1000s+ families still waiting at #Bab_alSalama gate as #Turkey didn't allow them to cross so far
#Aleppo #Syria FEB4
Joyce Karam @Joyce_Karam
34 Years on #Hama82 Massacre in #Syria : The Assad Playbook Has Not Changed. My piece
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/view...t-changed.html …
Russian DM Spokesperson I.Konashenkov: #Turkey is preparing for military intervention in #Syria
pic.twitter.com/A2tGZTAsGD
Russian war hack Steshin deems Syria 2nd home. When he goes, he takes pork fat as gift. For his Syrian chums I guess
pic.twitter.com/LWL0JT48hg
Expect Iran’s behavior to continue to get worse, not better, after nuclear deal
http://www.thetower.org/article/this...-nuclear-deal/ …
writes @dpatrikarakos
Clashes in the Khan Tuman area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUBmvcdgpY …
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...51220&z=14&m=b … #Aleppo #Syria
John Schindler @20committee
MY LATEST: the Kremlin has abruptly changed its story on who murdered 224 innocent people. What's up with that? http://observer.com/2016/02/who-real...n-flight-9268/ …
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Russia says military adviser killed in #Syria, as #Turkey ramps up its criticism of Moscow's campaign,
http://on.wsj.com/1P8GRoP
MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Zakharova: We regret that Ankara’s provocative stance has been completely supported by US & @NATO |
Report from Azaz border town to Turkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPn7...ature=youtu.be …
Kataib Hizbullah Nubbol-Zahra'da
pic.twitter.com/Im5tIvMyEF
Russia, #Iran & their puppets finish their etnic cleansing in northern #Syria now.
Sunni arab population wipped out
pic.twitter.com/hgXdfCQHsu
Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant
Notwithstanding the Russian MoD's, um, strained relationship with that thing called truth, Turkish intervention isn't implausible.
TOW-gunner from Northern Division FSyA tells the details of the operation that allegedly killed a number of Russian military advisorsOriginally Posted by OUTLAW 09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDTDWOjp-2I
So... Soleimani's Afghan Army has definitely reached Nubol and Kefraya today. Internet is full of regime-fans cheering this 'SAA victory'...
To make things even more problematic (if they can get any worse any more), Oblabla's 'most reliable anti-Daesh friends in Syria' - namely Kurds of the YPG, have joined the IRGC's advance against the FSyA, AAS, IF, JAS, and JAN in northern Aleppo, and captured at least Mayer and one or two other villages. Kurdish excuse is: 'to protect refugees from Nusra terror in last days'.... as if 500,000 civilians in that area are all fleeing from Nusra - and not from Russian and Assadist terror...
BTW, the so much beloved (if not entirely ignored) 'anti-terror' jihadists, pilgrims, and mercenaries of the IRGC in Syria are cheering their victory in usual fashion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjaEamiBbg
...man, I hope Oblabla and all of his biggest fans in the EU is/are pleased about this, and can look forward for the IRGC to declare the Islamic Republic of Syria as next...
In that sense... check the following interview of a defected NDF colonel - who then defected from the FSyA too - by a local journalist from Qunaitra (posted on latter's FB account, in Arabic, with my - very rough - translation) - related to what happened with the FSyA in Sheikh Mishkin:
Of course, half of people who are going to read this are instantly going to jump to the 'sole logical conclusion' for any 'reasonably intelligent, sane Western observer': 'typical Arab conspiracy excuse'.In the name of God, the most merciful, I am the faithful defected Colonel. I cannot mention my name for security reasons. Oh, honorable commanders in Daraa province, a deal has been made between the neighboring states to hand over all of Daraa province to the gang of the criminal Bashar al-Assad to take control of Daraa province, which will be a powerful card in his hand. We ask you to open all fronts and refuse any foreign orders. I am an employee with MOC. It was MOC that ordered the handover of Al-Sheikh Miskeen. After it fell several honorable factions decided to recapture Al-Sheikh Miskeen. The MOC went crazy and gave orders to start the battle of Al-Khirbeh and the battle of Quneitra to distract the factions from action on Al-Sheikh Miskeen. The proof [for treason] is that MOC dismissed several factions that did not respond to the orders to open the battles of Al-Khirbeh and Quneitra. The orders were to shell Al-Khirbeh and the hills in Quneitra from a distance without attacking. Examine my words [and] then stand as one man. Your people are waiting for you so that they can return to their country. Remember your detained relatives; they thirst for you to open the door of detention centers and let them out. By God I have told you, so bear witness.
Hand at heart: does it really matter?
Namely, whether one wants to declare that story for 'conspiracy theory', 'conspiracy excuse for loss of Sheikh Mishkin' or anything else, one thing is indisputable. That is the Sunni Arab world-view. And particularly the Syrian Sunni Arab world-view.
So, keep in mind the way Syrian Sunnis see the situation:
- they are fighting against Assad who has committed all sorts of atrocities against them;
- they are fighting an invasion of the IRGC and its mercenaries;
- and a Russian invasion, terror and atrocities too.
And they are all convinced - and one can't really tell them this is not truth (at least not with straight face) - that they have been betrayed by the West, and particularly the USA.
Then keep in mind plenty of GCC-Arabs are already considering the USA (and West) their 'enemies' alone because of the loss of Iraq (not to talk about Wahhabists between them considering the sheer US/Western presence in the Middle East for 'haram'). From their POV, Americans are meanwhile good only for one thing: selling them more of advanced arms.
...and now it's not only going to be Syrian Sunnis, but 'all' Sunnis in the Middle East, who are going to see themselves and their religion as under direct attack by four major foreign powers.
I wonder, ladies and gentlemen, if anybody here can answer the resulting question: what good can this bring?
In what kind of f.... 'higher national interest' of anybody in the West can this be?
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CrowBat...appears moves being made by Turkey are making Putin nervous or at least his MoD especially when Turkey turned down their Open Skies flight request.......
Something no NATO country has done since the Open Skies treaty was signed....and surprise surprise not a single comment by NATO or the US.....an Putin and his MoD are angry nothing is being said by NATO or the US concerning the Turkish refusal.
So will Turkey the defender of the Ottoman Empire and the defenders of the faith KSA make any moves...if they do not then they are acceding regional control to Iran....IMO.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 02-04-2016 at 05:35 PM.
Alleged strikes of Rus aircraft on territories w/ no sign of ISIS terrorists." -@mod_russia Pictured, exactly that:
pic.twitter.com/aZfg8rpyXs
The #Syria stuff put out by the Kremlin is starting to look like a case for Professor Wedeen
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/bo...o22776830.html
pic.twitter.com/PHkI9BdJw8
.@mod_russia images claim to show construction at Bab-al-Hawa border post from Oct26 - Jan30
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36...b%20al%20salam … pic.twitter.com/HZos01as3v
Apparently this is the best @mod_russia came up with while trying to prove imminent Turkish invasion https://twitter.com/Mortis_Banned/st...92222795878402 …
Минобороны России
@mod_russia Russian MoD registers a growing number of signs of hidden preparation of the Turkish Armed Forces for active actions on territory of #SYRIA
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Artillery on the border, camps set up on the border, sending fighters and gear over. Oh wait, that was Ukraine
Russia Won't Forget Turkey 'Aiding Terrorists' – Lavrov:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/a...ov/558683.html …
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Syria Mass Exodus now in N-#Aleppo -70.000 flee from #Russia'n airstrikes & regime assault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_J...ature=youtu.be …
pic.twitter.com/Lys8yBWd2I
Seems Russia has started supplying PKP Pechenegs to units of the Syrian army. Suqur-Al-Sahra soldier pictured.
pic.twitter.com/ZEhODOvPXK
Michael Weiss ✔ @michaeldweiss
#Russia strikes displace over 150,000 in #Daraa: rebel media #Syria
http://mme.cm/ETAW00
via @NOW_eng
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Michael Weiss
@michaeldweiss A very curious anti-ISIS campaign that admits it's not going after ISIS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/wo...=tw-share&_r=0 …
As Syria Talks Fizzle, ‘War Has No Meaning Anymore’
By ANNE BARNARDFEB. 4, 2016
GENEVA — Four Syrian rebel commanders huddled in a knot, all broad shoulders and shiny gray suits, surveying the hotel lounge. Gigantic portraits of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix gazed down at the carpet, a checkerboard of faux zebra-hide in squares of orange and magenta. On a low sofa, a couple snuggled to the sounds of Amy Winehouse.
The fighters decamped to a smokers’ enclosure behind a plate-glass window, its back wall a trompe-l’oeil image of electric-blue waves that made it seem as though they were submerged in a fish tank. It was an effect that fit their mood. They were in Geneva, notionally at least, for peace talks, but back in Syria, the government and its Russian allies were battering insurgents with scores of airstrikes. With their men under fire, the commanders were asking themselves how much longer they could credibly stay.
“Maybe a day,” one, Maj. Hassan Ibrahim, said on Monday night.
In an interview earlier, under the watchful eye of an adviser from Saudi Arabia, Major Ibrahim had dutifully projected strength and determination. But when the Saudi man walked away, the Syrian, who had defected from the government army in 2011, leaned forward and confided that the fighters he led in southern Syria were struggling. Supplies of weapons and salaries from the United States and its allies are dwindling. Moving in and out of Jordan is getting harder.
“They are doing it to put pressure on us to accept a political process,” he said, one in which he doubted that the Syrian government — or Russia, a sponsor of the talks — would make any compromise.
Major Ibrahim was reflecting a growing foreboding among the opposition’s fighters and civilians, mirrored by growing hope on the government side, that Washington, interested only in bombing the Islamic State militant group, is ceding the field to Russia and leaving the opposition on its own.
So much in Geneva this week was exactly like the last round of Syria peace talks in the city two years ago. Soft-lit hotel lobbies sweltered in the heat of glass fireplaces. Room service offered staple Syrian food — “Oriental mezze” — for about $40, which in Syria might constitute two weeks’ decent wages. Government and opposition delegates still seemed to be coming from different planets and witnessing different wars.
And yet something fundamental had changed. Two years ago, for all the skepticism and ultimate lack of results, there was a measure of pomp and circumstance. It was the first time the opposition had participated in formal talks, a kind of international recognition for the ragtag group of dissidents and insurgents. By the same token, it provided a stage for President Bashar al-Assad’s government to show it was still an international player. And it was significant, after all, merely to have the warring parties pass each other in corridors, look each other in the eye.
Back then, the Islamic State was a novelty, a fringe group that controlled a few areas. It was also a novelty for Syrian journalists who support the opposition, in the safety of Switzerland, to stick microphones in the faces of government officials and ask freely about attacks on civilians.
This time, there was, on both sides, grim resignation to a longer conflict, with darker results. The death toll has doubled since the last Geneva gathering, and the Islamic State, not even a party to the talks, has swallowed half of Syria’s territory.
Two years ago, the demonstrators protesting outside the United Nations building were Syrians who had immigrated to Switzerland or neighboring countries long before conflict broke out in their homeland. Now, many are recent refugees who fled bombings, extremist militants or the secret police during the civil war.
Government supporters are still calling for a victory, but one that builds in some ugly contingencies. In conversations around Geneva, more furtive and rarer than last time, they spoke of leaving the Islamic State for now to rule the eastern city of Raqqa. (“Not a priority,” one said of the remote provincial city.)
They also brushed off questions about the bombings of schools, with a number of contradictory excuses: There are no civilians there, they are only the children of fighters, the schools are closed, the schools are teaching Islamism.
On the other side, some antigovernment activists like Adnan Hadad, 31, were asking themselves where the uprising went wrong. He had little patience for government supporters who denied systematic attacks on civilians, or for opposition partisans who denied the rise of hard-line Islamists in their ranks.
“We can’t deny that Nusra is among us,” Mr. Hadad said, referring to Qaeda-linked fighters entangled with rebel groups on the battlefield. “It would be like saying this lake is made of milk.”
Mr. Hadad was walking across a footbridge as a sapphire dusk descended on Lake Geneva. Neon signs lit up, advertising Swiss watchmakers, their stained-glass colors reflected on the water. The waterfront buildings, so solid and staid and clean, sat heavily along the shore like gold watches in velvet cases.
They could not have been more different from the jagged cinder-block rubble and delicate, half-destroyed caravansaries of Mr. Hadad’s hometown, Aleppo. He had visited from Turkey a few weeks before to record some footage, and his mind lingered there, on a cafe owner called Abu Ibrahim, briskly handing out cups of coffee with tears in his eyes, with only the briefest glance across the street at a row of nine unclaimed bodies.
“The people who still live with it every day are not even allowed to cry, because they know there will be more tomorrow, and the day after and the day after,” Mr. Hadad said, talking in part about himself. “But you don’t want to develop that resistance — to not care about people dying.”
He tried to stay focused on what passed for hope: Syrians were still united, if only by common suffering. On both sides of divided Aleppo, he said, gunmen ask for IDs at checkpoints, electricity fluctuates, shells fall, and people make plans for a dash to Europe.
On New Year’s Eve, he recalled, he was in a front-line building with insurgents who declared they had “a surprise” for government troops nearby. At midnight, they unleashed mortars — and shells came crashing back, nearly hitting the building where Mr. Hadad was.
Was there a military purpose?
“Absolutely not,” he said. “The war has no meaning anymore.”
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SAA airstrikes on #Erbeen
#Damascus cs #Syria FEB 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj5qYUAHx-8 … …
Aleppo Hospital full with victims of #Russia airstrikes in several neighborhoods of the region.. #Syria FEB 4
SCD @SyriaCivilDef rescue boy under rubble, victim #Russia airstrikes on #alShaer neighborhood #Aleppo #Syria FEB 4
Whenever regime declares a town "liberated" all I see is foreign militants w/ religious flags in ghost towns w/ not a single civilian around
Ahrar al-Sham says it extends its hands to rebel factions wanting to merge into one group
Ahrar again demonstrates like in the last years it is the most honest Group willing to sacrifice all for unity.
New - Ahrar al-Sham announces its full withdrawal from #Geneva process & calls for opposition unity on the ground:
Ahrar Statement
1. Withdraw from even attending Geneva
2. Blame Arab and Muslim world (leaders)
3. Call on Unity
As long as the #US & #EU won't accept to truly confront #Russia on #Syria (& #Ukraine) & keep feigning to negotiate, conflicts will endure..
The #US is now a crippled power. Both US & #Europe make huge mistake of thinking negotiation w/ #Russia is possible.
Why was the 1st Crusade in 1099 "successfull"?
Muslims were divided, cared only about their local fiefdoms, profits.
Same today re: Shia...
Russian, Iranian, Afghan & Iraqi Shia hordes burn, maim & plunder Syria.
While the sunni Syrian Population is killed or cleansed out of it.
Assad’s strategy of ‘cleansing’ his population is now being rapidly accelerated by #Russia’s more capable airforce. Nobody stopping it.
The US under the Obama WH has now formally lost against the Russian non linear warfare both in eastern Ukraine and now Syria.....pity the next President as he or she will have to dig themselves out of a very deep hole...
This is literally the worst President, NSC and DoS in 70 years...this failure of Kerry's and a lack of any so called Obama strategy represents this failure...
Obama/Kerry…….…….. Well done - #Syria now depopulated….the results of absolutely no ME strategy or for that matter no strategy for anything…………
Syria ~200.000 people flee from #Assad-forces assault backed #Russia'n airstrikes in northern & southern #Aleppo
Syria Mass Exodus now in N-#Aleppo -70.000 flee from #Russia'n airstrikes & regime assault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_J...ature=youtu.be …
URGENT: countless Syrians r fleeing N #Aleppo to #Turkey, hoping to escape the regime
https://youtu.be/go_J8dCEC8w
Russia, #Iran & their puppets finish their etnic cleansing in northern #Syria now.
Sunni arab population wipped out
The border is still closed!!!
Up to tens of thousands are approaching it now!
Situation like #KOBANE but no one cares!
Ukraine and the UAF had better pay close attention to this development as it does not bode well for them as the US is pressuring the Ukraine to unilaterally cave to Putin's demand as well......
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 02-04-2016 at 07:09 PM.
So again just what did Kerry state in Geneva concerning Assad/Russian bombing of civilians and the use of starvation....appears no one listened to him.......
Aftermath of Assad bombing in Teir Maalah, #Homs, #Syria
http://youtu.be/7uPihlkIp3Y
Aftermath of 50 #Russia|n airstrikes in Anadan, #Aleppo, #Syria
http://youtu.be/MhoQKd54IcE
Complete & utter destruction in al-Mash’had district in #Aleppo following #Russia|n airstrikes
http://youtu.be/QQKsunAMz-g
A mother finds the remains of her son following #Russia|n airstrikes in Hraytan, #Aleppo, #Syria
http://youtu.be/pGjJIBjgumQ
Searching for survivors following #Russia|n airstrikes in al-Sha’ar district in #Aleppo
http://youtu.be/9MsGG_m7taE
http://youtu.be/iUbs8EpC_LA
Aleppo: Syrian Rebels still holding out in Rityan & repelled pro Assad offensives
Rebels kill over 20 regime soldiers and capture weapons in Akrad Mountain #Latakia countryside.
Boy victim of #SAA shelling targeting the IDP Camp of #alTofahah village in #Jisr_alShghour
#Idlib #Syria FEB 4
House of little boy Baha, bombed by #Russia in #Kafr_Takharim, killed him & wounded parents #Idlib #Syria FEB 4
15 martyrs victims of #Russia airstrikes on #Kallaseh & #alMashad neighborhoods
#Aleppo #Syria FEB 4
Russia airstrikes targeting the valley of #alHoula
#Homs #Syria FEB 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW14jHZ0Lis …
SAA airstrikes on #Erbeen
#Damascus cs #Syria FEB 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj5qYUAHx-8 … …
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Saudi Embassy @SaudiEmbassyUSA ·
Saudi Ministry of Defense spokesman: Saudi Arabia ready to send ground troops to Syria to fight Daesh (ISIS) if asked.
So an invitation from the HNC and FSA would in theory be enough....as Russia is definitely not fighting IS......
Another very interesting picture with Russian soldiers and a GAZ Tigr. Anyone good at identifying RU patches?
pic.twitter.com/xOgyoBYPTs
Syria #FSA take out 14.5 mm gun in #Latakia mountains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi99U90vMDc …
pic.twitter.com/rdLDmfYjo5
Pretexts being set. Davutoğlu: #Assad is planning to starve #Aleppo by attempting to cut the humanitarian supply lines from #Turkey..
BreakingNews Turkish Diplomat: #Turkey has all the rights to take all procedures to protect its security and interests..
Putin now has to deal with a possible two front Sunni engagement into Syria...notice the KSA indicated they would join others that would fight IS...so are the Turks now on the move????????
Aleppo is the red line.....and both will move....as opposed to the Obama red line that no one believed.....
On The Back Of Russian Airstrikes In Syria, Assad Regime Threatens To Encircle Aleppo
http://bit.ly/23LBp2F
pic.twitter.com/HrHr7b2iyn
SANA just released a vid of SAA dropping fliers over Northern Homs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N80bM6axotg …
Fighting in 'Atman' Daraa - T-55MV, T-72, Su-24 doing CAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWPWXFsGTPs …
Found that Russian KAMAZ ECM/HQ/Radio truck (or similar) seen driving to Hmeimem in Oct, in mountains of Latakia.
Heavy fightings as Tiger Forces fight to control Sarhan farms and Al Siin village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeF5uqb0QGY …
Commander of Suqur al Sahra,Mohammed Jaber, and commander of Tiger Forces, Col Hassan pictured together in Homs 2015
CrowBat.......
Went back and have reposted that specific TOW attack.....as it first came across as just hitting a group of people........
BGM-71 TOW by North Div against people on rooftop, seems to have hit the outside wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90_p3zItH8 …
Appears to have been the anti tank warhead as the damage was larger than the video first indicated...
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 02-04-2016 at 08:24 PM.
Russian Syrian Express is northbound again......
Russian Navy's Ropucha Class Large Landing Ship Yamal 156 is returning from Syria on the 10th day.
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