Al Arabiya English ✔ @AlArabiya_EngOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
#BREAKING Saudi Arabia’s Council of Senior Scholars calls ending blockade of Madaya
France Diplomacy ✔ @francediplo_EN
France utterly condemns the siege being imposed by the Syrian regime on the town of Madaya in #Syria
http://fdip.fr/v4aDW
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-07-2016 at 05:12 PM.
I use to use this video as a perfect example of the BCT Staff decision making processes seen in 2006 through 2012----dug it out as it is a perfect example of what the US FP in the ME looks like to the KSA and the other Sunni Front States......the only difference is in the video the many cats do make it to their destination whereas our FP is lost somewhere in outer space...
A good cat herder is hard to find, no doubt
http://youtu.be/wz5vwUM_uuM
Reuters Opinion ✔ @ReutersOpinion
Saudi Arabia and Iran are playing a winner-take-all game
http://reut.rs/1RuViFn
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Making of the Arab World - How Sykes-Picot agreement created modern geo-political troubles.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25299553 …
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The #YPG breach the truce after advancing towards Meng Airport
http://ow.ly/WKEhB
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Dawn of Islam Brigade fighting in Sheikh Miskin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkuXjgYefC0 …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=32...57551&z=14&m=b …
Rebels shell checkpoint at Kherbet Ghazaleh to relieve pressure on Sheikh Miskin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz87i9xsvDA …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=32...08706&z=13&m=b …
Brave Syrian ins the hard-hit town of #Rastan protest for an end of the siege of #Madaya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACxmP1Rfq1s …
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Civilian victims of the #RussianAirstrikes that hit #Douma yesterday.
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Footage
Terrorism: #Assad air force MiG-23 drops bomb on #Irbin, east of #Damascus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lXfi54Fm5U …
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Recommend always following this site.........
STRATCOMCOE:On Friday we will publish our report on #Daesh.For now - here is Global #media structure of #Daesh
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Where's Russia striking? Is #IslamicState near? Check this data by @bellingcat on @silkdotco
http://russia-strikes-syria.silk.co
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Yup, though I'm rather surprised that assassinations in question are hitting either Islamist or Jihadist commanders (in comparison: 'only' two FSyA commanders were assassinated in last two months).
So, not sure what to make out of this story.
BTW, something similar happened to the 'Emir' of the Daesh's Wilayet in south-western Dera'a recently (if you check any recent and useful map of Syria you'll see a small Daesh-held pocket at the joint of Syrian-Jordanian borders, and Israeli-occuppied Golan Heights). Yesterday, reports appeared that this pocket is now short of getting overrun, or at least negotiating surrender... only thing unclear was: with whom? FSyA or the JAN...
VIDEO: Footage claims to show an AA vehicle destroyed by mortar in Sheikh Miskeen, Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueg1...ature=youtu.be …
VIDEO: Saif al-Sham fires SPG-9 at #SAA positions near Brigade 82 base in Sheikh Miskeen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZP448RCyE …
SYRIA: Reports that #ISIS are attacking the #SDF on 2 different fronts near Tishrin Dam.
http://www.hawarnews.com/%D8%A7%D8%A...1%D9%8A%D9%86/ …
VIDEO: FSA groups target SAA held Qassab Tower in Latakia, #Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFWkCPImqM …
VIDEO: @OrientNews report on ongoing battle to retake Brigade 82 base in Sheikh Miskeen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmLWmdCCeI …
VIDEO: Islamic Muthanna Movement destroy building being used by militia in Sheikh Miskeen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKxz_fIycUg …
VIDEO: Assad regime troops clash with rebels around the town of Sheikh Miskeen in southern #Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onygWB0jbVk …
.@CITeam_ru identifies 3 models of Rus cluster bomb being used in Syria. @leloveluck documents the horrific results http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ar-planes.html …
How @Ruptly @RT_com & @mod_russia accidently helped @CITeam_en expose Russia's cluster bomb lies
https://citeam.org/sputnik-rt-and-ru...eimim-airbase/ …
Footage
Heavy clashes in #Daraa's #Manchiya district as the #Assad army tries to advance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-AUueMwt4I …
Siege Watch, an interactive map showing areas under siege in #Syria:
http://siegewatch.org
Analysis #Map
Syrian rebels defend the "Customs Gate" in #Daraa from the #Assad assault:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDislmac1qM
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Assad steals NGO/UN food for his own military and supporters.....
Int orgs/NGOS send supplies to starving Syrians starved by Assad: Assad steals them & distributes to his mercenaries https://twitter.com/aejkhalil/status/650334451281580032 …
Do I need to tell you why ASSad staff did blur the labels of these box containing @WFP aid food water etc???
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Assad using #UNHCR Supplied Relief supplies for his troops #Latakia
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While besieged areas is receiving bombs
#ASSad "volunteers"deliver #WFP Aid to #SAA in the frontlines
#Suweida oct3
Hezbollah in #Lebanon steal Gulf&Turkish aid & "post-it" w/ their logo to send to"Syrians"(#ASSad soldiers&Iranians)
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News of the day on battlefields of Syria is that the regime is moving two new 'brigades' into north-eastern Lattakia:
- Liwa Assad Allah al-Ghalib (about 1000 motorized infantry from Abu Fadhl al-Abbas movement); and
- Liwa Suqour as-Sahra (BPM's Desert Hawks Brigade).
While regime fans are already announcing a next big (in terms of 'final') offensive there, this is actually a rather amazing admission of failure on that front. Namely, in three months of assaulting positions of what is now the Sultan Murad Division FSyA (fmr. 1st and 2nd Coastal Divisions), the regime has spent (literally) the 103rd Brigade RGD, Liwa Dir as-Sahel RGD/NDF and two extra 'Alawites-only' battalions, Liwa Nusr az-Zawba SSNP, al-Hosn PMC, and Muqawama as-Syria TSR, one brigade of Hezbollah/Lebanon (over 100 KIA in early December), and two battalions of the Russian Army (reportedly up to 50 KIA in December)... for a gain of 5km...
...and now they're sending Hezbollah/Iraq and BPM to 'win instead'...?
Also: if BPM's Liwa Suqour as-Sahra was re-deployed away from Palmyra (where it was involved in combat during all of December), this effectively means that the regime's offensive on Daesh-held Palmyra is over too.
But OK. Namely, that's perfectly in fashion of what never stops amazing me about Assad-fans:
- their union in insistence on twisting the truth, and
- their insistence on supporting regime's insistence on bolstering failures.
Related to this is also my second point: this incredible insistence on bolstering failures by Assadist, IRGC, and now Russian wannabe-Napoleons is nothing short of... nah, 'amazing' is not doing it... 'almost shocking'. Even the IRGC has given up trying to punch through over the M5 in southern Aleppo.
BUT, Alawites keep on insisting on that battle in NE Lattakia - although they should know very well they have failed to break through in three months of trying; they're unlikely to break through in another three months; and overall this means they'll almost certainly never reach their ultimate objective (Jishr ash-Shughour).
For now 100 days the Russians have been deliberately targeting and killing civilians and both Assad and Putin are in clear violation of international humanitarian law that states the use of starvation as a battlefield tactic is illegal end of story.
BUT WAIT all we hear out of Obama and Kerry is..."we are a few days away from implementation of the Iran deal"...not a single word of Assad and Putin killing in 100 days approx. 2000 civilians and starving literally thousands....
YET we wonder WHY the KSA is parting ways with the US.......
Almost 2000 civilians killed, 1730 identified, victims of #Russia airstrikes in it's 100th days occupying #Syria.
45 martyrs including 12 children & 7 women
23 #Damascus
19 #Aleppo
3 #DeirEzzor
2 #Hama
1 #Idlib
#Syria JAN 7
Ten more IRGC and terrorist Quds Force fighters killed in #Syria
http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/terr...entalism/19770 … …
SAA warplanes carried out airstrikes on #Douma
#Damascus cs #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Tel_Refaat
#Aleppo cs #Syria JAN 8
SAA terrorists shelling with Grad Rockets on #Darayya
#Damascus #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Palmyra
#Homs #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Raabia village
#Latakia cs #sYRIA JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Salma village
#Latakia cs #Syria JAN 8
SAA warplanes carried out airstrikes on #Douma
#Damascus cs #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Jabal_Alhmar
#Latakia cs #SYria JAN 8
US_Coallition carried out airstrikes in #Raqqa countryside, killing 11 civilians #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Hamimah village
#Aleppo cs #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Faysal_Mills
#Aleppo cs #Syria JAN 8
7 #Russia airstrikes so far in 30 minutes ONLY in #Deir_Gamal
#Aleppo cs #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #al_Zeyarah village
#Hama cs #SYria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Tel_Wassit village
#Hama cs #Syria JAN 8
SAA warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #al_Shifouniyah village
#Damascus cs #Syria JAN 8
4 civilians killed after step over landmines АО -2.5РТМ dropped by #Hezbollah in the surrounds farms of #Madaya
#Damascus cs #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Tel_Refaat
#Aleppo cs #Syria JAN 8
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Deir_Gamal town
#Aleppo cs #Syria JAN 8
Two #Russia warplanes flying together carried out airstrikes on #Sheikh_Meskin
#Daraa #Syria JAN 8
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Mar Al Numan: rebel brigade Ahrar al Sham capture ISIS sleeper cell that assassinated Abu Tamim leader of Jund Al Sunnah.
A #Syria Civil Defense vehicle was hit at an airstrike scene in Zamalka on Thursday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqG...aJEH_I&index=1 …
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Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-08-2016 at 01:33 PM.
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That's the most tragic aspect of what's going on there.
But now add the following absurdities to that equotation:
- While helping create that 'Popular Militia Units' ('Hashd') to fight the Daesh in Iraq, the IRGC is diverting an increasing numbers of these to Syria, where they are exclusively fighting native insurgents;
- which means that US and taxpayer's money of other Western powers (UK, France, Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, Italy, Germany etc.) keeps on getting squandered to fight the Daesh in Iraq - which, even if successful, is only going to result in one oppressive regime (Daesh) being replaced by another (IRGC)...
- And, while everybody - regardless if in Russia or so many in the 'West' (indeed, even Financial Times is wetting itself while babbling about 'Russia helps shift balance'...) - is still faming 'precision' and 'influence on ground warfare' of the VKS, the latter is all the time bombing Syrian civilians; and not only massacring hundreds but creating ever additional waves of refugees that are fleeing to Turkey and other neighbouring countreis...
- ...while at the same time the VKS is insistent in NOT attacking 'at least' insurgent artillery and armour deployed in the open around Sheikh Mishkin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmLWmdCCeI
- ...yet, all sorts of 'curious observers' in the West, ranging from anti-Imperalists to Neo-Nazis are cheering Russians for 'finally sorting out things in Syria'...
Man... sooner or later (more likely much too late, but why should anybody care?), there's going to be such a rude wake-up from this hangover...
CrowBat---any reason for the lack of TOWs being fired....say lack of targets, or bad weather...or the US???
Zero #TOW #ATGM Launch in 2016 is no coincidence.
Not realistic to assume no targets with multiple SAA offensives.
JaF executed 5 Undercover IS in Idlib city accused of planting bombs. 2 were ex Jund Al Aqsa and 3 were active Jund members.
Just a refresher.......
Syria INFOGRAPHIC: all the major armed groups of the Syrian rebellion & their dynamics
http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/04e...v8aa7qsqzg.jpg …
Turkish president hosts Syrian Turkmens, as UN’s Mistura visits Ankara - Hurryiet
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tur...&NewsCatID=352 …
...and this sounds like another carpet-bombardment by VKS (i.e. Russian Airspace Force) Tu-22M3s (or at least Su-34s), then the CENTCOM is presently only flying air strikes in support of the YPG (i.e. 'quasi-SDF') advance from Euphrates in direction of Manbij (north-eastern Aleppo province).
It did not report any air strikes in Raqqa area the last two days; neither in report from 6-7 January nor for 7-8 January.
'Not realistic' is to babble about 'multiple SAA offensives'.
Namely: there's no 'SAA' to be seen on any of battlefields, and except in NE Lattakia and in Sheikh Mishkin area, this IRGC/Hezbollah/NDF/SSNP + whoever-else-only-can conglomerate is not 'on offensive' (indeed, even the IRGC/PLA offenisve in Sheikh Mishkin was meanwhile checked, and Iranians and Palestinians are retreating there).
Anyway: there are two primary reasons for relatively few TOW-firings (or any other sort of ATGM-firings) in the last few weeks.
1.) One is that after several slaughters (like those of NDF/SSNP tanks in northern Hama in October; and IRGC-QF's tanks in southern Aleppo, in November), 'regime' commanders have learned to deploy these no closer than 2-3km from the frontline - except there is a need to do so.
2.) But foremost: all regime's offensives in 'tank-suitable' terrain - that is northern Hama and southern Aleppo - have been stopped. The RGD, NDF and SSNP - only units to deploy MBTs in NE Lattakia - have now been withdrawn to the second line there, and replaced by IRGC and BPM units that operate no MBTs.
That's why the last week or so most of ATGMs have been fired in Sheikh Mishkin area
3.) Finally, it is so that most of 'major/most-prolific' TOW-users - such FSyA units like 13th Division, Tajamu al-Aazza etc. - have been re-deployed to areas where there is more need for them, like to NE Lattakia, where they get less opportunity to find any MBTs, technicals, bulldozers etc. to target.
Even so, ATGMs are still fired - whenever there's a suitable opportunity. The only recent days for which I recall that none were fired were 1 and 2 January.
VIDEO While Syrians are starving UN aid supplies are found at Assad army base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Vbq-9MaNg …
Rojava Soldier in the frontlines of Northern #Efrin holding Bread in protesting for #Madaya
#Aleppo #Syria JAN 8
pic.twitter.com/roBvP1m0sr
Distraction in Andan village #Aleppo after what locals say Russian missiles attack.
https://youtu.be/n-QkD0sqRgU
pic.twitter.com/yjItTVxllE
Implications for U.S. allies of Iran/Hizballah advancing in southern Syria under Russian air cover.
http://washin.st/1VQdB8B
Russia is sabotaging the rebels in southern #Syria, a bastion of moderates with a functional relationship w/ West.
http://on.ft.com/1UCjxRA
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