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    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
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    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---
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    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...ubb%20al-ahmar
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    https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.c...o-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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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    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/statu...28871607656448

    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.u...ff/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/stat...71304042848256
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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...63008&z=15&m=b
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...38925&z=16&m=b

    Homs United Nations delegation visit regime besieged al-Waer suburb
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34...71462&z=15&m=b

    Reports: Jaish al Fatah take over Tell Othman
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...38560&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....
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    Seems like the #FSA in #Latakia received new TOW systems.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekxJUHRY2po

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    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/3f3...t3z30z9czg.jpg
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    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...63008&z=15&m=b
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...38925&z=16&m=b

    Homs United Nations delegation visit regime besieged al-Waer suburb
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34...71462&z=15&m=b

    Reports: Jaish al Fatah take over Tell Othman
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...38560&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

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    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.Me...62/?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/20...#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...38560&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...38432&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.Me...62/?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/...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/...a-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...55126&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/...0SS24Z20151103

    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=mJ3S...ature=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/st...35990976933888

    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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