Good morning everybody in 2016...
The 'news' collected this morning are those for the last day of 2015, though, and I doubt it's going to be very much different for the rest of this year. Then, sadly, the Russians continued in precisely the same fashion like before (including bombardments of IDP-camps then, Russians never bomb civilians with their super-turbo precise weapons).
Aleppo (city and Azaz corridor)
Russians flew a two-wave bombardment of an IDP-camp north of Azaz, killing four. To the luck of refugees there, nearly a dozen of bombs failed to detonate. Three women were killed and several kids lost their limbs...
Nearby food depot was hit too (guess that bombing this place really helped improve 'combat experience' of involved crews, then 'air defences' must've been 'fierce'):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsfQZrpzO8o
Curiously, YouTube then removed the Qasyoun TV-channel, deleting thousands of videos from this war too... what is left is a small part of all of these re-loaded on SyrianArchive - which is prompting the question: why are giants in US social media so supportive for Russian crimes against humanity?
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Aleppo (south)
Thuwar ash-Sham TOWing an IRGC MBT (results are 'inconclusive'):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXa0GKHUlUo
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Hama/Homs
A series of bombing attacks hit the Ayoudun village and Talbiseh in RTP.
BTW, a regime announcement about success in assault on four villages south-east of Hama has revealed that the RTP is much bigger than usually claimed or shown on any kind of maps: namely, it has (or at least it had) a lengthy 'prong' in direction of Hama city, nearly reaching its outskirts (thanks so much to all the 'neutral', though actually pro-regime, map-drawers around the internet).
Insurgents claimed to have killed 32 Assadist thugs there.
Map attached below is showing the area in question and what the regime claims to have recovered. Mind: this is anything but 'confirmed'.
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Dera'a
Despite claims by regime fans that Sheikh Mishkin was 'completely liberated', fierce bombardment from the air and by artillery, and deployment of a mass of at least three brigades of IRGC-QF's Hezbollah/Iraq, and although several of insurgent groups have left the town without letting anybody know, between 30 and 40% of Sheikh Mishkin remain in insurgent hands. Yesterday, their RPG-teams were busy hunting down single T-72s around the southern part of the place. At least one was knocked out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ac52XBFGQ
...and because Sheikh Mishkin was 'captured' by Iranians and Iraqis, this RT propaganda team didn't manage it into the town: that is, they've reached the outskirts then the local IRGC commanders forced them to leave...
...while regime-fans claim that all the FSyA units have left the town and 'Jihadists are now in control' (how comes if 'SyAA' has re-captured it?), the FSyA released the names of 29 KIA in Sheikh Mishkin, in the last two days.
BTW, how 'well aimed' and 'precise' is the bombing by Russian gheroys can be gauged by videos like this one, showing release of dumb bombs from about 2,000m altitude - downwind ( :roll: ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5NCvJ0-BRI
...so the bombs can be better dragged away from course by the wind, I guess... Man, if these are 'Russian professionalists at work'... perhaps I should fly some of Su-34s instead of them...
Further west, regime launched a diversionary attack on Samdaniya and al-Gharbiya near Qunaitra. Although each village was captured, both were recovered in insurgent counterattacks launched already late in the morning.
It's snowing in most of central Syria today, so I guess there is not going to be much action.
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