourth time? “Let’s count,” he replied. “The Mongols, Napoleon, Hitler, and now the Islamic State.”

Kremlin leaders have struggled with their fraught relations with Russia’s Muslims several times over the past century. During World War II, the Muslims of Crimea were unceremoniously exiled to Siberia, because they could not be trusted to fight the Nazis. After the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin pleaded with Ukraine to remain in the union. “We cannot have a situation,” Yeltsin argued, “where Russia and Byelorussia would have two votes as Slavic states against five for the Islamic states.”

Russians also recall the Basmachi of Central Asia, an almost forgotten tribe of Islamic State-like warriors who formed their own caliphate in the 1920s, rising against Russian domination. They were mercilessly slaughtered by Russian troops a decade later. But their Islamist message has again begun to stir millions of unemployed, restive young Muslims in the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, representing a direct threat to Russia.

Putin seems especially worried by this prospect. A month ago, he observed military maneuvers by 100,000 Russian troops in Central Asia. As many as 7,000 Muslims from the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia may now be fighting with the Islamic State, he warned, bringing terrorism into their neighborhood by way of Afghanistan. They could also come by way of Syria and Iraq.

Like his predecessors, Putin too is haunted by Islamist terrorism. He sees it as an emerging threat to Russia’s stability as a nation — in his view, it must be fought and destroyed, whether in Syria or in Russia. History suggests he will come up short in both places, and suffer the political and diplomatic consequences.

No one can any longer conceal the fact that Russia, leading a quasi-holy alliance with Shiites in Iran, Iraq, and Syria, is now at war with Sunnis in Syria. Over and over, these attacks are shown on Russian television. The pro-Kremlin reporters who covered Ukraine are now covering Syria — same reporters, same message of Russian triumphalism — raising degrees of pride among ethnic Russians but mountains of anxiety and pain among its Sunni Muslims.

Russia’s Sunni Muslims are baffled and frightened by what they see and hear. Even if Russia had not entered the Syrian war, another Chechen-type eruption was a looming threat – and now, the possibility of a revolt by angry Muslims is even more real. Indeed, it may only be a matter of time.

That is why Putin’s gamble in Syria is so risky. He may be further alienating Russia’s own Sunni Muslim population, and inciting the very violence he had hoped to avoid.

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Syria Iraqi fighters (KSS) next to a #SyAF Mi-25 armed with a rusty OFAB-250-270 unguided bomb.

5 days ago,#RuAF IL-76 (RA-76634) moved Syrian/Iraqi fighters (KSS) to the front-not allowed to share exact loc.

#RuAF Mi-8 AMTSh moved closer to the battlefield. First time outside Lattakia

Минобороны России ‏@mod_russia
#SYRIA #FOOTAGE #Su34 strike against a plant producing explosive devices (#ALEPPO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_Qe6p75Wk …

If this was a plant producing explosive devices--there was not as single secondary explosion that occurred......

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/02/us-mideast-crisis-iran-saudi-idUSKCN0SR19G20151102

Mon Nov 2, 2015 9:41am EST

Iran says may quit Syria talks, in worsening spat with Saudi rival

DUBAI | By Yara Bayoumy and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin


Iran said on Monday it would quit Syria peace talks if it found them unconstructive, citing the "negative role" of Saudi Arabia, in the latest twist in a spat between the regional rivals that bodes ill for efforts to ease turmoil across the Middle East.

Increasingly bad-tempered exchanges between the conservative Sunni-ruled kingdom and the revolutionary Shi'ite theocracy have dampened hopes of improved ties after the adversaries sat down for their first meeting to discuss the Syria war last week.

"In the first round of talks, some countries, especially Saudi Arabia, played a negative and unconstructive role … Iran will not participate if the talks are not fruitful," ISNA cited deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying.

Delivering unusually personal criticism, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appeared to reprimand Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who, on Saturday, lashed out at Tehran for what he termed its interference in regional countries.

"An inexperienced young man in a regional country will not reach anywhere by rudeness in front of elders," Rouhani was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA on Monday. He did not name the 'young man' but Jubeir was assumed to be his target.

PROXY STRUGGLE

Jubeir, in his mid-50s, took up his job on the death this year of veteran predecessor Prince Saud al-Faisal at age 75.

World and regional powers including Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Vienna on Friday to discuss a political solution to Syria's civil war but failed, as expected, to reach a consensus on the future of President Bashar al-Assad. Iran backs Assad in the war while Saudi Arabia supports rebels seeking to oust him.

It was the first time Tehran and Riyadh were at the same table to tackle a war that has evolved into a wider proxy struggle for regional dominance between Russia and Iran on Assad's side and Turkey, U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states and Western powers who support rebels to various degrees.

Saudi Arabia wants Assad gone, and has provided support to Syria's moderate opposition forces, while Iran has sent in fighters and material support to bolster Assad.

Less than 24 hours after the Vienna talks, Jubeir used a high-profile regional security conference in the Gulf Arab kingdom of Bahrain, which Iran's government did not attend, to attack Iranian policies.


"NEGATIVITY"

Jubeir accused Iran of attempting to smuggle weapons to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as meddling in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, something he said was "driving the negativity" in Iran-Saudi relationship.

"We have extended our hand in friendship to Iran," said the soft-spoken Jubeir, adding that Riyadh had made the point "time and time again" that it sought good relations with Tehran.

"It is up to the Iranians whether they want to have relations with us based on good neighborliness ... or if they want to have relations that are filled with tension.

"That is on Iran."

Tehran reacted with ire.

Speaking to Iranian media, Abdollahian warned Jubeir "not to test our patience". He did not elaborate.

In 2011, U.S. authorities said they had foiled a plot by two men linked to Iran's security services to assassinate Jubeir, then the Saudi ambassador in Washington. Iran denied any role.

Riyadh had long refused to accept any Iranian presence at Syria peace talks. Dynamics changed after Iran sealed a deal on its disputed nuclear program with world powers that began to ease its international isolation.

The start of Russian air strikes in Syria in support of Assad helped to persuade Western powers that as one of Assad's top supporters, Tehran had to be at the negotiating table too.

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Shootings started very early in #Syria 2011: Here a video from #Homs, July allegedly showing police shot at.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61d_1314287262 …

Intense volume of #Israel|i fighter jets are over large parts of #Quneitra and west #Daraa now..

In Bid to Counter Iran, Ayatollah in Iraq May End Up Emulating It
http://nyti.ms/1kkTQZE

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins ·

Looks like we'll be following this with "Fact Checking Russia’s Claim That It Didn’t Bomb A Hospital in Syria"
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2015/11/01/fact-checking-russias-claim-that-it-didnt-bomb-a-mosque-in-syria/ …

Video claims to show MANPADS attack on #RuAF Su-24 in #Idlib
Could also be a bird though..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUdKMn7Rfw …

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins
Big drop off in the number of Syria airstrike videos being posted online by the Russian Ministry of Defence, for some reason.

Footage
#Day34 of the #Putin/#Assad offensive vs. #TerMaela.
Rebels still hold it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtAp9Kwwu0 …

News
The #FSA recaptured #Ghmam from regime forces despite all #RussianAirStrikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgik345tfQA …

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Crow Bat--what do you think????

ISIS controls Al-Qaryatayn. Closer to Homs but I keep saying it's making a long detour for Qalamoun & southern Syria.

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Here we go again.
Pro-#Assad/#Putin hackers started another automatised spamming attack on me.
@Support @hilfe

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Shootings started very early in #Syria 2011: Here a video from #Homs, July allegedly showing police shot at.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61d_1314287262 …

Intense volume of #Israel|i fighter jets are over large parts of #Quneitra and west #Daraa now..

In Bid to Counter Iran, Ayatollah in Iraq May End Up Emulating It
http://nyti.ms/1kkTQZE

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins ·

Looks like we'll be following this with "Fact Checking Russia’s Claim That It Didn’t Bomb A Hospital in Syria"
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2015/11/01/fact-checking-russias-claim-that-it-didnt-bomb-a-mosque-in-syria/ …

Yesterday--
Liwa Fursan al-Haqq (#FSA) rebels clashing with regime forces south of #Aleppo today
https://youtu.be/Tqu5rWNVL9I

Video claims to show MANPADS attack on #RuAF Su-24 in #Idlib
Could also be a bird though..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUdKMn7Rfw …

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins
Big drop off in the number of Syria airstrike videos being posted online by the Russian Ministry of Defence, for some reason.

Footage
#Day34 of the #Putin/#Assad offensive vs. #TerMaela.
Rebels still hold it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtAp9Kwwu0 …

News
The #FSA recaptured #Ghmam from regime forces despite all #RussianAirStrikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgik345tfQA …

Footage
Al-Qarassi South of #Aleppo still in rebel hands.
Regime advances towards #Hadher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DuDfNIotd0 …

Footage
Syrian rebels fight #ISIS in #Herbel, North of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJmjxizS3k …

Footage
Children in Al-Nashabiyah show remnants of missiles fired at them by #Putin/#Assadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JIjCofncc …

Latakia: Syrian Rebels kill major war criminal. Assad regime commander Hassan Makhlouf

Damascus: Syrian Rebels capture number of new position around Deir Salman & kill dozens of Assad regime fighters

Syria: vid of 100s of foreign militants in #Aleppo, fighting to substain the #Assad regime
https://youtu.be/iEGRskRUYsM
Iraqi Shia militia......

Aftermath of a deadly Russian air strike on a market in Maarat al-Nouman, Idlib. #Syriahttp://youtu.be/G4sYAihXD-U

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Russian info war...........

Russian owner of the Independent and Evening Standard, has called for Britain to ally with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
https://twitter.com/CKohutS/status/661241341456838656
pic.twitter.com/bZxqCcUejK

When Russia says the sky is blue, peer out of the window to double check. #Rule

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Syria MAP UPDATE: the situation in Syria as of 01/11/2015, bigger at https://pietervanostaeyen.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/syria-map-update-dd-november-1-2015/ …
pic.twitter.com/LQXd8U2bOL

Update #Map - The Military Situation in South of #Aleppo | #Syria | Nov 2.
HD: http://archicivilians.com/2015/10/28/map-south-aleppo-syria-october-28/ …

MAP - East of #Hasakah | #Syria | October 31.
HD: http://archicivilians.com/2015/10/31/the-military-situation-in-east-of-hasakah-syria-october-31-2015/ …

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Syria's Multiple Wars: Civil War + Sectarian War + Proxy War http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/syrian-civil-war-guide-isis/410746/?utm_source=SFTwitter …
pic.twitter.com/MjrORjZbay

Brownie points for not letting American values stand in the way of diplomacy ��

State Dept on WaPo reporter removed from Kerry mtg #Uzbekistan:Press officers & dip sec work hard but "We're not perfect" To review incident

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2 Iranians #IRGC "Moslem Nasr" and 'Mohammadreza Asgarifard"+1Afghan fighter "Khanali Yusefi" killed in Syria,Aleppo
pic.twitter.com/qCxPNAQY64

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RU MoD:"The hospitals, which we were accused of bombing,don't even exist." Not any more >>
http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/ong-acusa-regime-sirio-de-matar-mais-de-600-medicos-em-4-anos-de-guerra-15563973 …

ALL hospitals that Ru MoD says "don't exist", actually exist. Or existed before the bombings. How can one lie SO BLATANTLY?

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Syria #RuAF hit Center-S1 espionage facility in Tell Harra. SIGINT elements missing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_Qe6p75Wk …
pic.twitter.com/3yN8jrd2YB

Were rebels asked by foreign supporters to bring back some SIGINT "goodies" ?

Heavy RuAF attacks on northern #Hama villages today.
https://youtu.be/eJmgJZ3ZVuo

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Syria Iraqi fighters (KSS) next to a #SyAF Mi-25 armed with a rusty OFAB-250-270 unguided bomb.

5 days ago,#RuAF IL-76 (RA-76634) moved Syrian/Iraqi fighters (KSS) to the front-not allowed to share exact loc.

#RuAF Mi-8 AMTSh moved closer to the battlefield. First time outside Lattakia

Минобороны России ‏@mod_russia
#SYRIA #FOOTAGE #Su34 strike against a plant producing explosive devices (#ALEPPO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_Qe6p75Wk …

If this was a plant producing explosive devices--there was not as single secondary explosion that occurred......

Reference the RuAF so called strike against the "explosives plant"---fake reporting by the Russian MoD.......

Russian MoD still giving false info. Geolocated by @obretix to Quneitra not Aleppo

Here:
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=33.063317&lon=35.991906&z=19&m=b …

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The Syrian Observer ‏@observesyria
Opposition forces take number of towns and villages in Aleppo
http://www.syrianobserver.com/EN/News/30059/Rebels_Nusra_Front_Advance_Near_Aleppo_Regime_Sold iers_Killed …


Syrian rebel groups led by Nusra Front have recaptured ground from regime troops and their allies in the northern and southern countryside of Aleppo, with fighting still underway, a rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday.

Rebels and Nusra fighters have seized Hwayiz, al-Shagila, al-Hemaidi villages, as well as al-Qarasi and Jameeiya hills, while regime forces seized control of the towns of Maryamin and Jmeima, south of Aleppo.

Abu al-Abbas, a Nusra Front field commander, told Zaman al-Wasl that 50 regime soldiers were killed in Nusra's counterattack which began early Saturday.

The Nusra Front posted footage online showing its advance as Russian warplanes extended their air strikes on eastern and southern Aleppo.

At least 64 people, including 28 children, have been killed by Syrian army and Russian air raids in Aleppo in the past 24 hours, activists said on Saturday.

The raids hit Aleppo city and a number of towns and villages elsewhere in the province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as Syrian regime forces backed by Russian air cover intensified bombardments against insurgents throughout the country, according to Reuters.

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http://www.syrianobserver.com/EN/News/30066/SNHR_771_Syrians_Killed_October

SNHR: 1,771 Syrians Killed in October

Nov 2nd, 2015 by Syrian Network for Human Rights



Regime forces and allied militias responsible for the deaths of at least 793 civilians last month alone, UK-based monitoring group reports

At least 1,771 people were killed in Syria during the month of October, a new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights detailed.

According to the Network, regime forces and allied militias killed 1,284 people, 793 of which were civilians, including 153 women and 158 children (an average of five children per day). The percentage of women and children accounted for more than 39 percent of total victims, a stark indication of the deliberate targeting of civilians by regime forces.

The report indicated that regime forces had also killed 491 insurgents, while the number of people killed in Russian air strikes reached 276 people, 263 of them civilians, including 86 children and 44 women. According to the figures, the strikes killed no more than 13 insurgents.

The number of people who died under torture also amounted to 99 victims – an average of three people a day.

The report stated that Kurdish self-administration forces killed 10 civilians, including three children and two women.

The number of victims who were killed at the hands of the so-called Islamic State reached 71 people, including 53 civilians (three children and one man died under torture), as well as 18 militants from other opposition factions, including a gunman who died under torture. The report also stated the Nusra Front was responsible for the killing of five militants and one woman.

Syrian armed opposition factions killed 45 civilians, including 13 children, 11 women and three people died under torture.

US-led international coalition forces killed one civilian.

The Network has been unable to determine who was responsible for the deaths of 28 militants, 50 civilians, including eight children and nine women.

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Military parade of #Jordan backed "Free Tribes of southern #Syria"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81SlHqEV-4s …

Aleppo Heavy clashes north of Kafr Haddad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb6T2x0_x4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.924575&lon=37.072077&z=15&m=b …

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Crow Bat--have you heard anything on this which came in last night?????

NOT CONFIRMED.....only comments from last night.....
Syria Commander of #Iran'ian Quds Force #IRGC Asadullah Soleimani killed on #Aleppo battlefield the right one

Not confirmed.........
This link claims Hassan Nasrallah's son Hadi was killed in a nightclub brawl & not fighting Israel
http://fb.me/7OMhLs9uf

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Kata'ib #Hezbollah from #Iraq lead by #Iran's #IRGC fighting in southern #Aleppo #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEGRskRUYsM … …

Hama Defection of regime soldiers in Ghab plain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ6rxVTHWf0 …

Homs #IS advance on southern outskirts of Tiyas Airbase (T4) & overrun several checkpoints
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.435514&lon=37.606201&z=12 …

Aleppo Heavy clashes north of Kafr Haddad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb6T2x0_x4 … http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.924575&lon=37.072077&z=15&m=b …

Nusra killed lots of #Iran paid mercenaries south of #Aleppo

Syria Several #FSA-forces merge in eastern #Qalamoun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2o26Jrmli4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.794556&lon=36.758881&z=13&m=b …

Latakia: Assad army Major Col. Ayman Mahmoud Ayoush was killed today, he's the son of Brig. General Mahmoud Ayoush also killed b4

Iranian Revolutionary Guard mourns 3 new "military advisers" killed in Syria. See link
http://fb.me/2chkxM5dE

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Kata'ib #Hezbollah from #Iraq lead by #Iran's #IRGC fighting in southern #Aleppo #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEGRskRUYsM … …

Hama Defection of regime soldiers in Ghab plain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ6rxVTHWf0 …

Homs #IS advance on southern outskirts of Tiyas Airbase (T4) & overrun several checkpoints
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.435514&lon=37.606201&z=12 …

Aleppo Heavy clashes north of Kafr Haddad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb6T2x0_x4 … http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.924575&lon=37.072077&z=15&m=b …

Nusra killed lots of #Iran paid mercenaries south of #Aleppo

Syria Several #FSA-forces merge in eastern #Qalamoun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2o26Jrmli4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.794556&lon=36.758881&z=13&m=b …

Latakia: Assad army Major Col. Ayman Mahmoud Ayoush was killed today, he's the son of Brig. General Mahmoud Ayoush also killed b4

Iranian Revolutionary Guard mourns 3 new "military advisers" killed in Syria. See link
http://fb.me/2chkxM5dE

Rebels destroy regime army technical & 23 mm gun over al-Bnjeera hill southern #Aleppo.

Rebels killed 4 IRG leaders in 24 hrs in Aleppo & Latakia.
Syed Ali Alami
Izzat Suliman
Hamid Fatimi
Sajad Hussaini

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Footage
Aftermath of #coalition air strike vs. #ISIS in #Hasaka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55JuJgjB40 …

Heavy fighting between Ahrar-al Sham and pro-regime forces South of #Aleppo this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb6T2x0_x4 …

1 civilian was killed+24 wounded when #Putin/#Assad jets bombed the #MaaratAlNuman market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pF2xMk0Sc …

Footage--yesterday
More #Putin/#Assad air strikes on residential areas in Al-Lataminah, #Hama prov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hnTp06q-A …

Footage
A woman was killed in an #Assad/#Putin bombing raid on Al-Lataminah today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdT-UPQ5R0 …

NEW weapon system with FSA---
Footage
New heavy MG with the #FSA in #Latakia province (?!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-2b9pOxuB8 …

Footage--yesterday
#Assad/#Putin planes drop bombs all along the frontline in #Hama province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJmgJZ3ZVuo …

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Footage
Aftermath of #coalition air strike vs. #ISIS in #Hasaka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55JuJgjB40 …

Heavy fighting between Ahrar-al Sham and pro-regime forces South of #Aleppo this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb6T2x0_x4 …

1 civilian was killed+24 wounded when #Putin/#Assad jets bombed the #MaaratAlNuman market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pF2xMk0Sc …

Footage--yesterday
More #Putin/#Assad air strikes on residential areas in Al-Lataminah, #Hama prov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hnTp06q-A …

Footage
A woman was killed in an #Assad/#Putin bombing raid on Al-Lataminah today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdT-UPQ5R0 …

NEW weapon system with FSA---
Footage
New heavy MG with the #FSA in #Latakia province (?!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-2b9pOxuB8 …

Footage--yesterday
#Assad/#Putin planes drop bombs all along the frontline in #Hama province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJmgJZ3ZVuo …

10-barrel 'Battar' rocket launcher belonging to Kata'ib Hizballah. Location unspecified.
http://youtu.be/cOqNjFnkwzA

FSA 1st Coastal Division TOW missile destroys a tank near Jubb al-Ahmar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekxJUHRY2po …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.673509&lon=36.232738&z=15&m=b&search=jubb%20al-ahmar …

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https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/if-us-intelligence-on-russia-is-broken-a-bit-what-can-be-done-to-help-fix-it/

If US Intelligence on Russia is Broken (A Bit), What Can Be Done To Help Fix It?


General Philip Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, recently gently but unmistakably reprimanded the US intelligence community for its “lack of ability to see into Russia, especially at the operational and tactical level.” While he acknowledged change was under way, even then he made it clear that this was very, very much a work in progress: “We’re gently turning the nose of this ship to get back to what we need to be looking at.” Is Russia befuddling US intelligence, and if so what should be done about it?

Outside the movies, intelligence rarely gets a good press. On screen, the perceptive analyst or gung-ho field agent gets that one scrap of world-changing intel, realizes what it means, and suddenly—typically, just in the nick of time—policy spins on the proverbial dime, and all is put to rights in time for the closing credits. In practice, it is never quite so neat and clear, and the intelligence community tend not only to have to juggle multiple possible interpretations and “best truths” but they are also just a few voices in the mighty and often discordant choir of government.

Precisely because information and timely warning is its core business, the intelligence agencies tend to get the blame when governments are caught by surprise. And, let’s be honest, Washington has been caught by surprise again and again when Moscow is concerned, from the seizure of Crimea to most recently the Russian deployment to Syria.

Needless to say, the spooks have rushed to their own defense and affirmed that they were on top of all these developments and briefed to that end. To an extent, this is entirely true, but not necessarily the whole truth. Modern intelligence products often cover a range of possibilities, but there is a world of difference between including something as a potential option and clearly identifying it as the likely one. Consider, for example, the real and evident confusion which reigned when the “little green men” were taking Crimea while Moscow flatly disavowed responsibility: were they local militias, were they mercenaries, were they soldiers working for maverick local commanders? The answer was the simplest one – that Moscow was lying – but the period of uncertainty allowed Russia’s special forces to seize the peninsula in a smooth fait accompli. This did not suggest a strong and confident grasp of the unfolding situation in Washington.

Director of National Intelligence Clapper’s response to the charge of intelligence failure is instructive. In an interview, he said

“We tracked [the situation in Ukraine] pretty carefully and portrayed what the possibilities were and certainly portrayed the difficulties we’d have, because of the movements of Russian troops and provided anticipatory warning of their incursion into Crimea.”

Likewise, a CIA spokesman said:

“Since the beginning of the political unrest in Ukraine, the CIA has regularly updated policymakers to ensure they have an accurate and timely picture of the unfolding crisis. These updates have included warnings of possible scenarios for a Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Any suggestion otherwise is flat wrong.”

That’s all well and good, but tracking stuff happening, potential difficulties, possible scenarios and the like do not represent clear and unambiguous predictions, and the “anticipatory warning” does seem to have been pretty much as things happened, not early enough to do anything potentially to forestall the invasion. (Although in fairness, probably nothing could have done so.) Certainly on the eve of the invasion, US intel sources were briefing The Daily Beast that “From an intelligence perspective we don’t have any reason to think it’s more than military exercises.”

Of course often the problem is that smart and shrewd insights from the intelligence community get lost in the political process. The making of foreign policy is, after all, an arena in which diplomats and lobbyists, op. ed. writers and lawyers, soldiers and senators, overseas allies and domestic sentiment all get to pitch in. Given how rarely the intel products really can speak with the absolute confidence any good lobbyist or ignoramus can muster, no wonder they can get drowned out by other voices.

But it’s not quite that simple. There does seem to be a genuine intelligence problem with Moscow.

In part, this is because the Russians are very, very good at counter-intelligence. Just as they managed to fly their bombers into Syria undetected with transponders off, hidden beneath a larger cargo plane, so too they kept their Crimean operation off the US intelligence radar. A military exercise masked the movement of troops; orders were transmitted on paper, to sidestep America’s extraordinary signals intelligence capabilities; soldiers were even instructed to keep their cellphones and radios off, again to prevent the leakage of radioelectronic indications. The Russians may not be able to match most American intel capacities, but they are aware of them and put considerable thought into working out how to minimize them.

This is exacerbated by the extraordinarily small, tight circle within which most policy and especially security policy is made. We do not even know for sure exactly whose advice Putin takes. My own suspicion is that neither Foreign Minister Lavrov nor Defense Minister Shoigu are in the innermost circle, and instead we have to look to figures such as Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov. These are close-lipped loyalists, hardly likely to make incautious comments in public, nor easy to bring under human or electronic surveillance.

Furthermore, given that this is a regime which expects the elite and masses alike to rally round whatever is the policy of the day, it feels no need to signal policy in advance, to float ideas to gauge their response, or do any of the other kind of systematic foreshadowing exercises that might otherwise give us meaningful clues.

Finally, it takes time to come to terms with real, human-level change. Today’s Putin is not the Putin of his first two presidencies, when outspoken nationalist rhetoric was tempered by a much more pragmatic approach. Whether because we are seeing the real Vladimir or, more likely, because like most authoritarian leaders he has over the time become more insulated from reality, more steeped in his own mythology, this is a different man, heading a different team, for a different national purpose.

So what can be done to help “turn the nose of the ship”?

Given that the issue is human more than technical, I suspect that – for all the many challenges that poses – a greater concentration on building up HUMINT assets in Russia is a must. This poses risks of all kinds, from the potential for further embarrassing incidents such as the 2013 Ryan Fogle “wig-gate” case, through to the actual risk to agents and handlers. But if we are in a war of sorts with Russia – and the Russians certainly seem to feel so – then this cannot be without some danger and cost.

Secondly, play the analysis. Just as with so many other tectonic shifts which seem to have caught the USA and the West by surprise, from the collapse of the USSR to the Arab Spring, there are often no magic documents, no secret communiqués that would have revealed the future. Instead, what was needed was and is now an analytic capacity that is at least as strong as the technical intelligence capacity developed. It’s all very well building a $1.7 billion NSA computer facility in Utah, or planning a $2-4 billion next-generation spy satellite constellation – arguably you’d get vastly more bang for buck spending half as much on the best analysts around and giving them access to the huge amounts of open source information available. Predicting Russia’s next move will come by sneaking into Putin’s head; all the spy satellites will show is what he has decided as it starts to happen.

Thirdly, this means there needs to be as much creativity as possible in the intelligence process. If one accepts Clapper’s assertion that Putin is “kind of winging it, day to day,” then this becomes all the more important. One key area is the interaction with outside experts and perspectives, something which certainly happens, but often only under complex (and expensive) cut-outs which may help security but slow and reduce the flow of information. Furthermore, it is harder to be sure that iconoclastic insights actually inform the intel process; just as the CIA’s Red Cell is an attempt to challenge the groupthink that so often emerges, there is the scope to treat the outside analytic community – from journalists to academics to random bloggers – more often as analytic partners rather than just a passive resource.

Fibnally, the US government needs to listen more to its spooks, but also demand more from them. Consider the disastrous “reset” which, inter alia, put great emphasis on cultivating seat-warmer-in-chief, President-for-Halflife Dmitri Medvedev, something that helped infuriate and alienate Putin. As I understand it, this very much came out of the White House and State, without meeting with great enthusiasm from the intel community. At present, the spooks may not be listened to much, but then again there is a certain comfort for them in that. Time for them to take a more central role, but also to be expected to abandon the defensive tendency to offer ranges of possibilities like a fan of cards and asking the policy makers to pick whichever one they choose.

Continued.......

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Footage
Just another horrific day in the #Damascus suburb of #Daraya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_7t4go6gfk …
pic.twitter.com/A47kK1vQYP

Russian info warfare......
Where are these so-called "experts" & "geopolitical analysts" on Russian TV?
https://noodleremover.news/fake-tv-experts-68b7747d0ee1 …
v @st_belkovsky
pic.twitter.com/RE48KjFM9J

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Part of the problem in dealing with Putin is the following question...just how much of the Russian propaganda aimed at their own civil society and also aimed at the West is actually being believed by Putin and his inner circle??

There is a serious danger when the leadership of a nation state starts to fully believe their own propaganda as it keeps them from fully understanding "reality" thus potentially making seriously failed decisions based on that "colored altered state reality".

NewRecord!
One of the last two #RuAF videos was - deliberately - 335 kilometers misplaced (2nd one 65 kilometers).

How #Russia names it's #RuAF targets in #Syria:
Step 1: Choose a random (evil!) target description
Step 2: Choose a random Syrian town
Done.

Hitting green houses & hospitals, claiming them to be car bomb factories or simply not there
Welcome to Russia 2015

Hilarious #RussianPropaganda.
"Hangar with 10 car bombs" hit in #EastGhouta.
No 2nd blasts. It was a "greenhouse"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1Vj5P3hJY …

Liar & propaganda piece @MuradoRT celebrates, hospital was missed by 68 m, but doesn't say #SCHOOL was hit - twice.

Since 1983 when the then Soviet Union truly assumed that a NATO summer/autumn exercise being conducted then was designed to start a full scale war with the then Soviet Union until today's Russia there is a red underlying thread in all of the statements coming from Putin and his FM--namely the US wants to start a war with Russia.

He actually believes this and thus interprets any move made by the US in that light---

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Part of the problem in dealing with Putin is the following question...just how much of the Russian propaganda aimed at their own civil society and also aimed at the West is actually being believed by Putin and his inner circle??

There is a serious danger when the leadership of a nation state starts to fully believe their own propaganda as it keeps them from fully understanding "reality" thus potentially making seriously failed decisions based on that "colored altered state reality".

NewRecord!
One of the last two #RuAF videos was - deliberately - 335 kilometers misplaced (2nd one 65 kilometers).

How #Russia names it's #RuAF targets in #Syria:
Step 1: Choose a random (evil!) target description
Step 2: Choose a random Syrian town
Done.

Hitting green houses & hospitals, claiming them to be car bomb factories or simply not there
Welcome to Russia 2015

Hilarious #RussianPropaganda.
"Hangar with 10 car bombs" hit in #EastGhouta.
No 2nd blasts. It was a "greenhouse"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1Vj5P3hJY …

Liar & propaganda piece @MuradoRT celebrates, hospital was missed by 68 m, but doesn't say #SCHOOL was hit - twice.

Since 1983 when the then Soviet Union truly assumed that a NATO summer/autumn exercise being conducted then was designed to start a full scale war with the then Soviet Union until today's Russia there is a red underlying thread in all of the statements coming from Putin and his FM--namely the US wants to start a war with Russia.

He actually believes this and thus interprets any move made by the US in that light---

Russia trying to restart Syria talks in Moscow next week https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/661528871607656448 …

Doomed to fail as long as Russia keeps bombing the so called "new ISIS"--the FSA-- who believes anything Russia/Putin says, and or wants to do???

Putin wants to talk--unleased hoi bombing and ground offensive against the so called IS and now he has this.....???

Food shortage (vegetable, sugar, chicken, eggs, and other goods) is reported in loyalist #Aleppo due to seizure of supply road by #IS

A large number of the SAA is surrounded inside Aleppo as well and Putin does not admit that.......

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For anyone interested, I wrote a background briefing for the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee on #Syria http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmfaff/457/457.pdf …

Oh......now with the failed ground offensive and the RuAf hitting everything but Islamic State we seem to have an argument between "the partners in this adventure"???????

#IRGC commander Jafari: #Russia seeks to secure its own interests in #Syria, it doesn't look for #Assad to remain https://twitter.com/SharghDaily/status/661471304042848256 …

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Raqqa the Airstrikes today is by Russian Warplanes and they Don't hit #ISIS HQ most of the places are civilian and they destroy Bridge

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Ah......Russia the "savior of the world"......????????

http://tass.ru/en/politics/833807

Russian Foreign Ministry: Regime change in Syria to become global-scale disaster

November 03, 17:09 UTC+3


MOSCOW, November 3. /TASS/. The staying of Bashar Assad in power in Syria is not a principled aspect for the Russian Federation, but the change of regime in that country would be a global-scale disaster, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova said Tuesday.

"We have never said Assad's staying in power is a principled aspect. We are saying that the change of regime in Syria could become a disaster not only on a local or even regional scale, but, with account for that problem with refugees that we have now, this could become a big black hole," Zakharova said on the Ekho Moskvy radio.


So the genocidal activities of Assad against his civil society with 300K killed, 1.2 wounded and over 11M IDPs/refugees is NOT already a "disaster"??

AND on top of this Russian bombings killing even more civilians and destroying hospitals, schools and residential areas????

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Damascus Heavy losses today for regime forces in southern #Daria- failed again to storm suburb

Syria 2 dozen airstrikes hit #IS hold #Raqqa city today- reports of huge number of dead

Hama Rebels destroyed 3 regime tanks with TOW today
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.291660&lon=36.663008&z=15&m=b …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.418800&lon=36.438925&z=16&m=b …

Homs United Nations delegation visit regime besieged al-Waer suburb
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.739109&lon=36.671462&z=15&m=b …

Reports: Jaish al Fatah take over Tell Othman
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.418660&lon=36.438560&z=16&m=b …
taken by rebels for the first time

Evidently on top of new D30 artillery pieces, a new HMG and now evidently a newer model TOW system have arrived into the FSA....
Footage
Seems like the #FSA in #Latakia received new TOW systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekxJUHRY2po …

Footage
Syrian rebels recapture town in the #Lajat region from #ISIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cP8BfSsLKw …

FSA advance northern #Hama and take Tall Othman base, al-Shanabra village & CP near Morek.
https://youtu.be/kHa0WGk_XHk

Breaking : In a well planned ambush #Daraya Opposition kill and wound a large number of Regime soldiers as they try to break into the city.

Map #Syria, static map of control in Syria, with Russian airstrikes and ground troops.
HD - http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/3f31/1i75nfut3z30z9czg.jpg …

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Damascus Heavy losses today for regime forces in southern #Daria- failed again to storm suburb

Syria 2 dozen airstrikes hit #IS hold #Raqqa city today- reports of huge number of dead

Hama Rebels destroyed 3 regime tanks with TOW today
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.291660&lon=36.663008&z=15&m=b …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.418800&lon=36.438925&z=16&m=b …

Homs United Nations delegation visit regime besieged al-Waer suburb
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.739109&lon=36.671462&z=15&m=b …

Reports: Jaish al Fatah take over Tell Othman
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.418660&lon=36.438560&z=16&m=b …
taken by rebels for the first time

Evidently on top of new D30 artillery pieces, a new HMG and now evidently a newer model TOW system have arrived into the FSA....
Footage
Seems like the #FSA in #Latakia received new TOW systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekxJUHRY2po …

Footage
Syrian rebels recapture town in the #Lajat region from #ISIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cP8BfSsLKw …

FSA advance northern #Hama and take Tall Othman base, al-Shanabra village & CP near Morek.
https://youtu.be/kHa0WGk_XHk

Appears that now the RuAF and the SyAF are flying 24 hour bombing cycles.

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The White Helmets
‏@SyriaCivilDef When we say we run into danger, not an exaggeration. See this from Douma today. Courage under fire.
http://youtu.be/ZFdSawso0Yc

Footage
#FSA TOW hits #Assad regime tank at the #Hama front.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2NeHdKNumk …
#Syria pic.twitter.com/htSqAPVu7L

Footage

The field hospital of Al-Eis, destroyed by a #RussianAirstrike shortly ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v5Q-SFDU08 …

Further evidence of suspected #US Switchblade loitering munition #UCAV use in #Syria
https://www.facebook.com/Military.Media.Syria.Central/videos/481563902050162/?permPage=1 …
They had intension to double their sorties by November. But No surge is seen and it seems they have postponed the plan
pic.twitter.com/jlVyNpdugY

Now #RuAF has just four Su-34s in Syria. Arrival of four more examples is expected to happen by 1st November.
pic.twitter.com/g4V3iIzx1z

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Not exactly sure just what planet the Russian MoD has finally decided to land on---notice it is not rejected by the Russian FM and or Putin so it must be the "truth".

BREAKING: Russian Air Force, Syrian Opposition Reach

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151103/1029540546/russian-airstrikes-syria-2000-terrorist-targets.html#ixzz3qRkdfhCy

Middle East
18:06 03.11.2015(updated 19:26 03.11.2015)

Russian Jets Destroyed Over 2,000 Terrorist Targets Since September 30


The Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out 1,631 sorties and destroyed 2,084 ISIL and Nusra Front targets in Syria since the start of the anti-terrorist air campaign in the country on September 30, the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.

"Since the beginning of the operation, our jets have conducted 1,631 sorties in Syria hitting a total of 2,084 terrorist targets," Col. Gen. Andrei Kartapolov said.

Russian military jets have destroyed 287 terrorist command centers, 155 ammunition and fuel depots, 52 terrorist training camps and 40 plants manufacturing rockets and landmines since September 30, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Andrei Kartapolov said.

Terrorists in Syria suffer heavy losses due to the Russian aviation's actions, he added.

"As a result of the actions of our aviation, we have managed to disorganize the terrorist command system and supply chain they had created during a long period of time, as well as to inflict heavy losses upon terrorists, undermine their morale and convince their sponsors that further financing of these criminals is futile."

Contacts With Syrian Opposition

The Russian Defense Ministry has established contacts with leaders and field commanders of a number of patriotic Syrian opposition groups, which prioritize the country's integrity despite being opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Kartapolov said, adding that Moscow hopes that this would help to resolve the Syrian conflict.

The Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian opposition have reached an agreement on joint action against terrorists, he said.

He emphasized that "this close cooperation allows us to join efforts of the government troops and other patriotic forces in the Syrian Arab Republic, which had been in opposition earlier, to present a united front against a common enemy — international terrorism."

"In the framework of a broader international coalition on the fight against terrorism in the Middle East, we have established contacts with leaders and field commanders of several opposition units. These patriotic groups which, despite fighting government forces for four years, hold the idea of preserving Syria as a united sovereign state, free from ISIL and other terrorists of all sorts, higher than their political ambitions. We hope that this step will become a turning point in the resolution of the Syrian conflict."

According to Kartapolov, the Russian air group deployed in Syria has already coordinated joint anti-terrorist efforts with the Syrian opposition by establishing reliable data exchange channels.

He added that the Russian Aerospace Forces had hit 24 terrorist targets, the coordinates of which had been provided by the Syrian opposition.

"Today, the Russian Federation carried out 12 sorties against 24 terrorist targets using high explosive munition and high-precision KAB-500 bombs in the areas of Tadmur, Deir ez-Zor, Itria, and eastern Aleppo. The coordinates of all these objects were provided to us by representatives of the opposition."

Russia-US Cooperation Over Syria

Moscow and Washington have started to cooperate in the skies over Syria as Russian and US aircraft have conducted a joint exercise on the actions in case of a near collision over the war-torn country. Russian and US jets have practiced a close approach to a minimally safe distance of 5.5 kilometers, he added.

"Today at 11 a.m. Moscow time, Russian and US air forces carried out joint drills on actions by crews and land personnel in cases when aircraft fly in close proximity to each other," Kartapolov said.

"During the drills in a specially designated zone, the crews of Russian and international [US-led] coalition planes maneuvered to a safe distance of 3 nautical miles from each other, established radio contacts on a designated frequency and exchanged messages on the parameters of their flights in Russian and English."

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Humor.........

2011: Assad doesn't need to stay
2012: Assad doesn't need to stay
2013: Assad doesn't need to stay
2014: Assad doesn't need to stay
2015: ..

78 killed, 530 injured, in three days of Syrian airstrikes on besieged town of Douma: SAMS.
http://bit.ly/1WvfVke
pic.twitter.com/5ZuvrH7vwy

Russian Orlan 10 UAV over Douma city this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LoxqXpgigE …

3 Rayan Roshd RU-60G & 1 RU-90/120G thermal scopes captured by JN/AQ & allies south of Aleppo.

Hama Jaish al Fatah take over Tell Othman & 2 other barriers
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.418660&lon=36.438560&z=16&m=b … …

Tajammu al-Izza (#FSA) rebels took out a regime tank in northern #Hama province
https://youtu.be/W2NeHdKNumk

FSA seized 3 tanks, BMP, 23mm gun, 14.5mm gun and howitzers from Tall Othman base.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.419299&lon=36.438432&z=17&m=b …

Daraa Rebels assault against #IslamicState-enclave in #Lejat area & retake a village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps21H98-kr4 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz3bDrv6DYM …

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Video of the Switchblade loitering UAV near Izaa found by SAA https://www.facebook.com/Military.Media.Syria.Central/videos/481563902050162/?permPage=1 …
Only US forces known to use it.

Izraa is +-40km from Israel. Means UAV was launched inside Syria (10km op. rang ). US SOF in Horran plain ? Little IS presence in Daraa

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Iran Rev Guards Cmdr Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari said despite their help, #Russia ain't happy w #Hezbollah in #Syria http://ar.mehrnews.com/news/1858457/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%AC%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B6-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%8A …

Interesting part of IRGC head Jafari's speech as reported by Nasim:in Syria it's unclear 2 what extent Russia agrees with iranian positions.

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Humor from the NATO side......

32 aircraft in Syria since about Sep 25 hitting 2064 targets means about 1.6 targets/day/aircraft. @NATO must be amazed....

ISIS WANT #Russia to keep bombing #Syria as its helping them
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/616510/Islamic-State-Russian-airstrikes-Syria-helping-ISIS …
pic.twitter.com/dK7FUr5PKX

Syria Current frontline btw Rebels & foreign Shiite militias in southern #Aleppo countryside
pic.twitter.com/EsDHSNPTod

FSA storming al-Shanabra CP after Tall Othman base and regime troops flee to al-Mughayer.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.416824&lon=36.455126&z=15&m=b …
https://youtu.be/ooU31AOnuvI

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4 Iranian revolutionary guard leaders killed in Syria in just around 24 hours.
4 Iranian officers killed in Iran including Iran's revolutionary guards leader of the Fatimid Corps militia
http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/67lH8 …

85 Assad forces killed by clashes with #IS near #Palmyria many Vehicles Destroyed

North of Deraa province, IS captures al-Madura, near Hush Hammad village

Syrian rebels managed to capture another point on the outskirts of Morek (7 now in total)

Syria rebel coalition capture Kaziya Hamidi barracks

Al Jazeera reports more than 23 civilians killed in Russian airstrikes

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HalabNewsNetwork claim 350.000 people fled regime offensive backed by #Russia & #Iran in southern countryside of #Aleppo/ 70 villages

SYRIA: Pentagon says no 'exercise' between Russian & US air forces, claim it was a 'test'
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-pentagon-idUSKCN0SS24Z20151103 …

U.S. Brings Dogfighters to Counter Russians Over Syria
http://thebea.st/1izzF97
F-15s in Turkey—

VIDEO Living through the hell of #Russia(n) "precision" bombing (of civilians #Allepo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ3Sw3uMB_4&feature=youtu.be …
pic.twitter.com/zsem8a7oWM

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Novaya Gazeta: Russian Defense Ministry offering "short-term contracts" to those wishing to fight terrorism abroad. https://twitter.com/novaya_gazeta/status/661435990976933888 …

ISIL militants use tunnel bomb in Rasafa district, Deir ez-Zor city "to target government forces"

NDF footage
Despite all brutal force by #Assad and his allies, they are stuck in #Hama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiSD-7x9oBM …
pic.twitter.com/V4bGKUd368

Footage
Scene after what activists say was a #RussianAirStrike on civilians in #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF62GMR2UcM …
pic.twitter.com/scbPS4kCro

Crater of a #RussianAirstrike bomb in #Al_Lataminah.
Size is beyond imagination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGIy85FEZpI …
pic.twitter.com/Ajiy7cFHHg

Footage
Just another school, hit and destroyed by #Assad/#Putin forces in #Ter_Maela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmz3QoMZho …
pic.twitter.com/ovV136j4Z1

Footage
Ahrar al-Sham launches multiple #Grad rockets vs. #Assad forces in #Latakia prov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-x6LMVpFts …
pic.twitter.com/zYZlE2Wqct

Syria #Map
Frontline verification East of #Kernaz in #Hama province.
Pro-#Assad #NDF footage used.
pic.twitter.com/XvZD3TNibu

Also looks like the latest rebel map is 100% right and the #silo barrier S-E of #KafrNabudah was recaptured.
pic.twitter.com/7mUh6iGehK

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Shiite militia "Kata'ib Hezbollah" from #Iraq (fighting alongside #Assad) advance in southern #Aleppo #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFdhPaf4vFI …

#Hama Video of rebel assault on Tell Othman & nearby barriers yesterday evening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbrbPcCY98 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.417454&lon=36.440063&z=15&m=b …

Hama Rebels claim shot down MIG 21 btw Kafr Nabudah & Suqaylabiyah
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.387371&lon=36.449203&z=13&m=b …

Regime army officer Farouq Ismael captured in Tall Othamn northern #Hama y'day.

More cluster munitions targeting residential areas and that means civilians.
Russian cluster munition attack on Kan Shaikhoun #Idlib last night.
https://youtu.be/lQ-tSiS7YvY

Amazing TOW hit------
They did destroy it after all :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhbtvDJ73aI …

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First responders @SyriaCivilDef rush into the attacked area trying to save what they can.
https://youtu.be/X3aroDjvQTI

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An extremely interesting comment came through the Russian Today Arabic channel which makes one wonder just how much longer the Russia military will support Assad--aimed more towards the Iranians not Assad........

Russia says operation to continue as long as Assad army carries out offensive.
This came as a surprise..

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Syria: locals in #FSA-held eastern #Daraa province are holding democratic elections for a regional council

FSA Southern Front rebels managed to recapture al-Madura area in the Lajat plain (#Daraa) from #Daesh militants

Important: #FSA (Ahrar AlAshair) retake Al Madwara village, Legaat (E.#Daraa) from #daesh after they gained advantage from regime airstrikes

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The Syrian sealift "Syrian Express" makes it possible..........

First sighting of T-72B in #Syria
From #Russia with Love

pic.twitter.com/NIQoEBZdD7

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U.S. Official: Countering Kremlin Propaganda Is Long-Term Effort
- http://go.shr.lc/1krsiBU

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Shiite militia "Kata'ib Hezbollah" from #Iraq (fighting alongside #Assad) advance in southern #Aleppo #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFdhPaf4vFI …

#Hama Video of rebel assault on Tell Othman & nearby barriers yesterday evening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbrbPcCY98 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.417454&lon=36.440063&z=15&m=b …

Hama Rebels claim shot down MIG 21 btw Kafr Nabudah & Suqaylabiyah
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.387371&lon=36.449203&z=13&m=b …

Regime army officer Farouq Ismael captured in Tall Othamn northern #Hama y'day.

More cluster munitions targeting residential areas and that means civilians.
Russian cluster munition attack on Kan Shaikhoun #Idlib last night.
https://youtu.be/lQ-tSiS7YvY

Amazing TOW hit------
They did destroy it after all :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhbtvDJ73aI …

News
In response to losing big on the #Hama front, #Assad/#Putin forces attacked peaceful #KhanShaykhun tonight.
pic.twitter.com/hNPNHZX9v0

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Perfect example of the effects of Russian info war on Russians themselves....

Russian March banner: "#Putin is a descendant of historical figures, in 2015 he'll free #Russia of U.S. occupation."
pic.twitter.com/VintaOol09

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NOW English ‏@NOW_eng #Iran Revolutionary Guard officers avoiding service in #Syria: report http://mme.cm/SEAW00

Damascus Brigade General Ali Muhanna among ~40 #SAA sodiers killed during failed assault in #Darya suburb yesterday

Hama Rebels shelling #Assad-forces in Buraydij & try to advance from al-Bani southwards http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.396747&lon=36.460233&z=15&m=b …

Another Russian air strike on a hospital........
National Hospital in #Raqqa city out of service after hit by several #Russia'n airstrikes
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.950192&lon=39.003745&z=18&m=b
There is only one way to counter #RussianPropaganda and lies:
WITH #FACTS.

Hama Tour in al-Bani barrier-captured by rebels yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhZSe4HxeM …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.413327&lon=36.457229&z=16&m=b …

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NOW English ‏@NOW_eng #Iran Revolutionary Guard officers avoiding service in #Syria: report http://mme.cm/SEAW00

Damascus Brigade General Ali Muhanna among ~40 #SAA sodiers killed during failed assault in #Darya suburb yesterday

Hama Rebels shelling #Assad-forces in Buraydij & try to advance from al-Bani southwards http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.396747&lon=36.460233&z=15&m=b …

Another Russian air strike on a hospital........
National Hospital in #Raqqa city out of service after hit by several #Russia'n airstrikes
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.950192&lon=39.003745&z=18&m=b
There is only one way to counter #RussianPropaganda and lies:
WITH #FACTS.

Hama Tour in al-Bani barrier-captured by rebels yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhZSe4HxeM …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.413327&lon=36.457229&z=16&m=b …

Hama Rebel destroyed regime tank in Al Mughayr
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.411543&lon=36.488471&z=15&m=b …

Hama Field tour in captured regime base on Tell Othman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O9xR12k9nc …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.418608&lon=36.438861&z=15&m=b …
Not confirmed....
Regime forces retake control of the chechpoints between Khanaser and Athirya, opening the route between #Aleppo and #Hama

Footage
Deadly #FSA TOW attack on pro-#Assad forces column in #Latakia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDWF8hW4L1g …

Footage
#IDPs from #RussianAirstrikes are still afraid of the #RuAF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e85ACbBSRHc …

More barrel bomb attacks on civilians......
Footage
Just another terrible day in #Douma.
Barrel bomb hit the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi2JF7vzbr8 …

RussianArmy base in #Latakia today.
Su-34 w/ 2 small bombs, fully armed Su-30 (A-A-missiles) taking off. No Su-24.
Quite interesting ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QswSROxmTgg …

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News
Four weeks, #Assad/#Putin forces tried to storm besieged #Homs province, but 100% failed.
All calm now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9hSOi0yksI …

Interesting stuff going on at the #Hama front.
Reports of one #Assad jet down, no Russian air strikes on taken #TellOthman and beyond today.

After the fall of #TellOthman, #Assad forces seemingly pulled back 3 kms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhZSe4HxeM …

Breaking #Analysis #Map
The #FSA took al-Bani, N-W of #Kernaz from #Assad forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhZSe4HxeM …

Aftermath footage.
Weapon used still unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1HOJNzdtRI …

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News
Four weeks, #Assad/#Putin forces tried to storm besieged #Homs province, but 100% failed.
All calm now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9hSOi0yksI …

Interesting stuff going on at the #Hama front.
Reports of one #Assad jet down, no Russian air strikes on taken #TellOthman and beyond today.

After the fall of #TellOthman, #Assad forces seemingly pulled back 3 kms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhZSe4HxeM …

Breaking #Analysis #Map
The #FSA took al-Bani, N-W of #Kernaz from #Assad forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhZSe4HxeM …

Aftermath footage.
Weapon used still unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1HOJNzdtRI …

BreakingNews
4th of #November 2015
The #FreeSyrianArmy shot down an #Assad air force MiG-21 over the #Hama front.
Waiting for details.

Russian MoD lies again and again and again.......
It's also no coincidence, this bombed-out-of-the-building "terrorist car bomb" looks exactly like a a hospital cot.

Footage
#FSA 9K111 "Fagot" vs. #Assad regime position in #Latakia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUy9hRzX07s …

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Syria Clashes at entrances of Qarah city at #Damascus - #Homs highway
btw #Hezbollah/#NDF & #IslamicState
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.148039&lon=36.739998&z=13&m=b …

Syria unconfirmed Reports: Regime closed #Damascus -> #Homs highway bc clashes with #IslamicState in this area:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.212086&lon=36.797333&z=12&m=b …

FSA Victory Army intensify shelling on regime army positions in Morek northern #Hama.

Jaysh al-Islam capture two regime army militants & retreat from positions in Ghouta mounts after heavy clashes.

October has been the heaviest month of the war for ATGM strikes. Why? http://www.type63.com/2015/11/russian-airstrikes-spur-heaviest.html?m=1 …

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Pro-regime media confirm #FSA shot down regime Mig 21 jet in northern #Hama.
Its amazing how rebels know this already, assume from local observatories. Jet No. 645 & pilot called "Munadel" means fighter. Not anymore..

Rebels claim they downed regime jet after attacked Tall Othman #Hama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6upNfCquhYc&sns=tw … via youtube

FSA Central Division rebels claim shooting down #Assad jetfighter in Kafrnabouda, North #Hama countryside

Regime army "al-Fil" IRAM landed in Daraya #Damascus will probably be returned to #Assad forces as IEDs soon.

Second video on this FSA TOW ambush......
Regime soldiers run around like a headless chicken after TOW hit thr convoy in rural Latakia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDWF8hW4L1g …

Russian destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov headed to #Syria.
http://arabic.cnn.com/middleeast/2015/11/04/russia-syria-update …

After failing miserably in #Ghmam ,massive strikes on Jub al-ahmar including Air, TOS-1, Howitzers,MRL's, everything they have.

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Russian and Iranian end states do not seem to be matching up............

IRGC agency #FARS admits #Tehran and #Moscow divided over #Assad's fate.#Russia ready to keep regime without Assad; we want to keep both.

American-trained & equipped sectarian Shiite militias invading #Syria to help prop up a criminal dictator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFdhPaf4vFI …

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Terrible & #GRAPHIC video:
@SyriaCivilDef dig out dead boy after #Assad airstrike on #Douma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou8l668cdRg&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DO u8l668cdRg&has_verified=1 …

AND the RuAF is not killing civilians...........?

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One of the 5+ T-72, on top #TellOthman was still operational & taken away by Syrian rebels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y56FzFPgZ3g …

FSA statement on the liberation of #TellOthman and al-Bani.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y56FzFPgZ3g …

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Russia trying to deliver Assad TOW proof tanks.........ALTHOUGH there is a TOW missile designed to defeat the reactive armor.

Newly delivered Russian T-72B1 in Syria. First MBTs delivery since early 90's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHtr2__EIw …

Heavy clashes around Morek #Hama. Reports rebels trying to advance but no confirmation yet.
https://youtu.be/QPsvKuZc41k

Rebels show booty captured from Tall Othman army base northern #Hama.
https://youtu.be/brmwLLu9Yso

US military spokesman COL Steve Warren says under ten percent of Russia's airstrikes in Syria are targeting ISIS

RuAF & regime army cluster-bombing Khan Tuman & reports rebels captured al-Hamra village southern #Aleppo.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.076852&lon=37.053881&z=14&m=b …

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Rouhani adviser Hussein #Sheikh al-Islam, leader of "students" who held #US diplomats in '79 in KAYHAN today:#Islam lives,#America dies!

Ayatollah Alam #Al-Hoda: Ultimate aim of #Shia is world government under #Hidden #Imam.Our task is to prepare for his speedy return.

Islamic agency #Irna claims a number of #African-American "leaders" are in Tehran for the #End of #America #Week. But gives no names.

Islamic Interior Minister #Ayatollah Pour-Muhammadi leads #Death to #America #Day's special prayers in #Moscow #Grand #Mosque today.

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Rouhani adviser Hussein #Sheikh al-Islam, leader of "students" who held #US diplomats in '79 in KAYHAN today:#Islam lives,#America dies!

Ayatollah Alam #Al-Hoda: Ultimate aim of #Shia is world government under #Hidden #Imam.Our task is to prepare for his speedy return.

Islamic agency #Irna claims a number of #African-American "leaders" are in Tehran for the #End of #America #Week. But gives no names.

Islamic Interior Minister #Ayatollah Pour-Muhammadi leads #Death to #America #Day's special prayers in #Moscow #Grand #Mosque today.


Odd silence from pro-Iran deal advocates who thought Iran would water down its anti-U.S hostility post-deal

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Jaysh al-Nasr (#FSA) rebels also destroyed a regime Gvozdika in northern #Hama https://youtu.be/LhbtvDJ73aI

One of those tanks was already taken out earlier that day by a #FSA mortar hit
https://youtu.be/c6hu3ck4Qvk

Furqat al-Ashaer (#FSA-SF) rebels moments before they retook al-Madura from #Daesh
https://youtu.be/ffaEfkkO4y4

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Iran has carte blanche to meddle in the region & no one has leverage on Iran as a result of this deal
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/11/04/The-Iran-deal-is-Iran-s-nuclear-bomb.html …

Commander of elite #Iran unit killed in #Syria - IRGC officers dying because of Assad's army's incompetence
http://mme.cm/LEAW00

Eliot Higgins ‏@EliotHiggins
The Russian Ministry of Defence gets caught out lying about its airstrikes in Syria, again
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2015/11/04/fact-checking-russias-claim-that-it-didnt-bomb-a-hospital-in-syria/ …

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Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
What I haven't seen for a while is the use of improvised barrel bombs by the Syrian air force, maybe Russia got them to stop after all

Russia'n airstrikes on Khan Tuman at southern outskirts of #Aleppo with "White Phosphorus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9hYVzr5ZSw …

Regime media confirm death of pilot after MIG-21 shot down in northern #Hama today ejection chute did not open

Hama Unconfirmed reports: Rebels seized "Aboud" -main barrier south of #Morek http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.349856&lon=36.700451&z=16&m=b …

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Humor...............

Since flying isn't considered safe anymore, some Russian vacationers drive to #Syria for their holiday
pic.twitter.com/RTyvUVhdv5

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Appears US Congressmen do not know their facts and or they are Putin supporters........?

.@RepEdRoyce: "#Russians at one point were bombing more targets in one solitary day than we hit in a month."

BUT 90% of all the RuAF air strikes are against the FSA NOT against Islamic State.

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Hama Unconfirmed reports: Rebels seized "Aboud" -main barrier south of #Morek http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.349856&lon=36.700451&z=16&m=b …

Idlib Airstrike on Ram Hamdan violate the Fuah/Zabadani -truce agreement
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.023904&lon=36.714849&z=14&m=b …

Hama Regime convoy with 30 vehicles fled Aboud-barrier south of #Morek town southwards #Soran
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.351151&lon=36.701760&z=15&m=b …

FSA Fursan al-Haq brigade fighters storm Tal Anjara in Southern Aleppo. #Syria
http://youtu.be/Ptu23cwmlBw

Important: Jund Al-Aqsa rejoin Jaysh Al-Fateh coalition again. via Shaykh Abdullah al-Muhaysini official account.

No #US boots on the ground” has now turned into “No #US troops on front lines”
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/obama-troops-syria-front-lines-151103044942304.html …

US: Despite our urging, Moscow yet to stop regime's practice of barrel bombing. Russia's intent is to preserve the regime -

Syrian opposition leader warns of deception by Russia during peace talks
http://gu.com/p/4dqy9/stw

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I had commented last week that the estimated Russian war costs to be in the 5M USD per day--not far from wrong--still think in the 5M range BUT in fact with the increased heavy Syrian Express sea lift potentially at the 6M USD per day range.

#US-officials claim #Russia's war in #Syria will cost $ 4 million/day

Creeping up to Ukraine numbers now. Russia's Syria force grows to 4,000, U.S. officials say
http://reut.rs/1OoOSrP via

[OUTLAW 09]

How could the Kremlin cover up combat deaths in Syria? See how they did so in Ukraine. Read our report:
http://www.interpretermag.com/an-invasion-by-any-other-name-the-kremlins-dirty-war-in-ukraine/ …

[OUTLAW 09]

When the Times subtweets Obama in its lede. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/world/middleeast/backlash-against-us-in-iran-seems-to-gather-force-after-nuclear-deal.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 …

[OUTLAW 09]

There has been in social media countless complaints about how the US companies FB and Twitter appear to be working hand in hand with the Russian info warriors for the last year.

.@AndreiSoldatov and @irinaborogan say Facebook, Twitter should be transparent about their dealings w/ the Kremlin: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2015-11-03/putin-trolls-facebook …

Maybe it has to do with the massive Russian oligarch investment into both companies in excess of over 1B USDs into both companies.

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RFE/RL ‏@RFERL · Nov 2
On @PowerVertical podcast w/ @MarkGaleotti & @Dawisha: A look at Russia's gangster weapon and its effectiveness.
http://bit.ly/1Q5ad96

Putin is king, but Russians know they’re on their own
Nice @Vedomosti piece trans by @meduza_en on a PR paradox
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/11/02/opinion-putin-is-king-but-russians-know-they-re-on-their-own …

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria'n regime left behind his cannons in #Morek /northern #Hama?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytwpIxwoTbo …
Expect lots of booty

Syria'n rebels retakes #Morek city in northern #Hama after lost it 1 year ago
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.369035&lon=36.690216&z=13&m=b …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mork …

The moment Jund al-Aqsa fighters started storming regime 1st defense line. It seems Jund al-Aqsa alone took Morek!

Hama Unconfirmed: Rebels shot down (another) MIG jet above #Morek tonight

Multiple reports says regime army still control few positions in Morek 4th, 6th points and 2 other positions near M5 highway.

FSA stormed strategic mountain ridge in southern rural #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptu23cwmlBw …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.925340&lon=37.088428&z=15&m=b

TOW hit technical with 23mm gun in southern rural #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTkKoO2cJw …

Rebels intensify shelling on Braidij army base and village northern #Hama before possible ground assault.

Pic taken from Kuweyres airbase for clashes in Shekh Ahmed 2.5 km taken by regime army today
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.151321&lon=37.527666&z=14&m=b …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.388560&lon=36.467507&z=16&m=b …

Confirmed: Jaysh al-Fath fully capture the 7th and 8th regime army points closing on Morek from the south.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.353785&lon=36.697662&z=16&m=b …

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria'n regime left behind his cannons in #Morek /northern #Hama?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytwpIxwoTbo …
Expect lots of booty

Syria'n rebels retakes #Morek city in northern #Hama after lost it 1 year ago
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.369035&lon=36.690216&z=13&m=b …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mork …

The moment Jund al-Aqsa fighters started storming regime 1st defense line. It seems Jund al-Aqsa alone took Morek!

Hama Unconfirmed: Rebels shot down (another) MIG jet above #Morek tonight

Multiple reports says regime army still control few positions in Morek 4th, 6th points and 2 other positions near M5 highway.

FSA stormed strategic mountain ridge in southern rural #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptu23cwmlBw …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.925340&lon=37.088428&z=15&m=b

TOW hit technical with 23mm gun in southern rural #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTkKoO2cJw …

Rebels intensify shelling on Braidij army base and village northern #Hama before possible ground assault.

Pic taken from Kuweyres airbase for clashes in Shekh Ahmed 2.5 km taken by regime army today
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.151321&lon=37.527666&z=14&m=b …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.388560&lon=36.467507&z=16&m=b …

Confirmed: Jaysh al-Fath fully capture the 7th and 8th regime army points closing on Morek from the south.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.353785&lon=36.697662&z=16&m=b …

Footage
#FSA TOW destroys pro-#Assad forces jeep South of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTkKoO2cJw …

BREAKINGREPORTS
Syrian rebel recaptured #Morek!!!
After 1 year and 8 days
and despite #Russia and #Iran, heavily supporting #Assad now.

[OUTLAW 09]

SAA Withdrew from #Morek 32 Minutes ago at 10 PM. and is fortifying #تل_اللحايا #SyrianArabArmy

Update : Morek is not completely captured. Shia militias are camping in several buildings South & they're surrounded by Jaish Al-Fateh.

SAA soldier with a russian RPO-A Shmel, 4 km from Kuweyres AB.

Huge blow for regime. #Morek recaptured by JaF about 8 months after they lost it. #Russia couldn't help.

Russian Air Force IL-76MD over #Syria right now.

Aleppo: Syrian Rebels retake strategic Anjara mountain in south Aleppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptu23cwmlBw …

Daraya: major losses for Assad forces trying to advance. At least 17 fighters killed
http://all4syria.info/Archive/266513

Lattakia: Syria rebels destroying aaaad regime positions in Mount Doreen http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/vxPpz …

BREAKING
Reports of #Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting the Hospital field of #Taftanaz town minutes ago

Taftanaz is being targeted by Russian airstrikes. This was meant to be under a ceasefire.

Deraa: looks like (maybe ISIS) assassinated a Nusra leader with car bombing
http://fb.me/7A7InNhMy

Senior Hezbollah leader Ali Belhas killed in #Syria http://bit.ly/1WzMOfz

I guess Assad regime returned favour... Dead Russian soldiers in Latakia hospital due to Assad regime barrel bombs http://http.alsouria.net/content/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B0%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AC-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%AB%D8%AB-%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3-%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A3 …

[OUTLAW 09]

SAA Withdrew from #Morek 32 Minutes ago at 10 PM. and is fortifying #تل_اللحايا #SyrianArabArmy

Update : Morek is not completely captured. Shia militias are camping in several buildings South & they're surrounded by Jaish Al-Fateh.

SAA soldier with a russian RPO-A Shmel, 4 km from Kuweyres AB.

Huge blow for regime. #Morek recaptured by JaF about 8 months after they lost it. #Russia couldn't help.

Russian Air Force IL-76MD over #Syria right now.

Aleppo: Syrian Rebels retake strategic Anjara mountain in south Aleppo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptu23cwmlBw …

Daraya: major losses for Assad forces trying to advance. At least 17 fighters killed
http://all4syria.info/Archive/266513

Lattakia: Syria rebels destroying aaaad regime positions in Mount Doreen http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/vxPpz …

BREAKING
Reports of #Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting the Hospital field of #Taftanaz town minutes ago

Taftanaz is being targeted by Russian airstrikes. This was meant to be under a ceasefire.

Deraa: looks like (maybe ISIS) assassinated a Nusra leader with car bombing
http://fb.me/7A7InNhMy

Senior Hezbollah leader Ali Belhas killed in #Syria http://bit.ly/1WzMOfz

I guess Assad regime returned favour... Dead Russian soldiers in Latakia hospital due to Assad regime barrel bombs http://http.alsouria.net/content/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B0%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AC-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%AB%D8%AB-%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3-%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A3 …

News
Despite massive MLRS strikes this afternoon, regime forces unable to hold #Hama front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOym4FYtWuM …

[OUTLAW 09]

Pro-#Assad tweeps panicking, ask: "Why SAA performs better in Aleppo than in Hama?"

Answer is simple: Almost no Syrians involved S of Aleppo
On the pro-Assad side of course.

Rebels made of 90%+ Syrian nationals.

Footage
The #FSA storms a regime (or Iranian/Iraqi?!) position south of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptu23cwmlBw …

[OUTLAW 09]

JN/AQ also captured a long-range surveillance thermal camera probably part of IEI's Sadad 102 system.

REPORT: Nusra turns guns on rebels in effort to capture "only corridor" into blockaded Homs.
http://syriadirect.org/news/nusra-turns-guns-on-rebels-in-effort-to-capture-%E2%80%98only-corridor%E2%80%99-into-blockaded-north-homs/

Ford: KSA seems 2believe Syria gov losing war of attrition,sharply at variance w/US position no mil.victory possible
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/syria-peace-track-divisions-envoys-momentum.html#ixzz3qZRBDxaJ

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Just hours later in the village ...
#Assad has no "Plan B" to his scorched earth policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NByUKQFIo8Y …

From Russian info warriors..........
Of course ...
RT turns a few hundred rebels from various groups into "thousands of jihadis".

Reports say assad plane crashed in #Hama. This is confirmed. Unconfirmed: MiG-23 shot down by MANPADS.

VIDEO: Newly created Syrian Democratic Forces advances against #ISIS South of #Hasake, destroying VBIED -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs_4a5K-oGw&feature=em-uploademail …

[CrowBat]

It's silly to see Moarek faling like this: after all, this is the northern gateway to Hama...

Last year, the regime needed four months of pitched assaults to capture the place. NDF and Hezbollah lost about 30 MBTs and IFVs, plus over 1,000 combatants there...

After its fall - think it was April or May last year - it was completely looted by the NDF and whatever other gangs and militias are 'pro regime': they really took away everything that was not fixed.

And now, after that '87th Brigade of 11th Tank Division' (translation: '87th Brigade NDF, all Christians), were left to guard the place on their own, with only minimal IRGC support, they've lost it to one VBIED, few insurgent T-72s, and a multi-prong attack in a matter of hours...

Various regime-fans are still so shocked by this loss, they simply can't believe it...

[OUTLAW 09]

It's silly to see Moarek faling like this: after all, this is the northern gateway to Hama...

Last year, the regime needed four months of pitched assaults to capture the place. NDF and Hezbollah lost about 30 MBTs and IFVs, plus over 1,000 combatants there...

After its fall - think it was April or May last year - it was completely looted by the NDF and whatever other gangs and militias are 'pro regime': they really took away everything that was not fixed.

And now, after that '87th Brigade of 11th Tank Division' (translation: '87th Brigade NDF, all Christians), were left to guard the place on their own, with only minimal IRGC support, they've lost it to one VBIED, few insurgent T-72s, and a multi-prong attack in a matter of hours...

Various regime-fans are still so shocked by this loss, they simply can't believe it...

CB--great comment--anything on this below????

Syria: according to oppo media the #Latakia military hospital has been closed for days now, storing #russia|n KIA's
http://sobsrvr.com/e0qufBxU

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria Images from #Hama -> #Aleppo supply line
Regime need probably 1000+ soldiers to secure the ~250km road

Rebels sources say regime army military commander in Morek Gen. Iyas Saqr was killed y'day. Photo unconfirmed.

Regime army officers killed in north #Hama clashes:
Major Basil al-Ali in Tall Othman
Col. Hassan Mcanna in Morek

Airstrikes by #Russia on Al-Lataminah & Morek towns in northern #Hama now

Russia'n airstrikes hit Houla Region in north western #Homs province
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.898462&lon=36.511345&z=13&m=b …

[OUTLAW 09]

amnestypress ‏@amnestypress
New Syria report exposes vast scale& orchestrated nature of enforced disappearances in Syria
http://amn.st/6019BPUyD

Amnesty International: #Syria'n Regime kidnapped 65.000 people -only to
extort money from the families

[OUTLAW 09]

Daraa TOW hit tank in Manshiyah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smw8Lby4Xcw …

Footage
New #TOW systems made it to #Daraa city.
Not seen them in action there in months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smw8Lby4Xcw …

Hama Rebels seized a number of tanks from "tank battalion base" in #Morek city http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.384467&lon=36.692598&z=17&m=b

Jaish al-Fatih captured 10 tanks,4 Shilkas and 5 BMPs in #Morek

Syria Regime forces collecting their dead on battlefield in #Latakia mountains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wuW-ObyKs&feature=youtu.be …

VIDEO: Opposition forces in the town of Morek, #Hama announce their victory over loud speaker.

Liwa Fursan al-Haqq (#FSA) rebels clashing with the regime south of #Aleppo yesterday
https://youtu.be/Ptu23cwmlBw

From battlefield in southern rural #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um8LKHqtQnQ&feature=youtu.be …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.922698&lon=37.094178&z=15 …

Airstrikes in #IS held Abu Kamal bordertown to #Iraq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8M4L1TcWU …

Hama Airstrikes on rebel captured town of #Morek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98R8ppFyQOQ …

[OUTLAW 09]

Analyis #Map
#RussianAirstrikes on #Kafr_Zita, filmed from the entrance of #Morek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_7zLbp9F3Q …

SOHR reports this morning, "jihadis captured Morek", which is - as often - nonsense.
Multiple groups involved from islamists to moderates.

Widely ignored by the #SOHR & intl. media orgas,the Free Syrian Army plays an important role in the #Hama campaign.

Rebel gains in southern #Idlib / northern #Hama during the last 5 days. -> Crushing regime defeats.

The fall of strategic #Morek despite heavy intervention of #Russia (air) and #Iran (ground) makes clear #Syria can´t be retaken by force.

[OUTLAW 09]

VIDEO: Rebels in #Syria show soldier killed wearing Russian armor/helmet -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wuW-ObyKs …

BREAKING: FSA delegation has agreed to meet with Russian Foreign and Defence ministries in Abu Dhabi late next week #Syria - @euronews

Syria Spoils from #Morek so far: 10 tanks, 5 BMP, 4 Shilka ZSU-23-4,
technicals: 6 14,5mm gun, 3 23mm gun
Tank seized in #Morek
https://youtu.be/_gFmqV2kuak

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian total disconnect from the reality of Syria.. what planet is the Russia FM on these days....??

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Zakharova: The Russian air strikes have dealt a major blow to the terrorists’ command system
http://syria.mil.ru

So after 90% of all Russian RuAF strikes were against the FSA--SUDDENLY they share the Russian views of anti terrorism?????

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Zakharova: It’s important that we’ve established direct ties with several armed groups in #Syria that share our anti-terrorism views

The valid question this morning is which direction is the SAA fighting in.....appears Russia does not know themselves BUT hey they are fighting that is a given...?

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Zakharova: Backed by the Russian Aerospace Force’s effective raids, Syrian Army has started fighting more actively
pic.twitter.com/OYgoi6j0K0

Unexploded rocket fired by Russian warplanes carrying what appears to be chemical substance.
http://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2015/5-november-unexploded-rocket-fired-by-russian-warplanes-carrying …

[OUTLAW 09]

Hama Rebels seized military pontoon bridge from #SAA in #Morek

Hama Rebels taken Ganabra barrier for the second time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3y5h1SDRr4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.412243&lon=36.456714&z=16&m=b …

IslamicState claim 50+ people (13 children) killed by #Russia'n airstrikes on Abu Kamal border town #Syria - #Iraq
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.440327&lon=40.923042&z=13&m=b …

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria,1 month after the start of the Russian intervention: Jihadis have no problem w/moderate reporters & vice versa

Unconfirmed: Rebels capture 20 regime army militants were hiding in Morek and discover bodies of 5 NDF women killed during the clashes.

Ahrar al-Sham & #FSA forces advance today in Daraa & take couple of regime army positions near al-Manshiyah district
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=32.616984&lon=36.093950&z=15&m=b …

Rebels started pounding Tall Sukayk eastern Morek #Hama before possible ground attack.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.413449&lon=36.790059&z=16&m=b …

France to deploy aircraft carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' to anti-ISIS fight in #Syria and #Iraq. - @mestrate

An intensive wave of #Russia|n air strikes targeted rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, s- #Idlib gov today.

New detail here. Afghan refugees in Iran being sent to fight and die for Assad in #Syria
http://gu.com/p/4dqv4/stw

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian sea lift Syrian Express is on the move again......

Russian Navy Ropucha Class LLS Yamal 156 just crossed the Bosphorus southbound en route to Syria.
pic.twitter.com/4GMROREu30

Yamal is running really quick laps. Now under 2 weeks. Crew is not so excited about the view anymore. #SyrianExpress

Russia Gov owned Sovkomflot’s NS Concord tanker transits southbound Bosphorus; tanker usually involved with Вмф ops

вмф 197th Amphibious Ship Brigade/30th Surface Combat Div. LSTM Yamal 156 transits southbound Bosphorus

Russia's mysterious tanker NS Concord is back in the game. Heading south on bosphorus fully loaded.

Vologda-50 hoisted #ВМф Auxiliary Fleet’s Naval Ensign-blue flag with Andreevsky-
The welded name from 1989 "DURMUŞ USTA" is still visible under the paint.

Russian soldiers in uniform on both sides of the bridge of Vologda-50. #ВМф cargo vessel transited Bosphorus 9:00GMT

Syrian Gov owned cargo vessel Souria transits Bosphorus, en route from Latakia to Constanta 01:30amGMT ”

158 is back on the Bosphorus only in 1 week after her Tartus-bound transit. This is the fastest turn-around observed

This Bosphorus transit concludes the seventh Syrian deployment of #ВМф BSF Ropucha class LST Tsezar Kunikov in 2015

ВМф BSF Ropucha class LST Tsezar Kunikov 158 transits northbound Bosphorus

ВМф Auxiliary Fleet’s cargo vessel Vologda-50 returned to Bosphorus in 9 days after her Syria-bound transit

[OUTLAW 09]

BREAKING: Mustard gas used in #Syria fighting in August, says chemical watchdog OPCW - @AFP

MORE: Chemical weapons were used in #Syria in August by ISIS against rebels around the town of #Marea.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/us-mideast-crisis-syria-chemicalweapons-idUSKCN0SU2PZ20151105?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews …

SYRIA: #Hezbollah announces that 16 of it’s fighters were killed in the battle for #Morek

Putin's #Syria strategy is running into trouble - @ReutersTV

News
Jaish al Fateh troops are attacking Khirbat Masasinah, 4 km S-E of Al-Latemiyah.

Exact operational areas of several rebel groups,involved in the
Majority belongs to #FSA

Footage
Moment, rebel group "Conquerors in the land of Sham Army" captures #TellSukayk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzcjjzSmfY …

News
From what I see, there were NO #RussianAirstrikes on rebel-taken #Morek today.
Only #Assad air force strikes.

Picture
Riddle solved how the #FSA moves around its D-30 pieces in #Daraa province.
With @Toyota #Landcruiser/s.

Confirmed!
#TellSukayk retaken by Syrian rebel forces.
Several ATGM and heavy machine guns captured.

News
Hundreds of #FSA troops advance South and South West of #TellOthman.


FSA stormed al-Shanabra Checkpoint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BXZ48-DXt4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.408080&lon=36.440320&z=15&m=b …

News
The #FSA prepares the storming of #Braideej by bombing #Assad positions with mortars.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian sea lift Syrian Express is on the move again......

Russian Navy Ropucha Class LLS Yamal 156 just crossed the Bosphorus southbound en route to Syria.
pic.twitter.com/4GMROREu30

Yamal is running really quick laps. Now under 2 weeks. Crew is not so excited about the view anymore. #SyrianExpress

Russia Gov owned Sovkomflot’s NS Concord tanker transits southbound Bosphorus; tanker usually involved with Вмф ops

вмф 197th Amphibious Ship Brigade/30th Surface Combat Div. LSTM Yamal 156 transits southbound Bosphorus

Russia's mysterious tanker NS Concord is back in the game. Heading south on bosphorus fully loaded.

Vologda-50 hoisted #ВМф Auxiliary Fleet’s Naval Ensign-blue flag with Andreevsky-
The welded name from 1989 "DURMUŞ USTA" is still visible under the paint.

Russian soldiers in uniform on both sides of the bridge of Vologda-50. #ВМф cargo vessel transited Bosphorus 9:00GMT

Syrian Gov owned cargo vessel Souria transits Bosphorus, en route from Latakia to Constanta 01:30amGMT ”

158 is back on the Bosphorus only in 1 week after her Tartus-bound transit. This is the fastest turn-around observed

This Bosphorus transit concludes the seventh Syrian deployment of #ВМф BSF Ropucha class LST Tsezar Kunikov in 2015

ВМф BSF Ropucha class LST Tsezar Kunikov 158 transits northbound Bosphorus

ВМф Auxiliary Fleet’s cargo vessel Vologda-50 returned to Bosphorus in 9 days after her Syria-bound transit

ВМФ really improved turnaround times. Черноморский Флот BSF Yamal returns to Bosphorus in less than 8 days #Syria

[OUTLAW 09]

BREAKING: Mustard gas used in #Syria fighting in August, says chemical watchdog OPCW - @AFP

MORE: Chemical weapons were used in #Syria in August by ISIS against rebels around the town of #Marea.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/us-mideast-crisis-syria-chemicalweapons-idUSKCN0SU2PZ20151105?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews …

SYRIA: #Hezbollah announces that 16 of it’s fighters were killed in the battle for #Morek

Putin's #Syria strategy is running into trouble - @ReutersTV

News
Jaish al Fateh troops are attacking Khirbat Masasinah, 4 km S-E of Al-Latemiyah.

Exact operational areas of several rebel groups,involved in the
Majority belongs to #FSA

Footage
Moment, rebel group "Conquerors in the land of Sham Army" captures #TellSukayk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzcjjzSmfY …

News
From what I see, there were NO #RussianAirstrikes on rebel-taken #Morek today.
Only #Assad air force strikes.

Picture
Riddle solved how the #FSA moves around its D-30 pieces in #Daraa province.
With @Toyota #Landcruiser/s.

Confirmed!
#TellSukayk retaken by Syrian rebel forces.
Several ATGM and heavy machine guns captured.

News
Hundreds of #FSA troops advance South and South West of #TellOthman.


FSA stormed al-Shanabra Checkpoint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BXZ48-DXt4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.408080&lon=36.440320&z=15&m=b …

News
The #FSA prepares the storming of #Braideej by bombing #Assad positions with mortars.

Regarding "Jund al-Aqsa" numbers in #Morek,"thousands of" was sheer regime propaganda.
100-300 much more realistic.

Russia Reportedly Delivers Pantsir and Buk Anti-Aircraft Systems to Syria
http://bit.ly/1RYy48W
pic.twitter.com/oE1gkAmcfe

Footage
#Assad shelling of @SyriaCivilDef helpers / ambulance in #Douma, East of #Damascus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxT-UdEpQI … pic.twitter.com/zFAxZSjIuO

Photo not shown.........
Head of one of the most bloodthirsty & feared war criminals in Assads regime senior Commander Elias Sakr

Full list of spotted aircraft & aerial vehicles over Syria, October 2015:
http://luftwaffeas.blogspot.com/2015/11/spotte

Urgent
Heavy clashes between Rebels and #SAA mercenaries taking place on #Joubar neighborhood #Syria

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Obama war advisors on ISIS, Russia & China are resigning and/or criticizing the POTUS. Seems newsworthy. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy

Pentagon’s top Russia expert says she pushed tougher policy
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/evelyn-farkas-russia-pentagon-215517 …

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#SAA Brigade General Ayad Mohammed Saqer & Brigade General Hassan Issa killed in battle in northern #Homs today
Syria|n rebels in #Hama captured village of #Atshan and killed around 50 #Assad fighters, one #SAA brigade general pic.twitter.com/Rar3SUDKVA

Syria #Hama Rebels advance on Khirbat Masasinah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDw8GzH7_Es …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxurFFdrlwQ …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.291660&lon=36.663008&z=15&m=b …

Russia is feverishly working to create an imaginary connection between #Ukraine & ISIS
https://twitter.com/juliadavisnews/status/660865973948321792 …

Kremlin media suggest the A321 was shot down by a missile fired by Israeli or U.S. aircraft.
Remember this agitprop.
pic.twitter.com/0Q7QgFBbjW

Kremlin says US or Israel shot down #7K9268:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RobPulseNews/status/662223816870002688 …

What is the Obama WH doing about this? ZERO.
http://observer.com/2015/11/obama-fails-to-fight-putins-propaganda-machine/ …

More RuAF killing of civilians.....
Russia|n airstrike in Albu Kamal reportedly killed more than 50 civilians today. Many graphic pics/vids circulating
pic.twitter.com/GnQaxcK7AX

Aleppo Nusra Front try advance on Al-Waddihi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoNSVcd6mew&feature=youtu.be …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.097383&lon=37.124391&z=15&m=b …

Russian warplanes hit Bukamal in Deir ez-Zor with deadly air raids.
https://youtu.be/imPBN65JbqA

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Obama war advisors on ISIS, Russia & China are resigning and/or criticizing the POTUS. Seems newsworthy. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy

Pentagon’s top Russia expert says she pushed tougher policy
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/evelyn-farkas-russia-pentagon-215517 …

Is Putin About to Use Sinai Plane Disaster as He Did Apartment Bombings in 1999?
http://www.interpretermag.com/is-putin-about-to-use-sinai-plane-disaster-as-he-did-apartment-bombings-in-1999/ …

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Many in the US intelligence community studied at "online diploma mills" a @vicenews investigation finds
https://news.vice.com/article/the-most-militarized-universities-in-america-a-vice-news-investigation …

Iran Responsible for Killing 14 Percent of U.S. Troops in Iraq
https://shar.es/15G69y

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VIDEO+ #Russia now apparently dropping chemical weapons #Khan_Shaykoun, #Idlib #Syria https://www.facebook.com/Syrian.Revolution/videos/vb.420796315726/10156382656470727/?type=2&theater …
pic.twitter.com/sMzha0s29Q

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Images after #Russia'n airstrikes hit bordertown (to #Iraq)
of Abu Kamal with dozens of dead
Left out to graphic.......

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News
Syrian rebels start attack on #AlBoida, the last village before #Souran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiI2k6JsqNQ …

BreakingNews
Syrian rebels recaptured #Atshan overnight, reportedly killing many #Assad troops and seizing arms.

Russian RuAF continues killing civilians and attacking FSA BUT nowhere is it seen that they directly attack Islamic State........

No ISIS victims in the massacre carried out by Russian warplanes in Albu Kamal
http://deirezzor24.net/?p=3283 Arabic

I'm laughing at these pro Assad trolls saying regime tactically withdrew from Morek when they left behind 10 tanks, 4 Shilka's and 5 BMPs

Killed in Aleppo by Syrian Rebels part of Iran Rev Guard leadership not sure is his name Ruhollah Qadrani or Qurbani

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Religious conman Patriarch Mar Ignatius Ephrem II blesses Assads mercenaries

If alawite elite or Russian/Iranians were smart they would have negotiated a long long time ago. Everyday alawite elite don't ditch Assad & don't negotiate means more deaths will rise in their community, more anger towards them
more dead Sunni majority, more anger, more sectarianism on all sides, more distrust, more hate, more radicalisation

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Wow that's a lot of regime casualties from one TOW in Morek. See this video
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=167561593592631&id=100010163746612 …

Deraa: Syrian Rebels make good progress in Manshiya front, capture Abu La'bin roundabout, Syriatel building & Banayat checkpoint

Deraa: Rebels also destroyed 3 floor building housing Assad forces which led to clashes where tank was destroyed & further 6 Assad forces

fighting has been ongoing in Deraa with Rebels fighting 2 fronts against Assad & ISIS. Read more
http://fb.me/7zA9RixGM

There were 2 officers & a military advisor all from the Iranian revolutionary guards killed in #Syria today
Their names are Mohsen Fanusi, Qadir Silq, and Ruhollah Qadrani

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CB--great comment--anything on this below????

Syria: according to oppo media the #Latakia military hospital has been closed for days now, storing #russia|n KIA's
http://sobsrvr.com/e0qufBxU
Nothing. The Russian 'enclave' south of Syria is completely 'shut down' - for all of regime's military personnel. So, no news are coming out.

But, meanwhile it's cristal clear that the 87th Brigade was at least mauled, if not completely destroyed at Tel Otman, Moarek and Atshan, the last two days, and this morning.

There are dozens of videos showing JAF insurgents with captured and destroyed T-72s, T-62s, T-55s, ZSU-23-4s, scores of NDF troops KIA, there are reports about top commanders of the 87th that were KIA... and there are reports about the JAF suffering 83 KIA too. Overall, no doubt this was really a big battle.

Guess, we have to wait for a few days to find out how many Hezbollah/Lebanon were KIA there too (probably until the JAF sends their bodies to Lebanon, or at least until they get those few recovered bodies back for funerals)... but it seems one of their brigades was mauled too.

Given at least a few Russians were around too, their casualties are unavoidable.

Makes me wonder: what other NDF formation is regime - and Russians - going to find to fill the gap now? Namely, there is presently no serious regime force left in between of Moarek and Hama...

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Footage
Seems,the #FSA already uses #Morek as new TOW base to target regime forces S of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7H7YOp1owU …

Footage
Destruction of pro-#Assad forces BMP by a #FSA TOW South of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSREvigdTs&feature=youtu.be …

Visual confirmation:
Rebels took #Atshan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJqAi_Fn9A …
#Hama #Syria
video find by @markito0171

News
#FSA forces increase attack on #AlMughayr, south of #KafrNabudah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySUaEjtgLVw …

Footage
#FSA brigade "Forsan al Haq" training and graduation ceremony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-5CFhM3Cs …

Breakingnews
Syrian rebels report #Assad army mass repositioning / withdrawal after capture of #Atshan.
- Building new front further south.

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This has ben a repeated problem with mainstream media both in their Ukraine and now Syrian reporting..--they simply fail to either proof read and or fact check.

Serious error by @Reuters n this story - Mustard gas was used by #ISIS v. rebels & civilians, not by rebels
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/

Russian propaganda will pick this up and pass it to their own Russian society as "see the rebels are not moderates" and never mention the story was basically wrong to begin with......and Reuters will not post a correction notice.

Everything Putin touches turns to dust, but his PR machine & useful Western idiots make him look like a winner.

BTW-----Reuters also carried the Russian "lie" story that they were meeting with the Syrian opposition in Abu Dhabi........
49 #Syria rebel groups deny recent reports claiming a planned 28-group meeting with #Russia in #AbuDhabi:

This is getting messy (= #Russia’s intention). Several FSA groups have had recent [undeclared] contact w. #Moscow & #Russia officials.

Example of the Russian divide an conquer approach to the Syrian opposition groups....
Interesting..........
Speaker of new #Syria'n Demokratic Forces #SDF denied #Russia'n support with airstrikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4SI241X3c …

Russia trying to create a climate of consensus on a parallel, diplomatic track, with no results so far --and their propaganda attempts are no helping at all.......
All #FSA groups statement denies any arrangements or plans to sit with the Russians.

Well all the RuAF bombing and killing civilians is not helping the Russians at all...........

From the FSA statement----
Statement says "Russians are committing massacres against Syrian ppl everyday & supporting criminal #Assad & this is nothing but propaganda"

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Statement of Ahrar al Sham about latest gains in north eastern #Hama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijandoUZu7Q&feature=youtu.be …

FSA-speaker claim regime lost 150-200 fighters in recent battles in northern #Hama towns

Hama Rebels taken Tell overlooking regime loyal town Ma`an
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.369175&lon=36.827202&z=14&m=b …

Damascus Moment when regime BMP hit by rebel RPG in #Jobar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqBITbPAfUE …

Aleppo TOW hit gathering of Shiite-forces in eastern outskirts of Al-Hadher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMjyhhm9oJw&feature=youtu.be …

Hama Car tour to Atshan village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCahCzOd2_0 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.408500&lon=36.819477&z=14&m=b …

FSA 46th Div beautiful TOW hit blow Shilka & kill several regime soldiers southern Morek.
https://youtu.be/A7H7YOp1owU

Jabhat al-Nusra recaptured tnaks battalion base in Sabiqiyah village southern #Aleppo.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.070192&lon=37.118468&z=15&m=b …

Russia'n airstrikes on Ghumam in #Latakia mountains & #Assad-forces try to retake village
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.674032&lon=36.008635&z=14&m=b …

Rebels take Atshan back & kill several regime soldiers including army operations commander.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.406611&lon=36.826086&z=14&m=b …

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Promo video of #FSA Forsan al Haq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-5CFhM3Cs …

Nusra phantom drone aerial footage for clashes in Tall Srour & al-Maqbara southern #Aleppo.
https://youtu.be/eloOemCeffU

Su-34 and Su-24 with 4x and 6x OFABs each, and a censored hardpoint (corrected)
pic.twitter.com/EXDUdlTvCB

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This has ben a repeated problem with mainstream media both in their Ukraine and now Syrian reporting..--they simply fail to either proof read and or fact check.

Serious error by @Reuters n this story - Mustard gas was used by #ISIS v. rebels & civilians, not by rebels
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/

Russian propaganda will pick this up and pass it to their own Russian society as "see the rebels are not moderates" and never mention the story was basically wrong to begin with......and Reuters will not post a correction notice.

Everything Putin touches turns to dust, but his PR machine & useful Western idiots make him look like a winner.

BTW-----Reuters also carried the Russian "lie" story that they were meeting with the Syrian opposition in Abu Dhabi........
49 #Syria rebel groups deny recent reports claiming a planned 28-group meeting with #Russia in #AbuDhabi:

This is getting messy (= #Russia’s intention). Several FSA groups have had recent [undeclared] contact w. #Moscow & #Russia officials.

Example of the Russian divide an conquer approach to the Syrian opposition groups....
Interesting..........
Speaker of new #Syria'n Demokratic Forces #SDF denied #Russia'n support with airstrikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4SI241X3c …

Russia trying to create a climate of consensus on a parallel, diplomatic track, with no results so far --and their propaganda attempts are no helping at all.......
All #FSA groups statement denies any arrangements or plans to sit with the Russians.

Well all the RuAF bombing and killing civilians is not helping the Russians at all...........

From the FSA statement----
Statement says "Russians are committing massacres against Syrian ppl everyday & supporting criminal #Assad & this is nothing but propaganda"

Appears that the Russian overall Syrian info war efforts are failing badly----

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The 2nd out of 74 Russian air strike videos geoocated to ISIS territory https://bellingcat.checkdesk.org/en/report/915
pic.twitter.com/6bxXuDBTLi

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Hama Rebels take over 4 villages 15km east of #Morek in past 12h

Hama Tour on Tel Skaik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvKykwDZn4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.413169&lon=36.790338&z=16&m=b …

Hama Rebels seized regime tank in Qubaybat Abu al Huda
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.371905&lon=36.856470&z=15&m=b …

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Weapons captured from SAA in Tell Sukayk
https://youtu.be/1UvkUVKntMQ
pic.twitter.com/Wwf5noF9kK

Regime´s losses in #Hama are as significant as gains in #Aleppo. Remember: all after #Russia, #Iran intervened.
pic.twitter.com/cH8ojRYLX7

What will #Russia, #Iran, #SAA do now being defeated in #Hama? Abandon #Aleppo offensive and go south? https://twitter.com/ArtWendeley/status/662164608757710848 …

Analysis #Map
Also Qubaybat Abu al Huda village, visually confirmed taken by Syrian rebels.
pic.twitter.com/pXnHu5EpF8

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Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins

Russia attempted to defend itself against allegations of bombing a hospital by using falsely dated images
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2015/11/04/fact-checking-russias-claim-that-it-didnt-bomb-a-hospital-in-syria/ …

Russia's Syria force grows to 4,000, have suffered combat casualties, U.S. officials say
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/us-mideast-crisis-russia-syria-idUSKCN0ST2G020151105#vB2lTUW53cev3G7M.99
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/us-mideast-crisis-russia-syria-idUSKCN0ST2G020151105#z1yWyzg5KECpuWfH.97 …

Assad army and Iran militias in northern #Hama is on the verge of collapse and losing ground faster than we thought spite the RuAF CAS.

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Hama Rebels shelling Lahaya highway checkpoint with heavy artillery
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.329604&lon=36.709528&z=16&m=b …

High rank General in #Iran's Revolutionary Guards "Sardar Celikar" killed in #Aleppo #Syria

SAA Major General Ayman al-Badran from Qardaha killed in Homs

1 tank & 3 technicals destroyed by rebels in southern countryside of #Aleppo

Hezbollah redeploying troops to #Damascus fronts #Syria http://mme.cm/BFAW00

Hama Video from Umm Haratayn after regime forces retreated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHTCuTMfr3k …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.387091&lon=36.862650&z=14&m=b …
Regime forces lost in 2 days: #Murek, Atshan, Sukayk, Umm Hartein, Qubaibat al-Hada, Janabirah, Tall Uthman, Tall Sukayk & Tall al-Taweel.

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Is Russia getting ready to engage the anti Assad forces with her own troops....??

Regime forces AFVs (w/ Russians?) gathering on M4 in NE #Latakia over last week. Perhaps staging for offensive up M4

New batch of Iranian IRGC officers bites the dust south #Aleppo.
Mohamad Fanousi
Qadir Saylaq
Rouhallh Qadarani

RuAF pounding Shekh Ahmed village near besieged Kuweyres airbase means they lost it or didn't even capture it as regime media claimed.

Rebels take Ghumam for the 2nd time in Turkman Mount rural #Latakia.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.675217&lon=36.007261&z=14&m=b …
https://youtu.be/LJGBYoQNNWY

Russian presence on at least 3 #Syria airbases visible on sat imagery as of last week. C'mon news orgs, buy from DG & publish

Despite successes, packing more forces into #Aleppo with supply lines so tenuous is another regime military blunder 2 regime convoys arrived in #Aleppo today for the first time since rebels cut supply line

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Only in #FreeSyria (not under #ISIS/#Assad)
Journalist Union meeting in an #Aleppo bunker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFU5Sa6YsLA …

Das and night, - probably - #Russian war planes target #KhanTuman Sout of #Aleppo with devilish weapons.
Video sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPA8TBGVLyM …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9hYVzr5ZSw …

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Andrew Roth @ARothWP

One Moscow analyst says like "going from a computer game into a terrifying reality" if plane crash is terror response to Syria airstrikes.

“It means that they’re taking information about a possible attack very, very seriously.” Russia halts Egypt flights https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/confusion-reigns-at-egyptian-airport-amid-british-evacuation/2015/11/06/6cb177c0-840c-11e5-8bd2-680fff868306_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_russiaplane6am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory …

Saudi support to rebels slows Assad attacks: pro-Damascus sources http://reut.rs/1kfemLG

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RuAF Su-24M with 2 X OFZAB 500 HE incendiary bombs under fuselage hardpoints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7_n170eUpg …

RuAF Su-30SM with 2 X OFAB-250-270 HE unguided bombs. Su-25SM with 4 X B8M1 (S-8) rocket's pods. First time

I'm not aware of a RuaF "rocket run " on rebels recently but use of rocket pods could mean RuAF Su-25s are going to provide more CAS

2X OFAB-250-270 HE under wing hardpoints. No need to say that OFZAB & OFAB are unguided bombs.

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Rebels destroyed T-72 tank in southern rural #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOWGd8IlFXM&feature=youtu.be …

Two regime army soldiers surrendered to Faylaq al-Sham after cornered in Jubb al-Ahmar clashes rural #Latakia.

Rebels dugout RuAF bomb crashes in Taman'a bcz chute didn't deploy
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.454710&lon=36.754181&z=14&m=b …
https://youtu.be/S4NL_BWmXTc

Unexploded Russian missile seems crash landed in rural #Hama. Any one can ID?

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Ali Shalikar, Iranian general, killed in Aleppo countryside battles..
Iran is fully engaged, men and commanders.

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Great insight into how Russian #propaganda wants Russians to see the West by @IrisovaOlga for @IntersectionPro
http://intersectionproject.eu/article/society/west-through-eyes-russians …

Metrojet Flight 9268 Crash Could Undermine Russian Public Supports for Syria Bombing Campaign by Pavel Felgenhauer
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44568&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=d7e974569daedb061c43a4b88ab63e10 …

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Info on "Vympel R-73/R-74 / AA-11 Archer" air to air missile used by #Russia(n) aircraft #Latakia
pic.twitter.com/RlCpfp0b9f

ATGMs are probably the main tank killer in Syria, but not the only one. This T-72AV was killed by an APFSDS round:
https://youtu.be/sbOaXkMv_LU?t=45s …

Previously unseen(?) T-72B near Palmyra yester in zvezda report.
A bunch were delivered a while ago, some now in Tadmur along with BTR-82As.

French APILAS rocket captured by IS in Deraa. Provided to southern based rebels by foreign supporters.
pic.twitter.com/Ec7jQKXu0m

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Footage
#RussianAirstrike hits #school in Hubūb ar Rīḩ, occupied #Homs province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geTev80wC7c …

Stunned how #RussianAirstrikes miss #ISIS by 200 miles, but hit #school basketball courts precisely ...

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News
The "Democratic Forces of #Syria" took 12 villages in #Hasaka fr.#ISIS w/US air cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPlOsy7qAZE …

Footage
The regime fired these, when rebels advanced around #TellSukayk.
Didn't stop them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwpLqFQV_rk …

Footage
Engine remains of another OTR-21 Tochka, fired by #Russia vs. a #Hama prov. town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4NL_BWmXTc …

Footage
Several A-10 #Thunderbolt II in action for #Kurds / vs. #ISIS in northern #Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxO55JMDDKE …

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Defection of #IS medical from #Raqqa National Hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrfKSwy-SM&feature=youtu.be …

Tour inside Sukayk village & hill #Hama shows regime army truck taken out with mortar.
https://youtu.be/UTG3VZUx4dQ

Tehran announces:Another general joins "the martyrs": Gen. #Sarem #Tahmasbi. Started career by killing policemen before Islamic Revolution.

UNDER the general rubric of........DUH?
U.S. intelligence agencies believe Assad regime failed to destroy all of its chemical weapons stockpiles
http://on.wsj.com/1NhjDcd

Also under the same rubric of ...Duh.....ever ask the question why MSM does not even attempt reporting on this?

More than 100 detention centres, 200 K jailed. Why is #Assad torture kept secret?

What's left of regime army in Atshan village #Hama. I don't see a tactical retreat here.
https://youtu.be/aoRtNCfUiAc

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URGENT: Mass arrests of Damascus Republican Palace guards after death of General Suleiman Ali Hakimah (personal bodyguard of Maher Al Assad)

Syrian Rebels still advancing on all fronts in Hama. I guess this is phase 1 of the Assad regime plan, to let them just keep going

Worth reading...........
"The Assad suburb": How Syria ghettoized the military to keep it loyal http://www.vox.com/2015/11/5/9671746/syria-assad-military-loyal?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=article%253Atop&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter … via @voxdotcom

Even in ISIS-controlled areas, the Assad regime still kills more than triple the number of those killed by ISIS.

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Worth reading in order to understand Obama's concept for foreign policy or lack thereof.......

Foreign Policy ‏@ForeignPolicy · Nov 4
EXCLUSIVE: Obama personally asked Riyadh to allow Iran into the faltering Syrian peace talks, @columlynch reports
http://atfp.co/1WxcU8x


MEMRI translates a speech by Abdullah al-Mehaysini, a Saudi jihadist in Syria, threatening Russia Syria https://www.facebook.com/14310874716/videos/10153681866679717/?__mref=message_bubble …

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Jabhat al-Nusra storm positions of rebel group led by al-Saroot accused of joining ISIL north Homs & capture weapons

Assad regime #Masasinah barrier takes heavy hits fr. moderate Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movmnt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFNruNB8D8 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6iCAUKRM4 …

Map - The Military Situation in North of #Hama | #Syria | November 6.
HD: http://archicivilians.com/2015/11/06/map-north-of-hama-syria-november-6/ …

Russian RuAF is still killing civilians and they do not seem to care---a la Grozny all over again....
Damascus Airstrikes on suburb #Douma killed a dozen residentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qJBDwnK_g …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLD0w_-UuQ&feature=youtu.be …

Tunnel blast at #Aleppo's citadel

Rebels killed 6 pro regime forces tried to storm Kafr Haddad in southern rural #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.924228&lon=37.076883&z=14&m=b …

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Jabhat al-Nusra storm positions of rebel group led by al-Saroot accused of joining ISIL north Homs & capture weapons

Assad regime #Masasinah barrier takes heavy hits fr. moderate Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movmnt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFNruNB8D8 …

Map - The Military Situation in North of #Hama | #Syria | November 6.
HD: http://archicivilians.com/2015/11/06/map-north-of-hama-syria-november-6/ …

Russian RuAF is still killing civilians and they do not seem to care---a la Grozny all over again....
Damascus Airstrikes on suburb #Douma killed a dozen residentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qJBDwnK_g …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLD0w_-UuQ&feature=youtu.be …

Tunnel blast at #Aleppo's citadel

Rebels killed 6 pro regime forces tried to storm Kafr Haddad in southern rural #Aleppo http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.924228&lon=37.076883&z=14&m=b …

Russian RuAF deliberately targeting with air strikes the Syrian Civil Defense recuse teams who are trying to recuse civilians hit by Russian air strikes...

Damascus 2nd airstrike on #Douma suburb -always tried to hit the rescue services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_iRwq3bdHU …

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Regime offensive in northern #Hama + #Russia' airstrikes
completely rolled back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymA9oT18vz4 …

From battlefield in southern #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLSZWAbpPLs …

BMP hit by old Metis ATMG in southern rural #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzdbCF4vE0&feature=youtu.be …
Russian/Syrian trolls got this video removed from YouTube........wonder why

Regime forces lost around 105 km² in less than 1 week in North #Hama.
HD: http://archicivilians.com/2015/11/06/map-north-of-hama-syria-november-6/ …

The moment Syrian media activist Ahmed Abu Hamza killed with artillery shell in Tall Sukayk.
https://youtu.be/ZNI3PvQYIFc

Iran militias backed by RuAF take Kafr Haddad village southern #Aleppo closing on al-Hadher.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.924506&lon=37.067699&z=13&m=b …

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Jabhat al-Nusra storm positions of rebel group led by al-Saroot accused of joining ISIL north Homs & capture weapons

Assad regime #Masasinah barrier takes heavy hits fr. moderate Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movmnt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFNruNB8D8 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6iCAUKRM4 …

Map - The Military Situation in North of #Hama | #Syria | November 6.
HD: http://archicivilians.com/2015/11/06/map-north-of-hama-syria-november-6/ …

Russian RuAF is still killing civilians and they do not seem to care---a la Grozny all over again....
Damascus Airstrikes on suburb #Douma killed a dozen residentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qJBDwnK_g …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLD0w_-UuQ&feature=youtu.be …

Tunnel blast at #Aleppo's citadel

Rebels killed 6 pro regime forces tried to storm Kafr Haddad in southern rural #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.924228&lon=37.076883&z=14&m=b …

JN is clashing with famous oppo figure, Abdul Baset Al-Sarout's group over #IS alleged alleigance claims they will provide evidence of the linkage.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsLwkbDpMOw …
Hama AB:
- 2306 MiG-21bis
- 2771 MiG-23ML
- 4000 MiG-23MLD
- 4005 MiG-23MLD

Syrian #Airforce MiG-23MLD purchased from Belarus in 2008.

RuAF Su-34 ( # 22) with 6 kill marks.

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News
Fresh 9K115-2 Metis-M reached moderate Syrian rebel South of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFPb2OSFCTE …
2 vids today pic.twitter.com/m11iYYEiUR

Crazy stuff.
#Assad trooper rather hides #outside the barrier as he knows, the rebel #hell_cannon is so precise.
pic.twitter.com/NITRGDhKMi

Syria IED attack on regime convoy #Hama - #Salamiyeh
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.060634&lon=36.924706&z=12&m=b …

The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef
This video, taken moments after an attack is worth a watch. https://www.facebook.com/SyriancivildefenseinDamascusCountryside1/videos/1112457115446263/ …

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Appears Russia is taking the IS declaration of war on them seriously now....

RT ✔ @RT_com
BREAKING: People evacuated from Ekaterinburg airport following bomb threat - reports
http://on.rt.com/6vsz
pic.twitter.com/V4e2Bf8ZNr

RT ✔ @RT_com
MORE: Planes being pulled away from airport, psngrs from arriving flights been kept on jets
http://on.rt.com/6vsz
pic.twitter.com/MSGuNIw3iT

[OUTLAW 09]

MORE RuAF air trikes on civilians--loses are high in this attack.
Russia'n airstrike hit factory in western outskirts of #Aleppo & set it on fire- lots of workers trapped inside

Assad “Syrian Arab Army”.
Foreign Legion.
Iraqi Division.
16 Shia terror groups fighting for Assad. #Syria

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News
Many #RussianAirstrikes on villages and rebel positions in northern #Hama today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyOPwzdxqo … pic.twitter.com/gExygDvc9B

Footage
Islamist rebels move captured regime BMP-1 from #Atshan on low loader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJXpP5cDaMo …
#Syria pic.twitter.com/aYlWMjSVgA

BREAKING---YouTube actively now supporting the Russian Syrian information warfare..........
Grand ...
#YouTube attack on Syrian rebel channels today. Two #FSA channels gone.

BUT has anyone seen YouTube blocking Russian propaganda--not a single time--why is an American company supporting the killing of civilians in Syria in the name of Russia?--interesting question.

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/11/chechen-group-says-took-spoils-from-russian-forces-in-syria.php

Chechen group says it took ‘spoils’ from Russian forces in Syria

By Caleb Weiss | November 6th, 2015 |


Ajnad Kavkaz, or Soldiers of the Caucasus, has released a short video claiming to show gear its fighters captured from Russian forces in Syria’s coastal Latakia province. The group is predominately comprised of Chechens and other jihadists from the North Caucasus.

The video, which was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, shows Hamza Shishani, Ajnad Kavkaz’s military emir, speaking to the camera. A militant to his right holds an alleged Russian bulletproof vest. “We were on the plains [likely referring to the Al Ghab plain near Latakia], when we found out that here in Latakia there was an operation,” Shishani says. “We arrived after we found out that Russians were attacking here and captured a hill. Praise be to Allah, the hill was taken back.”

Shishani also claims that the Russians retreated from the fighting, leaving behind weapons and gear. “Having thrown away their bulletproof vest and machine gun here,” Shishani says, “the Russians ran away.”

The image below shows Shishani holding the machine gun purportedly left behind by Russian forces:

[OUTLAW 09]

Terror beyond imagination.
10 civilians including 4 women & children killed in #Assad/#Putin airstrike on #Douma.
pic.twitter.com/NX7lr6SkEZ

VIDEO #Russia/#Putin bombs cloth factory #Aleppo #Syria killing many workers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpOmGbJt_E …
Rebel uniforms?
pic.twitter.com/8RwpPJZt3n

Douma today 07-11-2015
At least 14 martyred & 40 injured
https://youtu.be/Y1Zjqj0VuYQ

Russia continues killing civilians........

IMAGE of #Russia(n) bombed out AMBULANCE #Aleppo #Syria -#Putin now engaging in meaningless slaughter like #Assad pic.twitter.com/xwQHGHbvW4

Russia Bombing Syrians Displaced by War, Says Syrian Activist →
http://buff.ly/1WDjdqW @RaedFares4
pic.twitter.com/MAaLSGmaoP

[OUTLAW 09]

Terror beyond imagination.
10 civilians including 4 women & children killed in #Assad/#Putin airstrike on #Douma.
pic.twitter.com/NX7lr6SkEZ

VIDEO #Russia/#Putin bombs cloth factory #Aleppo #Syria killing many workers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpOmGbJt_E …
Rebel uniforms?
pic.twitter.com/8RwpPJZt3n

Douma today 07-11-2015
At least 14 martyred & 40 injured
https://youtu.be/Y1Zjqj0VuYQ

Russia continues killing civilians........

IMAGE of #Russia(n) bombed out AMBULANCE #Aleppo #Syria -#Putin now engaging in meaningless slaughter like #Assad pic.twitter.com/xwQHGHbvW4

Russia Bombing Syrians Displaced by War, Says Syrian Activist →
http://buff.ly/1WDjdqW @RaedFares4
pic.twitter.com/MAaLSGmaoP

To make it very clear: dead civilians in #Douma aren't 'collateral damage' but deliberately attacked. https://twitter.com/artwendeley/status/663021345052172289 …

Damascus Dozens of dead after airstrikes on suburbs Douma, Hamoria, Sakba and Harasta

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Senior Assad Commander of brigade 47 Talib Ibrahim Salamah killed in Hama by rebels
pic.twitter.com/53YaiQdTzD

More Iranian revo guards killed in Aleppo
1-Amir Hayoudi
2-Muhammad Hussain Aziz Ibadi
3-General Ali Shalyakar
pic.twitter.com/kJ8OmQomqR

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The scorched earth I was talking about from the russians in Ghmam area, #Latakia
Russians drop WP to burn large areas in the hills and mountains......

Highest losses for Assad in terms of manpower, tanks, heavy weapons & commanders has been AFTER Russian invasion
http://en.eldorar.com/node/599

Despite support of Russia Assad army has had biggest losses in October, highest since beginning of revolution

Spy Planes, Signal Jammers, and #Russia’s High-Tech War in #Syria
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/06/spy-planes-signal-jammers-and-putins-high-tech-war-in-syria/ …

FSA Fursan al-Haq blow regime army BMP in Azzan Mount southern #Aleppo with TOW missile.
https://youtu.be/OEGi5RGIyDU

Rebels take advance positions 2 km from Ma'an village north #Hama.
https://youtu.be/LWFCgzV_Qpg
https://youtu.be/B00HgZQZn_4

Damascus #Assad-foces monitor rebel hold villages in Barada valley with night view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNyNvbUK5g …

[OUTLAW 09]

Damascus Clashes continues in Marj al-Sultan area
Jaish al Islam destroyed T-72 tank
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.478632&lon=36.467228&z=14&m=b …

Damascus Republican Guards take picture above Wadi Barada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x20cBPW6snY … http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.605648&lon=36.203341&z=15&m=b

Victims of #Russia'n airstrikes on Abu Kamal bordertown #Syria/#Iraq
increase to more than 70 dead
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.453776&lon=40.927505&z=13&m=b …

Hama Rebels monitor barriers of #Assad-forces in Ma'an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFCgzV_Qpg …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.360986&lon=36.795359&z=14&m=b …

Latakia Rebels blow up caterpillar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7L36ZlsbGU …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.675217&lon=36.007261&z=15&m=b …

More videos from Saqba of children injured in the alleged Russian airstrike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltugN3bQiU …

From battlefield in southern #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6pAyMq8F4 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjbSQR22kOs …

Hama Ahrar al Sham shelling Ma`an with tank howitzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00HgZQZn_4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.359796&lon=36.793556&z=14&m=b …

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Damascus Clashes continues in Marj al-Sultan area
Jaish al Islam destroyed T-72 tank
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.478632&lon=36.467228&z=14&m=b …

Damascus Republican Guards take picture above Wadi Barada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x20cBPW6snY … http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.605648&lon=36.203341&z=15&m=b

Victims of #Russia'n airstrikes on Abu Kamal bordertown #Syria/#Iraq
increase to more than 70 dead
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.453776&lon=40.927505&z=13&m=b …

Hama Rebels monitor barriers of #Assad-forces in Ma'an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFCgzV_Qpg …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.360986&lon=36.795359&z=14&m=b …

Latakia Rebels blow up caterpillar
Hama Rebels blow up caterpillar with Metis ATGM south of #Morek
in Point 4 barrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7L36ZlsbGU …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.675217&lon=36.007261&z=15&m=b …

More videos from Saqba of children injured in the alleged Russian airstrike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltugN3bQiU …

From battlefield in southern #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6pAyMq8F4 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjbSQR22kOs …

Hama Ahrar al Sham shelling Ma`an with tank howitzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00HgZQZn_4 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.359796&lon=36.793556&z=14&m=b …

#Assad-foces monitor rebel hold villages in Barada valley with night view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNyNvbUK5g …

Hama JaF seized 2 positions near Ma'an

Footage
Pro-#Assad forces recaptured #Ghmam in #Latakia after fully destroying it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adS7QtkCsV8 …

Another day, another #school basketball court, destroyed by a #RussianAirstrike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6xHoQt-hZc …

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Further destroying #Syria, a #RussianAirstrike hit a #Deiri_Group warehouse in #KafrJoum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpOmGbJt_E …

The warehouse was used to store #AID for #IDPs and the local population!
#Putin's/#Assad's #ScorchedEarth campaign.

Footage
Ahrar al-Sham deployed a 2S1 to the front near #Maan village.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00HgZQZn_4 …

News
Syrian rebels start shelling of "fortress" #Maan from 2 km distance and two sides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFCgzV_Qpg …

Another #school, hit by a "#RussianAirstrike" (Qassioun news agency) in rural #Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfRzEZf7hs …

Footage
An #Assad air force Mil Mi-24 drops a bomb on #Talbiseh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pdjfb0iFK4 …

VIDEO: Sham Front shell enemy positions in northern #Aleppo with a hell cannon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPDJ3k1NZZ8 …

Suspected Russian air raids kill 23 civilians in #Douma #Syria: monitor - AFP http://u.afp.com/ZfmX

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Further destroying #Syria, a #RussianAirstrike hit a #Deiri_Group warehouse in #KafrJoum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpOmGbJt_E …

The warehouse was used to store #AID for #IDPs and the local population!
#Putin's/#Assad's #ScorchedEarth campaign.

Footage
Ahrar al-Sham deployed a 2S1 to the front near #Maan village.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00HgZQZn_4 …

News
Syrian rebels start shelling of "fortress" #Maan from 2 km distance and two sides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFCgzV_Qpg …

Another #school, hit by a "#RussianAirstrike" (Qassioun news agency) in rural #Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfRzEZf7hs …

Footage
An #Assad air force Mil Mi-24 drops a bomb on #Talbiseh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pdjfb0iFK4 …

VIDEO: Sham Front shell enemy positions in northern #Aleppo with a hell cannon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPDJ3k1NZZ8 …

Suspected Russian air raids kill 23 civilians in #Douma #Syria: monitor - AFP http://u.afp.com/ZfmX

Ahrar al Sham video announcing start of new offensive in Aleppo

Syrian AF home made bombs being made.......
only explanation was 'because they are made in small local repair shops'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coneg7fY5W0 …

I've seen this Ru state TV video and according to journo: "Bombs are made in car repair shops using actual OFAB blueprints".

Rusted OFABs mounted in SyAF's Mig-23, Hama airbase, #Syria

[Azor]

I've noticed pro-Assad fighters going into action with yellow armbands - perhaps a suggestion from Russia given their recent experience in Donbas?

[OUTLAW 09]

If one takes the time to track the actions of the Iraqi shia militias inside Iraq after they have kicked out IS from Sunni towns and villages--they basically then destroy the town, rape pillage and plunder as well--nothing is being said by the US and the central Iraqi government has done nothing to reign them in as well.

THEN they actions inside Syria against Syrian Sunnis resisting Assad should not come as a total surprise...........

Graphic!
"Moderate" pro-#Assad terrorists burn rebel fighter with petrol south of #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2TOv3rGjB0 …

These are Iraqi troops from "Harakat Hezbollah al‐Nujaba". Location is near Abtin.

The so called Syrian Arab Army is composed now of Russian troops, Iranian IRGC, Iraqi Shia militias and Shia from a total of 12 countries.

The SAA should be renamed the Syrian/Russian mercenary army----SRMA.

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Notice that the western MSM and all western leaders have collectively not said a single statement, comment, or press release concerning the Russian AF using cluster munitions on residential districts or the use of chemical weapons being dropped on civilians or the targeted killing of civil defense personnel attempting to rescue trapped/injured civilians or the air strikes on schools and hospitals INSTEAD of Islamic State.

Being covered actually by social media and that is about it.......ever wonder why??

Russia'n airforce dropped cluster bombs on densely populated area in #Aleppo city for the first time /Jabal Badro district tonight

US kills more ISIS fighters than Russia
* Russia kills mainly Rebel/Opposition fighters, not ISIS
pic.twitter.com/udKnXdUkrm

[CrowBat]

The SAA should be renamed the Syrian/Russian mercenary army----SRMA....like I wrote months ago, 'SAA' stands for 'Soleimani's Afghan Army'...


I've noticed pro-Assad fighters going into action with yellow armbands - perhaps a suggestion from Russia given their recent experience in Donbas?
It's an ID-related practice introduced by Hezbollah already during the battle of Qussayr, in early 2014.

Some of insurgents are wearing similar bands in other colours too, meanwhile.

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Regime armored losses in 6 weeks of Russian intervention in Syria:
59 Hama
31 Aleppo
12 Damascus
9 Homs
5 Latakia
4 Qunaitera
2 Idlib
1 Dara

Aleppo Shiite militias try to advance from Kafr Haddad to Tall Mamu & Aziziyah http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.932220&lon=37.043924&z=14&m=b …

#Damascus Regime losses in lastest battle in Marj al-Sultan area
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.475626&lon=36.465683&z=14&m=b …

Nusra captured 3 #Iran'ian fighters near Khan Tuman in southern rural #Aleppo

Clashes btw Nusra & #Assad-forces in Jinan 8km SE of #Hama city
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.084939&lon=36.841793&z=14&m=b …

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Great Der Spiegel article in German of the sheer destruction by the Russian AF in Syria that the public still knows nothing about....................

Russische Piloten kennen keine Tabus. Zerstrung unter Ausschluss der Weltffentlichkeit.
Ungeahntes Ausmass an Zerstrung. Meine Reportage aus #Aleppo im SPIEGEL.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96372925/Ungeahntes

Also in German.........
EU - #Iran talks. All parties but Iran understand there's no solution for #Syria without #Assad's departure. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/iran-bleibt-diktator-assad-treu-trotz-draengen-der-eu-a-1061659.html …

[OUTLAW 09]

Valid point..........

#Iran's, #Russia's notion of #Assad rerunning in elections is dangerous. Would we accept #IS if voted for in Anbar?
pic.twitter.com/aY6Ab7WMCg

Departure of #Assad isn't the solution in itself. But removing the main source of terror in #Syria is crucial.
pic.twitter.com/PiHhe4UUlr

Interesting historical read on the Soviet Union and Syrian......
Moscow was a guarantor of Syria's sovereignty from the very start http://espionagehistoryarchive.com/2015/11/07/mis

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Russian troops/mercenaries near and or on the frontlines.........so much for another Putin lie "no Russian ground troops will be involved in the fighting....."

New @RuslanLeviev report suggests Russian soldiers/volunteers near Syria frontline [Eng]:
http://ruslanleviev.livejournal.com/44827.html pic.twitter.com/fNmV1cOZfr

What War are Soldiers from the 34th Brigade of the Russian Army Going to?:
https://informnapalm.org/en/syria-what-war-are-soldiers-from-the-34th-brigade-of-the-russian-army-going-to/ …
pic.twitter.com/MQLO6V9G3V

[OUTLAW 09]

Regime armored losses in 6 weeks of Russian intervention in Syria:
59 Hama
31 Aleppo
12 Damascus
9 Homs
5 Latakia
4 Qunaitera
2 Idlib
1 Dara

Aleppo Shiite militias try to advance from Kafr Haddad to Tall Mamu & Aziziyah http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.932220&lon=37.043924&z=14&m=b …

#Damascus Regime losses in lastest battle in Marj al-Sultan area
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.475626&lon=36.465683&z=14&m=b …

Nusra captured 3 #Iran'ian fighters near Khan Tuman in southern rural #Aleppo

Clashes btw Nusra & #Assad-forces in Jinan 8km SE of #Hama city
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.084939&lon=36.841793&z=14&m=b …

Here's the full video of the youngster pulled from the rubble of a building reportedly bombed by Russia in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7DSQ8r7QE …

Russia came to Syria and the result is exactly according to expectations: Death and suffering on a grand scale. https://twitter.com/MannfredNikolai/status/663286542098649088 …

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MAP: Informative infographic shows ongoing proxy wars in the Middle East. - @magorient
HD: http://lecourrierdumaghrebetdelorient.info/focus/arab-world-maps-a-proxy-war-in-the-middle-east/?utm_content=bufferfafbf.com#prettyPhoto …

VIDEO: #Russian spy plane flying over Latakia #Syria -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N8V4TOgsDk …

Flashback to Nov 7 2013: Senior Hizbollah commander to Time: if we dn't defend the Syrian regime, it'd fall in 2hrs.
http://world.time.com/2013/11/07/taking-the-lead-hizballah-girds-for-key-syria-battle-on-assads-behalf/ …

Pro-Hezbollah say their field commander Ali Balhas killed with IED southern #Aleppo #Syria.

Syrian Rebels shelling Hama military airbase...

Assad regime Generals, Colonels, Pilots & Officers killed recently by rebels in #Syria
http://all4syria.info/Archive/267581

[OUTLAW 09]

Notice the similarities between Russian military in eastern Ukraine and the Russian military in Syria......poor to absolutely no OPSEC..........

Tanks, artillery and "selfie soldiers" - it's Ukraine all over again. Russia's activities on the ground in Syria:
https://citeam.org/russia-s-activities-on-the-ground-in-syria …

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Carter:"Russia's throwing gas on dangerous fire,prolonging Syrian war that fuels very extremism it claims to oppose"
pic.twitter.com/6OpFrkLfbs

Russia is putting world peace at risk, says Pentagon chief Ash Carter
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/08/russia-is-putting-world-peace-at-risk-says-pentagon-chief-ash-carter …
via @guardian

Clarification of the #Deiri_Group plant bombing near Aleppo yesterday by @SyriaCharity at my request.
Merci! pic.twitter.com/blKRSdHsNx

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Huge explosion rock SE entrance of #Homs city
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34.695138&lon=36.733925&z=16&m=b …

A tribal militia in Deir Ezzor, believed to be sponsored by ISIS, has almost collapsed as members left for Turkey/EU
http://deirezzor24.net/?p=3303

Sarout's friends say he's still in his area and denied he joined ISIS

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter: Gulf Arabs need to get in the fight against ISIS and Iran http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/11/ashton-carter-gulf-iran-isis/414591/ …
by @JeffreyGoldberg

[OUTLAW 09]

VIDEO: Noureddine Zanki Movement strike #SAA machine gun position in #Aleppo countryside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Fcg6c--co …

[OUTLAW 09]

AND Putin does not already have a jihadi problem.............so what is he doing in Syria......?

875 Russian law enforcement officers were killed in Northern Caucasus since 2010
https://slon.ru/posts/59270

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Hama Reports that rebels try to storm now Ma`an town now
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.356366&lon=36.798019&z=14&m=b …

If regime walks through Icarda from Aziziyah situation will can be dangreous.

SYRIA: As of the 6th November at least 42 Iranian troops have been killed in #Syria. Number is likely higher.

SAA reportedly make further advances against rebels in southern #Aleppo, #Syria.

YPG: Turkish army attacked our positions in #TalAbyad on November 8th between 02:00 and 03:00 local time with heavy weapons -

RUAF An-124 82038 noted on southern Caspian Sea and heading to #Latakia
http://www.flightradar24.com/RFF8068/7ebe824
pic.twitter.com/RZwj1koPfd

Small # of serving & former Russian soldiers geolocated nr Hama, Aleppo & Homs, suggesting operation stretches well beyond air campaign.

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US Defense Secretary Ash Carter: "The US isn’t here for a war. But if #Russia wants one, we’re ready."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alimwatkins/carter-to-top-military-brass-we-are-prepared-to-deal-with-ru?utm_term=.mvGnKZlln2#.eqqKNWAAKd …

Hearing from multiple sources that State Dept and White House were very not happy about this piece....enjoy!
http://observer.com/2015/11/obama-fails-to-fight-putins-propaganda-machine/ …

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian troops and equipment at Adler Airport and Novorossiysk harbour, reportedly bound for Syria.

#Syria #RuAF IL-20 Coot ELINT over Lattakia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N8V4TOgsDk …

RuAF airstrike geolocated near Suran, Aleppo
https://youtu.be/K7_Bx_TW_9Q http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.266309&lon=37.361101&z=17&m=b …

Jund al-Aqsa releases lengthy video on taking of Morek in northern Hama http://justpaste.it/ouo9

Iraqi militia Harakat al-Nujaba report on ops today, primarily in south Aleppo countryside http://alnujaba.com/3761-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%20%D9%85%D9%81%D8%B 5%D9%84%20%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%20% D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82 %D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B 3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9% 83%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8 %A1%20%D9%81%D9%8A%20%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A 7%20%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85.html …

Slain IRGC commander Hamadani: #Syria army "conceited," didn't initially want Iran help
https://pandagulu.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/top-commander-shed-light-on-irgc-role-and-differences-with-assads-baath-party-before-his-demise-in-syria/?preview=true&preview_id=277&preview_nonce=ad6501b132 … fascinating by @pandagulu

As of the 6th November at least 42 Iranian troops have been killed in #Syria. Number is likely higher.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian troops and equipment at Adler Airport and Novorossiysk harbour, reportedly bound for Syria.

#Syria #RuAF IL-20 Coot ELINT over Lattakia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N8V4TOgsDk …

RuAF airstrike geolocated near Suran, Aleppo
https://youtu.be/K7_Bx_TW_9Q http://wikimapia.org/#lat=36.266309&lon=37.361101&z=17&m=b …

Jund al-Aqsa releases lengthy video on taking of Morek in northern Hama http://justpaste.it/ouo9

Iraqi militia Harakat al-Nujaba report on ops today, primarily in south Aleppo countryside http://alnujaba.com/3761-%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%20%D9%85%D9%81%D8%B 5%D9%84%20%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%20% D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82 %D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B 3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9% 83%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8 %A1%20%D9%81%D9%8A%20%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A 7%20%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85.html …

Slain IRGC commander Hamadani: #Syria army "conceited," didn't initially want Iran help
https://pandagulu.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/top-commander-shed-light-on-irgc-role-and-differences-with-assads-baath-party-before-his-demise-in-syria/?preview=true&preview_id=277&preview_nonce=ad6501b132 … fascinating by @pandagulu


Reference US TOWs.......

US didn't provide Ukraine w lethal aid bc it would've 'provoked' Putin, but it isn't provocative to supply lethal weapons in Syria. Got it.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian soldiers geolocated near Aleppo, Homs and Hama. Russia extending its military campaign beyond air strikes
https://apple.news/AwxAZaskMTG-EL_amUu5yOg …

There's something rather special about seeing the word "geolocated" in a Reuters headline
http://reut.rs/1OxaRNl

Video from the "New Syrian Army", not a group I recognise but they have plenty of US gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMIR4CEVZ4 …

More equipment of the clearly US armed "New Syria Army"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMIR4CEVZ4 …

I think this is one hell of an accelerated program...at least the toys look new

This will be joining the Kurdish-lead Syrian Dem Army. Some U.S dude in charge said: "NO MENTION OF ASSAD IN 10 min VID!"

Training not in Syria:"our training will slow us to enter Syria and its fights any time now". Leader says they're

Secular army but starts speech by praising Allah. Says enemy is "Daesh and all other terrorist groups". No mention of Assad

Mk14 EBR, shooting from inside the room and not hanging on a window...at least these are better trained

[OUTLAW 09]

More barrel bombs dropped on Daraya. Every darn day.
http://youtu.be/TW-9ebKVB_0

NOT a single comment from any western leader about one of the true reasons for thousands of Syrian refugees.

FSA shell regime forces in Khan Touman with rockets. #Aleppo
http://youtu.be/bSmKBzo-7hg

Weekly summary of revolutionary forces activities across #Syria from @RFS_mediaoffice:
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1f76b208716e924aa72bc2632/files/151106_english.pdf …

Several RuAF attacks on Ma'arat al-Numman marketplace in #Idlib killed 9 people including a boy.
pic.twitter.com/MmfUJqjRJe

South Aleppo: Syrian Rebels repelled pro Assad foreign fighters progress towards old court house & killed 7

JAN captures 3 strategic hills in Southern Aleppo
http://ow.ly/UmM9b

Meanwhile ISIS is advancing around Sheikh Najjar industrial city & pushing regime back from Kuweires airbase

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian soldiers geolocated near Aleppo, Homs and Hama. Russia extending its military campaign beyond air strikes
https://apple.news/AwxAZaskMTG-EL_amUu5yOg …

There's something rather special about seeing the word "geolocated" in a Reuters headline
http://reut.rs/1OxaRNl

Video from the "New Syrian Army", not a group I recognise but they have plenty of US gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMIR4CEVZ4 …

More equipment of the clearly US armed "New Syria Army"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMIR4CEVZ4 …

I think this is one hell of an accelerated program...at least the toys look new

This will be joining the Kurdish-lead Syrian Dem Army. Some U.S dude in charge said: "NO MENTION OF ASSAD IN 10 min VID!"

Training not in Syria:"our training will slow us to enter Syria and its fights any time now". Leader says they're

Secular army but starts speech by praising Allah. Says enemy is "Daesh and all other terrorist groups". No mention of Assad

Mk14 EBR, shooting from inside the room and not hanging on a window...at least these are better trained

81mm M889 Mortar Cartridges from the New Syria Army video https://youtu.be/VpMIR4CEVZ4?t=280 …
pic.twitter.com/yCzoj5PC89

[OUTLAW 09]

More barrel bombs dropped on Daraya. Every darn day.
http://youtu.be/TW-9ebKVB_0

NOT a single comment from any western leader about one of the true reasons for thousands of Syrian refugees.

FSA shell regime forces in Khan Touman with rockets. #Aleppo
http://youtu.be/bSmKBzo-7hg

Weekly summary of revolutionary forces activities across #Syria from @RFS_mediaoffice:
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1f76b208716e924aa72bc2632/files/151106_english.pdf …

Several RuAF attacks on Ma'arat al-Numman marketplace in #Idlib killed 9 people including a boy.
pic.twitter.com/MmfUJqjRJe

South Aleppo: Syrian Rebels repelled pro Assad foreign fighters progress towards old court house & killed 7

JAN captures 3 strategic hills in Southern Aleppo
http://ow.ly/UmM9b

Meanwhile ISIS is advancing around Sheikh Najjar industrial city & pushing regime back from Kuweires airbase

Haaretz.com ✔ @haaretzcom
Social media shows Russian soldiers in multiple Syrian locations, contradicts Russian claims
http://dlvr.it/ChBdbK
pic.twitter.com/66q39CozgA

Beyond the airstrikes: #Russia's activities on the ground in #Syria
http://ruslanleviev.livejournal.com/44827.html by @CITeam_en
pic.twitter.com/UatfPpcS01

Interesting variant of a Russian LMV Lynx in #Syria, maybe TACP or FAO model?
pic.twitter.com/9PxkqDt2Ze

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Assad using #UNHCR Supplied Relief supplies for his troops #Latakia

For those saying that images are photoshopped here is the video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT_IdvTfXc0 …

[OUTLAW 09]

Breaking Defense: US must do more to deter ‘reckless' #Russia, Farkas

http://uatoday.tv/politics/breaking-defense-us-must-do-more-to-deter-reckless-russia-farkas-529760.html …
pic.twitter.com/klsmThn2CN

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian soldiers geolocated near Aleppo, Homs and Hama. Russia extending its military campaign beyond air strikes
https://apple.news/AwxAZaskMTG-EL_amUu5yOg …

There's something rather special about seeing the word "geolocated" in a Reuters headline
http://reut.rs/1OxaRNl

Video from the "New Syrian Army", not a group I recognise but they have plenty of US gear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMIR4CEVZ4 …

More equipment of the clearly US armed "New Syria Army"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMIR4CEVZ4 …

Twitter account of the mysterious "New Syrian Army" apparently: @SYNA2015

I think this is one hell of an accelerated program...at least the toys look new

This will be joining the Kurdish-lead Syrian Dem Army. Some U.S dude in charge said: "NO MENTION OF ASSAD IN 10 min VID!"

Training not in Syria:"our training will slow us to enter Syria and its fights any time now". Leader says they're

Secular army but starts speech by praising Allah. Says enemy is "Daesh and all other terrorist groups". No mention of Assad

Mk14 EBR, shooting from inside the room and not hanging on a window...at least these are better trained

Announcement of the formation of the New Syria Army. An affiliate of the ADF (Authenticity & Development Front).
pic.twitter.com/Ws68xsaFqo

Statement from "Syria's New Army"
http://justpaste.it/SYNA2015
@SYNA2015 pic.twitter.com/O6NrQdx4lb

Announcement of New Syrian Army, will fight under SDF, will be able to call in airstrikes.

MORE: Another video released by the "New Syrian Army" showing off US & NATO weaponry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuYE2_ne8EU …

Twitter account of the mysterious "New Syrian Army" apparently: @SYNA2015

[OUTLAW 09]

RuAF jets spotted over #Idlib after carried out attacks on Saraqib and Ma'arat al-Numman killing at least 11 people.

Rebels take back Tulaylat village lost to Iran militias trying to besiege al-Hadher south #Aeppo.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.969914&lon=37.029634&z=14&m=b …

Rebels intensify shelling on regime army positions in Ma'an village #Hama. Possible ground attack soon.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.358676&lon=36.794930&z=14&m=b …

RuAF cluster munition dropped on western rural #Aleppo last night.