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    UN human rights chief: thousands may have died of starvation during sieges affecting nearly half a million people in #Syria

    BUT WAIT....still not a single UN aid convoy to be seen anywhere in Syria...key part of the CoH is not being implemented.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Reference the Obama/Kerry tilt to Iran in the hope of a more moderate Iran....

    A stern push-back from @EliLake on the torrent of nonsense about "moderates" being "elected" in Iran
    http://bv.ms/1n0anTB

    The search for nuance in Iran after Khamenei and the Guard Corps have gutted even Rafsanjani is a staggering example of wish-thinking.

    The so called Obama hoped for moderates only have 69 seats vs the over 250 plus radical/conservative seats...not a majority thus no voice.
    WHY is this so important for the Syrian war...this means that Khamenei and the IRGC will just keep on fighting to maintain their land corridor to Hezbollah in Lebanon and to turn a major Arab Sunni nation state into a Shia controlled state.....the moderates ACTUALLY did voice their support publicly for the war as well......

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    Syria Airstrikes continues on northern #Hama, northern #Homs, #Idlib & #Latakia mountain towns & villages today

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vykSvtVqvVY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGtQ-vzqN0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz6p889pNg0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWs6k-JkiD4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5eem2womus

    Just from today.....still not a statement from the Russian Syrian RCC about number of CoH violations especially from the Assad and Russian AFs.....

    BUT WAIT....Russia stated they would keep on bombing and that is their definition of a "CoH".......
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    UN human rights chief: thousands may have died of starvation during sieges affecting nearly half a million people in #Syria

    BUT WAIT....still not a single UN aid convoy to be seen anywhere in Syria...key part of the CoH is not being implemented.....
    The UN has called out Assad and Russian for possible war crimes, genocide and now actually points the finger at deliberate starvation and ethnic cleansing as possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    BUT the Obama WH and his DoS somehow just cannot quite get the personal courage to use the words "genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes" in the very same sentence together with the names Putin and Assad....

    Ever wonder why???????

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Syria Airstrikes continues on northern #Hama, northern #Homs, #Idlib & #Latakia mountain towns & villages today

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vykSvtVqvVY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGtQ-vzqN0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz6p889pNg0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWs6k-JkiD4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5eem2womus

    Just from today.....still not a statement from the Russian Syrian RCC about number of CoH violations especially from the Assad and Russian AFs.....

    BUT WAIT....Russia stated they would keep on bombing and that is their definition of a "CoH".......
    Come on really...we have this massive DoS 1-800 Call Center to record Syrian called in CoH violations AND now the French call a spade a spade and they have no such center???????

    Breaking: French Foreign Ministry calls for immediate meeting to discuss violations of #Syria ceasefire

    Al Arabiya English ✔ @AlArabiya_Eng
    #Breaking France says called for immediate meeting of Syria task force to discuss violations of cessation of hostilities

    AND our billions invested into the 17 intel agencies could not come to this conclusion faster than the French?????

    Simply embarrassing.......
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    The Jerusalem Post
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    Report: Assad regime using Israeli drones against Syrian rebels

    http://dlvr.it/Kf0W31

    Glad this worked out well for the Israeli's.... taken by the Russians as well and were lied to as well....

    Drones were sold to Russia 5 years ago in an effort to convince Russia not to sell S-300 systems to Iran

    Russian Transport Aviation sorties to #Syria up 30% this week. 17 flights so far.

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    CrowBat......here is again that Iranian withdrawal rumor..........

    Iran said withdrawing all its fighting forces from #Syria
    http://toi.sr/1RcVRQL via @timesofisrael

    Maybe they figure they have enough transnational shia jihadists already in Syria and they will pull out only their IRGC elements...then they can say see we pulled out our own troops......

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    Bashar #Assad opposes efforts to stop the turmoil in #Syria and wants to undermine the negotiation process says #Bulgarian FM Daniel Mitov

    UAE FM: Iranian-backed militias killing Iraqis & Syrians must not be overlooked in the fight against terrorism https://www.facebook.com/58801250455...8688672816278/

    Here the UAE FM is referring to the sectarian killing of Sunni's by Shia militias.

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    Reuters Top News ✔ @Reuters
    NATO chief says concerned about Russian military build-up in Syria

    http://reut.rs/215NSKD

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    After Obama and Kerry saw the thousands of attacks carried out by the Russian military and her mercenaries in eastern Ukraine AFTER Minsk 2...JUST why did they really think Putin would adhere to his own CoH in Syria??

    Michael Weiss ✔ @michaeldweiss

    Ceasefire in practice: Syria regime reportedly mobilizing for west Aleppo campaign
    http://mme.cm/UXAW00
    via @NOW_eng
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    Short range METIS ATGM attack on a Tank in Hirbnafsah village, #Hama. IR-detector attached?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrHnmBSZcGw

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    BUT WAIT did not the Russian MoD state yesterday morning the US had given them a US map of the locations of the opposition and it was different from their maps and they had started comparing the two maps...BUT WAIT Russia is still bombing using their map so why would/or did the US provide any information at all.

    Russia is info warring the US and trying to split the FSA/HNC from the US by alluding that the strike information Russia is using comes from the US as well.

    Notice the US does not push back on that "perception does it?????????


    Russian Embassy, USA @RusEmbUSA

    Dpty Foreign Minister #Ryabkov: information exchange on #Syria b/w #Russia & US is underway

    http://sptnkne.ws/aJwB
    pic.twitter.com/NVyxLd7K2k

    Here is the info warfare key that it is propaganda ...it is being spread by Sputnik International the 100% owned Russian propaganda machine and not much was pushed via the Russian FM directly......


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    Rosenblum's piece in @politico: It's Time for Safe Zones in #Syria → http://buff.ly/1T1B0ps

    Update
    #Assad / #Russian raids ongoing in #Homs, #Hama, #Idlib, #Latakia and #Aleppo.
    Activists talk of "total ignorance of the truce".

    Hope that DoS Syrian Call Center 1-800 line is running hot today as the "so called largely holding ceasefire"...ain't holding a cm of water........

    Update
    #Assad / #Russian raids ongoing in #Homs, #Hama, #Idlib, #Latakia and #Aleppo.
    Activists talk of "total ignorance of the truce".


    Syrian opposition says government wrecking truce deal
    http://reut.rs/1ThwDHk
    Notice it is already about 0930 DC time 16:OO Berlin time and the DoS Syrian Coordination Center still has not say a single word about the Russian lack of compliance with their own proposed and pushed CoH.......

    New #Russia'n airstrikes today on Harbinafsah in southern #Hama after regime failed to invade town yd
    .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkT...ature=youtu.be

    ABSOLUTELY no JaN and or IS anywhere near this town...only FSA.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    WHY is this so important for the Syrian war...this means that Khamenei and the IRGC will just keep on fighting to maintain their land corridor to Hezbollah in Lebanon and to turn a major Arab Sunni nation state into a Shia controlled state.....the moderates ACTUALLY did voice their support publicly for the war as well......
    Indeed. Who to hell told either Oblabla or the Mentalist any Iranians might change their opinions about Syria?

    Their 'moderates' (the side that 'won' latest 'elections') is designated as such just because of Western wishful thinking. Actually, they're well-known as loyalists to by ultra-conservatives (who, in turn are such 'true Shi'a clergy, that all are lacking necessary qualifications for their positions, while the those that don't are all sitting in house-arrest in Qom).

    On the contrary: absolutely nothing changed in regards of how much is the IRI controlled by the ultra-conservatives - and even less so in regards of influence upon Iranian security- and foreign policies by the Khamenei clique and the IRGC.

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    Regime-helicopter dropped barrel bombs on rebel held Kafr Haddad in southern rural #Aleppo http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...70961&z=14&m=b

    Not confirmed yet as this would be the third or fourth time they claimed to have retaken it only to lose to again......

    Regime retake control of #Hama-#Khanasser-#Aleppo road after #IS retreated

    RuAF airstrike on Kafrzeita in #Hama province

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    #Assad forces, ignoring the truce, shelling Umm Sharshuh in #Homs province.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfmHk6xADrg

    Same procedure as every day.
    Babies & old people die of hunger & lacking medicine due to #Assad's siege of #Douma.


    Under intense artillery, tank & mortar shelling Assad forces appear to have advanced into al-Fadayiya near Marj in eastern Ghouta,

    I can not say if this is true or not.
    But it would explain,where thousands of Iraqi fighters "disappeared" to after the early February push.

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    CrowBat...what do you think.....??

    BreakingReport
    Thousands of Shiite militia men prepare for an offensive FROM #AFRIN canton

    https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsRepo...leppo-campaign

    I can not say if this is true or not.
    But it would explain,where thousands of Iraqi fighters "disappeared" to after the early February push.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    CrowBat......here is again that Iranian withdrawal rumor..........

    Iran said withdrawing all its fighting forces from #Syria
    http://toi.sr/1RcVRQL via @timesofisrael

    Maybe they figure they have enough transnational shia jihadists already in Syria and they will pull out only their IRGC elements...then they can say see we pulled out our own troops......
    Sorry, but this is loads of nonsensical day-dreaming. I have no clue why are Israelis repeating this... already for the 5th time or so?

    At the time the Mentalist babbled something of this kind for the first time, there were 20+ gangs of Iraqi Shi'a Jihadists in Syria. Meanwhile there are more than 55. Plus, Hezbollah/Syria and Alawite sectarians have established several additional units - most of which are at least commanded by Iraqi Shi'a Jihadists.

    BTW, that there can be no trace of true in reports about some supposed Iranian withdrawal from Syria was 'indirectly confirmed' this morning, when it turned out that all the reports about 'SAA recovering Khan Nassir and re-opening the road to Aleppo are a bunch of moronic lies by various regime-fans on the internet.

    Namely, the Daesh not only counter-attacked and re-captured parts of Khan Nassir, but the road is still closed on at least one of two points further south, too. Which means that up to 50,000 IRGC & consorts troops and 1,5 million of Syrian civilians living in western Aleppo remain cut off from supplies.

    In essence: nearly everything all the possible regime fans (but especially al-Masdar/Mangier, Sidorenko and Ridha) have reported in regards of this battle is wrong. The only thing that was 'right' was that the Hezbollah reached Khan Nassir - and lost its top 'special forces' CO there (whether KIA, MIA or whatever else), three days ago.

    Meanwhile, even the YPG switched to 'Russian lies style'. They got overrun in Tel Abyad by a Daesh raiding party. Now, shame enough that a gang of Daesh idiot overrun YPG garrison of several hundred, supported by US SFs and air power. But nah, that's not enough: now Kurds can't stop crying how 'Turkey let the Daesh attack Tel Abyad from its soil' - then, clearly: 'it's impossible the YPG got beaten by Daesh idiots'.

    Ironically, everybody in Syria I asked about this is sure: Daesh actually infiltrated the place via the YPG-controlled territory.

    Characteristically: the first victim of that raid was no YPG guard or whatever - but one of Sunni Arab tribal leaders from Dayr az-Zawr, who lived there as a sort of a 'refugee'.

    Bottom line: the entire story about Tel Abyad is Kurdish+Daesh PRBS 1st class, and not worth mentioning with one further sentence.

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    Footage
    Russian air force attack on the moderate #FreeSyrianArmy HQ near #KafrZita today.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGtQ-vzqN0

    Footage
    Russian jets also keep attacking towns around #KafrZita in northern #Hama prov.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cxGc_bPQ-0

    OF COURSE with the help of #Russian air force jets from above! ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRqTYXQ9OM4

    Footage
    The #Assad army offensive on #Hirbnafsah continues without break.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf-o2eNkNqg
    #Hama #Syria

    Footage
    #Assad air forces helicopters dropped several bombs on Jisr al-Shughur.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vykSvtVqvVY

    Regime forces shelling Talaf in southern #Hama
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=34...58037&z=13&m=b
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    Al Arabiya English ‏@AlArabiya_Eng

    #Breaking Russian deputy FM says military intervention in Syria by Turkey would be ‘irreparable blow’ to ceasefire
    http://ara.tv/6bfvh

    What Russia forgets is that it has been attacking the Ukraine an average of 40 to 140 times a day for over a year and it is suppose to be complying with the ceasefire as set out in their own pushed for Minsk 2 agreement which they have not even complied with any of the 11 points in Minsk 2...and if these Russian and Assad attacks continue and they are in fact verified in different ways WHY cannot Turkey come across the border to ensure the stopping of the killing of Arab Sunni's......Russia is certainly not protecting them in their so called CoH........

    Here is the Al Aradiya total release.......

    By Staff writer, Al Arabiya English

    Monday, 29 February 2016

    The UN chief said Monday a fragile Syria ceasefire was holding “by and large” despite “incidents” of fighting at the weekend and the opposition warning that the truce was facing a “complete nullification.”

    “As of now I can tell you that by and large the cessation of hostilities is holding even though we have experienced some incidents,” United Nations Secretary Genera Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Geneva.

    A UN-backed taskforce was also set to meet to evaluate various accusations of breaches.

    The taskforce monitoring the truce is “now trying to make sure that this does not spread any further and that this cessation of hostilities can continue.”

    That taskforce would meet at 3:00 pm (1400 GMT), the top UN envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, told AFP.

    The tenuous truce, negotiated by Washington and Moscow and backed by the UN, entered its third day despite reports of violations on both sides.

    The special international task force co-chaired by the United States and Russia last met on Saturday, just hours after the cessation of hostilities began.

    It is one of several mechanisms in place to oversee and deal with violations of the agreement, which does not apply to territory held by ISIS and Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.

    Syrian opposition warning

    On Monday, a Syrian opposition official told Al Arabiya's sister channel Al Hadath that the fragile truce is facing a “complete nullification” because of President Bashar al-Assad government’s attacks.

    Asaad al-Zoubi, head of the Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee’s delegation to peace talks, said the truce which came into effect early on Saturday had collapsed before it started.

    “We have alternatives to protect our people” if the international community could not, it quoted him as saying without elaborating.

    Zoubi added there were “no indicators” that the ground was being prepared
    France has also called for an immediate meeting of the Syria taskforce to discuss breaches of the cessation of hostilities that came into force on Friday for peace talks, which the United Nations has said it plans to reconvene on March 7.

    The Syrian opposition has also sent a letter to the Security Council, saying that Russian war jets on Sunday have executed 26 raids on Syrian rebel factions who were already implementing the ceasefire.

    The letter also accused Moscow of dropping cluster bombs on residential buildings, which led to the killing of many civilians.
    night, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Monday.

    Ayrault told reporters at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva that he had information about attacks against zones held by moderate rebels in Syria.

    “We have received indications that attacks, including air strikes are continuing in areas controlled by the moderate opposition,” Ayrault told reporters in Geneva.

    “This must all of course be verified. France has therefore asked that the task force overseeing the implementation of the cessation of hostilities meets without delay,” he said on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council.

    Meanwhile, the Syrian government said on Monday Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister was trying to thwart a fragile cessation of hostilities agreement.

    “What Adel al-Jubeir says ... about a plan B regarding the current developments in Syria is merely ... an attempt to thwart the cessation of hostilities,” a Syrian foreign ministry official was quoted as saying in a statement on state media.

    Aid delivery

    On Monday, aid workers began carrying out the first delivery of humanitarian assistance to Syrians since the landmark truce came into effect at the weekend, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said.

    The Red Crescent said that 10 trucks of aid including blankets and hygiene supplies provided by the United Nations had entered the besieged Syrian town of Moadamiyet al-Sham southwest of Damascus.
    Question to SWJ readers...WHY did both Russia and the US literally rush the CoH to the finish line...????

    Main goal of Putin`s/Kerry's fake-truce is - is to not let Turkey and Saudi Arabia start a ground operation in Syria...it is really ALL about that and not about truly trying to get a functioning ceasefire...ACTUALLY Assad and Russian actions that have caused the CoH to fail will actually trigger the ground offensive...not so sure Russia understands this.......
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    Quote Originally Posted by CrowBat View Post
    Sorry, but this is loads of nonsensical day-dreaming. I have no clue why are Israelis repeating this... already for the 5th time or so?

    At the time the Mentalist babbled something of this kind for the first time, there were 20+ gangs of Iraqi Shi'a Jihadists in Syria. Meanwhile there are more than 55. Plus, Hezbollah/Syria and Alawite sectarians have established several additional units - most of which are at least commanded by Iraqi Shi'a Jihadists.

    BTW, that there can be no trace of true in reports about some supposed Iranian withdrawal from Syria was 'indirectly confirmed' this morning, when it turned out that all the reports about 'SAA recovering Khan Nassir and re-opening the road to Aleppo are a bunch of moronic lies by various regime-fans on the internet.

    Namely, the Daesh not only counter-attacked and re-captured parts of Khan Nassir, but the road is still closed on at least one of two points further south, too. Which means that up to 50,000 IRGC & consorts troops and 1,5 million of Syrian civilians living in western Aleppo remain cut off from supplies.

    In essence: nearly everything all the possible regime fans (but especially al-Masdar/Mangier, Sidorenko and Ridha) have reported in regards of this battle is wrong. The only thing that was 'right' was that the Hezbollah reached Khan Nassir - and lost its top 'special forces' CO there (whether KIA, MIA or whatever else), three days ago.

    Meanwhile, even the YPG switched to 'Russian lies style'. They got overrun in Tel Abyad by a Daesh raiding party. Now, shame enough that a gang of Daesh idiot overrun YPG garrison of several hundred, supported by US SFs and air power. But nah, that's not enough: now Kurds can't stop crying how 'Turkey let the Daesh attack Tel Abyad from its soil' - then, clearly: 'it's impossible the YPG got beaten by Daesh idiots'.

    Ironically, everybody in Syria I asked about this is sure: Daesh actually infiltrated the place via the YPG-controlled territory.

    Characteristically: the first victim of that raid was no YPG guard or whatever - but one of Sunni Arab tribal leaders from Dayr az-Zawr, who lived there as a sort of a 'refugee'.

    Bottom line: the entire story about Tel Abyad is Kurdish+Daesh PRBS 1st class, and not worth mentioning with one further sentence.
    CrowBat...what do you think about this that has come in today......

    Syria regime reportedly mobilizing for west #Aleppo campaign

    http://mme.cm/UXAW00
    pic.twitter.com/xVWD97TGkK
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