Syria in 2016 (January-March)

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Arsal Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon covered with snow need urgent fuel & food supplies.
https://youtu.be/LCSZb4Fj_I0

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To those in the #SouthernFront:
#MOC denies you offensives to cut Daraa corridor, denies you #ATGM since half a year.
Why obey to them???

Note: Daraa & #SouthernFront keep getting banned from recieving substantial #TOW- 1 #ATGM. Same since 6 months.

53 ATGM launches in December 2015:
http://justpaste.it/DecemberATGM

1250 total ATGM launches in Syria so far by anti-gov groups
~790 TOW
450+ other ATGM

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Note that #YPG use their sunni mercenary unit #JaTh to hide their landgrab Intentions.

Shekh Miskin: a strangely behaving allegedly assadist target is hit.
https://youtu.be/QSq_Bd4-6wo

ISW ‏@TheStudyofWar · 31 Dec 2015
How the battle against the Islamic State is redrawing the map of the Middle East. @LizSly
http://wpo.st/GnA01

Leader of (Kurdish) PYD-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces admits coordinating with the Assad regime.
http://bit.ly/1OzjPu2 #Syria

It is amazing that the US has for years not paid much attention to videos being released by the various Salafist groups---

Strangely neglected, this video released on January 23 2007 is the family photo of the newborn Islamic State of Iraq

You can see the brigades celebrating the establishment of the Islamic State – here a commander in Baghdad (Jan 2007)

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Syria-n Coalition Calls for Urgent International Action to Save ##Mouadamiya
http://ow.ly/Ww43B

Calls to #UNSC to protect civilians in #Mouadamiya according to resolutions 2139, 2165 &2254
http://ow.ly/Ww4vF

Davutoglu: #Russia’s bombing of the moderate armed opposition in #Aleppo and #Idlib boosts #Daesh (#ISIS)
http://ow.ly/Wv3EM

Maktabi: #Assad backed by #Russia & #Iran uses siege as #weapon to subdue, starve & displace #Syria-ns
http://ow.ly/Wv19a

Syria-n Coalition Condemns #Qamishli Bombings Blames #Russia for Continuation of #Terrorism
http://ow.ly/Wv34Z

Maktabi Criticizes #UN Role in Agreements Leading to Displacement of #Syria-ns
http://ow.ly/WuV9s

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After Ghouta regime apologists insisted Volcano rockets were purely a rebel weapon. Now RT f***ing poses with them https://twitter.com/ArtWendeley/stat...71055972040704 …

Same "unconventional artillery" used in the August 21st 2013 Sarin attack, thanks @MuradoRT

Michael Weiss ✔ @michaeldweiss
RT becoming an accidental Bellingcat.

not all volcanoes have the ring tail section...
pic.twitter.com/0Qt1JC8Xfy

RBK-500 cluster bombs on a Su-34 in Syria (@mod_russia denies they have it) and on a Su-17 in Afghanistan.

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Assad regime tortured 1546 people to death in 2015. #Syria
http://sn4hr.org/wp-content/pdf/engl...in_2015_en.pdf …

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YPG seized 2 villages from the rebels west of Azaz within their campaign to occupy the border town

The "#SDF" is openly fighting the #FSA/Ahrar and other groups with US backing. The media is loving it.
http://reut.rs/1PBfiV8

A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters advanced against Islamist insurgents in the north of the country on Friday, capturing at least one village in Aleppo province, a spokesman and a monitoring group said.

Fighters from the Democratic Forces of Syria seized the village of Tanab near the town of Azaz after heavy clashes with the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and the powerful Ahrar al Sham, spokesman Talal Selo told Reuters.

"We liberated Tanab," he said.

Britain-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Democratic Forces of Syria had also captured the village of Tat Mrash. Selo said he could not yet confirm its capture.

It came just days after the alliance seized a dam from Islamic State further east, cutting one of its main supply routes across the Euphrates.

Since the U.S.-backed alliance was formed last October, its fighters have opened several major offensives against Islamic State with the ultimate goal of capturing Raqqa.

The alliance has separately been fighting in recent weeks against Nusra Front, Ahrar al Sham and other insurgents in northern Aleppo province.

The Democratic Forces of Syria includes the Kurdish YPG militia, which has been the most effective partner on the ground for U.S.-led air strikes.

Kurdish gains around Azaz, which is near the Turkish border, are also likely to increase concern in Turkey about growing Kurdish sway near the frontier. Ankara is fighting an insurgency against Kurdish PKK fighters in its southeast.

Washington's strategy in Syria shifted in 2015 from trying to train thousands of fighters outside the country to supplying groups headed by U.S.-vetted commanders.

The U.S. military estimates the Democratic Forces of Syria has captured around 1,000 square kilometers of terrain in the past six weeks or so, bolstered by coalition air strikes.