Iranians taking photo with ruines of Syria,in Tehran International Book Fair's "Shrine Defenders" section,9 may 2016
Yesterday.....
BreakingNews
#Assad forces in #Quneitra resumed offensive operations, tried to advance on #Masharah today.
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Iranians taking photo with ruines of Syria,in Tehran International Book Fair's "Shrine Defenders" section,9 may 2016
Yesterday.....
BreakingNews
#Assad forces in #Quneitra resumed offensive operations, tried to advance on #Masharah today.
CrowBat.....came in late last nightQuote:
Originally Posted by CrowBat
Iranian #MahanAir - @Airbus' new darling - flying terrorists & IRGC to #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLBvFI4s0ww …
Seems they forgot the other item you mentioned...body bags....which I suspect is the actual reason after the heavy loses over the last five days...
Especially if this comment is correct.....
Former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards: We have lost 1200 fighters in #Syria since 2012 - http://www.masralarabia.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D
Appears there are indeed six Iranian regular troops that were captured in the recent fighting in southern Aleppo.....
The only problem is it also appears JaN and JaF also seem to not have them....so where did they disappear to.....???
Iranian lawmaker says up to six Iranian personnel captured In #Syria
http://www.rferl.org/content/syria-i.../27724628.html …
Chairman of the defense committee in the Iranian Parliament, Ismail Kosari - Syrian armed opposition captured as many as 6 Iranian soldiers.
Yup. Body-bags were subsequently delivered straight to Aleppo - by SyAAF Il-76s - and together with another load of Iraqi PMUs...Quote:
Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Seems the IRGC just can't get enough troops to do anything meaningful in Syria... this is seriously starting to remind me of certain battles from Iran-Iraq War...
CrowBat...appears the Russians are going to be needing their 2 Bns they sent to Palmyra in the coming days.....
IS taunting #Russia: after seizing Sha'er gasfield, now storming Tiyas Airbase along main supply route to #Palmyra.
ISIS is attacking the #Assad-held #Tiyas T4 air base in eastern #Homs prov.
Success could cut-off Palmyra.
SyAAF carry out airstrikes north of Tiyas Airbase where #IS is trying to advance towards & has taken control of the old tank battalion base
ISIS It begins this morning Battle for control of AlTifor (Tiyas T4) airbase and controls the battalion beside it.
#Syria #Palmyra ,Apr 10
Some pro-#Assad media says the assault comes from the south but this is less likely, IMHO
CrowBat....it appears that now IS and JaN and the other FSA fronts are constantly rotating the pressure points with their attacks which then allows them to pick and chose the correct fight and leaves the Iranians and Russia exhausted in trying to keep up with the attack pace.....this was a typical QJBR/AQI then IS tactic against the Iraqi and US up through 2010.
What we learned in Iraq is that this tactic actually conserves your fighting strength for the long haul as it stretches the defenders as it take fewer fighters to start an operation just to draw attention and troops away from other areas....then you pull back to the starting point to start all over again in another direction...all the while inflicting damage during the attacks...a not so subtle form of attrition.
Idlib 2 dozen dead after airstrikes on #Binnish town market
NSA blew up another ISIS VBIED seized near Al Tanf causing massive explosion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afkf2eE-9iQ …
Drone view of 2nd tank taken out with a #TOW by Sham Front in S. #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PKTXByLGUg …
3rd #ATGM hit in a row by Sham Front in S. #Aleppo taking out a moving tank with a #TOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxHQgrIPQAM …
Rare double tap w/ #ATGM vs pro-Regime forces in S. #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQkqmjn9g0 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl74H_YVcho …
Deadly #ATGM strike by Sham Front vs pro-Regime fighters carrying dead comrade in S. #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl74H_YVcho …
Pro-#Assad militia ATGM team takes out several rebel armoured vehicles near #KhanTuman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfScePPOM34 …
CrowBat.....what do you judge the Iranian fighting morale to be now going into the five days of heavy loses of men and material in southern Aleppo????
If they are now bringing in Iraqi Shia militia then that tells me they are getting low on actual combat ready and willing to fight Iranians....
CrowBat.....looks like Sham Front got a clean TOW kill on a Russian T90A .........and it was a moving target....coverage by a drone....
1st ever combined #TOW shot / #drone aftermath video by #FSA in #Humayra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PKTXByLGUg …
Footage
#Russian T-90A taken out by #US BGM-71, 10 kilometers south of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PKTXByLGUg …
Assad bombers hit near #Arihah today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM_Fx8P9Os …
ISIS infiltrated the "research area" of #Azaz last night, resulting in clashes with the #FSA and 3 killed terrorists + more wounded.
A New MANPADS Appears in Syria: The QW-1/Misagh-1 via @bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...05/10/draft-1/
Idlib Bombed
-Water, ice, & bread projects by Syrians refusing to leave
https://youtu.be/hvgDPgD7APU
From.....
Not a spy @finriswolf
Sat-imgs show 2 large convoys of trucks loading @ #Russia ships @ Port Latakia - entering mountain(?) outside #Qardahah 35.438545, 36.059613
New Sat imagery shows new (semi-hidden) activity/construction at North-side #Latakia Navy base - Port Al Beida 35.609660, 35.766673
ISIS : Sat imagery shows #ISIS preparing #Mosul & #Raqqah for heavy urban & siege warfare at accelerated pace over last month
Alleged Syrian hacker sympathetic to Damascus headed to U.S.: source
http://reut.rs/1T1BmrL
Kyle W. Orton @KyleWOrton
Whatever #Russia is doing in #Syria, "withdrawal" it ain't. #Palmyra's under a virtual Russian ground occupation.
http://cnn.it/1UN8I2n
BreakingReport
10 killed, 20 injured in air raid on popular market in #Binnish.
BUT WAIT...this could not have happened as both Russia and US announced agreements that such things would not be happening....WELL so much for Russian "influence" on the Assad AF.....just as the Russians "claim they have little influence on Russian mercenaries in eastern Ukraine....
Indeed. After the recent defeat of the Tiger Force, it seems there's a 'new boss in town' on the Daesh side: some new commander around, who's quite good at manoeuvring on the local terrain.Quote:
Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Guess, the likelyhood of Russians getting involved is increasing - and then it's going to be interesting to see if they can match the Daesh.
Yup. Daesh is ex-AQI, so they were fighting you that way back then in Iraq too.Quote:
CrowBat....it appears that now IS and JaN and the other FSA fronts are constantly rotating the pressure points with their attacks which then allows them to pick and chose the correct fight and leaves the Iranians and Russia exhausted in trying to keep up with the attack pace.....this was a typical QJBR/AQI then IS tactic against the Iraqi and US up through 2010.
What we learned in Iraq is that this tactic actually conserves your fighting strength for the long haul as it stretches the defenders as it take fewer fighters to start an operation just to draw attention and troops away from other areas....then you pull back to the starting point to start all over again in another direction...all the while inflicting damage during the attacks...a not so subtle form of attrition.
Was about to post that video and 'congratulate' for the first T-90 knocked out (note Shtora boxes at the front of the turret) but you were faster. ;)Quote:
CrowBat.....looks like Sham Front got a clean TOW kill on a Russian T90A .........and it was a moving target....coverage by a drone....
Anyway, I think that Faylaq ash-Sham actually knocked out two T-90s there.
Could be there was a sort of armour battle - JAN's T-72s vs IRGC's T-90s, then ATGMs became involved: Faylaq knocked out two, IRGC knocked out two.
Nope. Unless somebody starts raining CWs upon them, one should never expect morale of IRGC troops to drop.Quote:
Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
They might get exhausted, literaly 'run out of steam', be on brink of starvation or dehydration. That can happen.
But, I never heard about them having 'morale problems' (except due to Iraqi CWs).
Mind:
- a) Most of Iranians the IRGC is sending to Syria are dead sure they're saving Sayyida Zaynab Shrine, and 'fighting Daesh'. It might sound 'stupid' to us, but it's extremely important to them - and there's no way one can convince them about anything else. 'My Imam said so, period'.
- b) This assessment is not including various of IRGC's surrogates - like Iraqi, Afghan or Pakistani Shi'a. No clue about them.
Rumour has it, Daesh has shot down a helicopter near Tiyas AB (T.4)...
So far 'not confirmed' though.
UPDATE: and now it's a Russian jet (in Arabic)
Footage shows the moment an airstrike hits a mosque in the town of Binnish in northern Idlib, #Syria.
After heavy shelling #Hezbollah try to enter #Zabadani now
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33...04507&z=13&m=b …
Seems #Zabadani - #Kefraya+#Fuah -truce ending now
Clashes with #Hezbollah in both areas
Multiple #Assad artillery shells hit #Zabadani near #Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiMs7oluMY4 …
Iran violated the local truce between rebels and the regime for the besieged towns weeks ago when its C-130 dropped tons of arms over them.
News about shooting down a helicopter belonging to #SAA in the vicinity of T4 airport by #ISIS and the clashes are still continuing #Palmyra
Iran-ian revolutionary guards commanders killed in #Syria last week are buried in Mashad
Next #Iran'ian Revolutionary Guard killed in southern #Aleppo
Seems #Homs -> #Palmyra road cut off by #IslamicState
#Damascus -> #Palmyra too (long time)
#Russia'n army here units under siege?
Will #Assad & #Putin pay now for their deal w/#ISIS,letting them leave #Palmyra w/most of their heavy arms in March?
Assad air force bombs on #Duma east of #Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHE8JYYYY0U …
BREAKING
Massacre in #Binish town aftermath #RUSSIA airstrikes
10 Martyrs, several injured
#Idlib cs #Syria MAY 10
After days of air strikes on #Binnish with more than 20 civilian victims, rebels resume shelling nearby #Kefraya and #Fuah.
Footage
#Binnish today.
Giant bomb falls on market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5DtOIK-iA …
TOWs and Russian ATGMs are literally flying everywhere today in Syria.....
Russian T90A even hit and badly damaged....
Tank number 4 being blown up by Jabhat al-Shamiyah (#FSA), at Khan Tuman this time
https://youtu.be/FDXkJ7hxfXY
Jabhat al-Shamiyah (#FSA) rebels took out a regime tank in southern #Aleppo
https://youtu.be/PxHQgrIPQAM
#Syria: Jabhat al-Shamiyah (#FSA) knocked out a third tank, north of #Aleppo this time
https://youtu.be/ry9k7WQdmGE
Another #Malyutka hit by Sham Front near #Khan_Tuman takes out a 23 mm gun. S. #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srf--AvgMnY …
Footage
Ballistic missile strike by the #Assad regime on #Daraa city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NrH-sv0tdc …
Hasaka : #YPG hand over Alaya prison and #Qamishli's municipality building to the Regime after 5 helicopters with 150 elite troops arrived.
According to this, three of the eight Iranians captured by Jaish al-Fath have been executed by the group #Syria
http://www.mulhak.com/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D...A%D9%82%D8%AA/ …
Idlib Airstrike hit the historical museum in
Maarrat al-Numan city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9g45X_WZjY …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...79831&z=18&m=b …