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A simple explanation after recent Tweets and reports that "CIA-backed Kyrds are fighting DoD-backed Kurds in Syria". Hat tip to...

My apologies, a late PM post without checking my facts. Yes, it was the highway to Aleppo I meant to ask about.:(

That said thank you both for your posts in response.

Crowbat & Outlaw09,

Slightly puzzled about the offensive to retake Palymra.

Approx. ten days ago you both IIRc posted that the desert highway between the regime's strongholds in the south and...

Two aspects are strange for such a presumed expert observer, first up:

The original reporting on the exercise IIRC referred to a limited on the ground presence and the rest were virtual...

Three responses to the Russian announcement, two by UK-based academics and the third a review of how Russia's military has changed.

1) Scott...

A slightly odd, almost revisionist article from Carnegie Middle East Centre, which claims there have been no mass defections from the Syrian Army. Judge for...

Hat tip to Scott Lucas on:http://eaworldview.com/2016/03/iran-daily-qods-forces-soleimani-defends-tehrans-military-campaigns/

Which links to a very short Press TV clip of Soleimani...

From ISW via the BBC and curiously the broken Assad supply line to Aleppo is shown as still controlled:http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/163F/production/_88559650_syria_control_map_624_v7.png

Not worth visiting. Quite a glossy look and some very basic research shown in the one article I viewed. A side-bar advert or supporter for a Canadian research outfit globalresearch.ca is enough to...

Now this is interesting, notably the numbers involved and the report starts with:...

A longer than usual BBC explanation about what is happening in northern Syria; although minus Crowbat's more rigorous reporting. So he will take exception to the diagram! As I suspect would many...

New or old, but with a Russian soldier now. Doesn't look well compared to previous photos. From:http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2016/02/russian-soldier-takes-selfie-with.html...

Well, well clarity:
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12164765/US-warplanes-strike-Isil-camp-in-Libya-targeting-Tunisia-terror-attacks-militant.html

Citing Crowbat in part, from Post 1620:

Well I've not seen any UK reporting on the USAF sorties to Libya from RAF Lakenheath. The nearest is this rather funny "smokescreen" in a local story:

It...

Outlaw09,

The cited source (IBT) refers to:

Someone has been exaggerating, too much time in the sun? Yes all the nations may have such numbers, but to move them the Saudi's northern border...

I think not! Via Charles Lister on Twitter.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbH1xEAWcAIGgGU.png:large

A first-hand report by Peter Oborne, a UK journalist of note and ex-daily Telegraph. Yes the visit is facilitated by the official Syrian...

Hat tip to WoTR for a Turkish analyst's assessment of a possible Turkish intervention:http://warontherocks.com/2016/02/prospects-for-a-turkish-incursion-into-syria

He concludes:

I refer to the very mixed bag of twenty willing nations ready to act in Syria, against ISIS; notably Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Others named by CNN earlier were: Brunei, Malaysia, Morocco, Qatar,...

Two quite different views, Steven Metz (USA) and Natalie Nougayrde (French), on what may happen now - assuming Aleppo falls to the coalition ostensibly led by Bashir Assad.

Steven starts...

Is this really Qasem Soleimani back in Syria?
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/694421566759817216

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaMUuqZXEAAr79h.jpg

I have created a new thread to enable the exchange between Outlaw09 and mwe12 to continue - separate from this the main Syria thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=23435

Both...

From Jane IHS:http://www.janes.com/article/57402/syrian-government-territory-grows-by-1-3-with-russian-military-support?

http://www.janes.com/images/assets/402/57402/1569160_-_main.jpg

Cited in part:

Pakistan has declined to join the broad alliance announced pre-Xmas by Saudi Arabia and an earlier request for their military support over the conflict, which became a war with the...

I think you will find there was a similar exercise one or two years ago, in the same area. Perhaps it is just a repeat? Alas I cannot readily find the post with the news.