Syria in 2016 (January-March)

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CrowBat...have you heard much about this move........

Syria Videos Since January 2016 Show that 12 Militant Groups Have All joined "The guards of the Levant movement"

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Not confirmed nor geo tagged and or dated......

NorthernAleppo Alleged Photo of Qassem Soleimani in #Nubbol #Nubl & #Zahra #Zahraa

#Syria #Aleppo #NothernAleppo Unconfirmed Reports say #SAA & #YPG #Kurds Set up Joint Check Point

RUSSIA still bombarding #Tafas town with it`s prohibited Cluster Bombs moments ago
#Daraa #Syria FEB 6

SCD collect #Russia Cluster Bombs in #Tafas aftermath it`s airstrikes
#Daraa #Syria FEB 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5RT4vYGuCw …

Breaking: #Russia will shoot down Turkish jets in #Syria, Deputy Defense Minister says -
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/wor....PLxU0C0V.dpuf …

This is a perfect case of Russia disinformation as the last sentence clearly indicates that the Turks have to adhere to the Russia/US flight safety
memorandum when flying in Syria.....

Russia airstrikes targeting the National Hospital of #Palmyra
#Homs #Syria FEB 6

Occasionally I still bump into Kremlin media articles from back in September debunking the "Russians in Syria" rumor http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/p...roops_syria-0/ …



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Does Kerry have any earthly idea what he is doing as the head of DoS....BUT at least it is better late than never.......social media has been saying this for the last three months and during that period Obama and Kerry were totally silent....

U.S. Embassy Syria 
‏@USEmbassySyria #SecKerry: You have to have a negotiation to arrive at the modalities of all parties complying & providing access & providing 4 a ceasefire.

Over 1000 air strikes in 72 hours and a major ground offensive later we get this statement......he seems to ignor all basic laws of soft and hard powers and diplomacy.

U.S. Embassy Syria 
‏@USEmbassySyria #SecKerry on bombardment of civilians in #Syria: This has to stop. But it’s not going to stop by walking away from the table or not engaging.

BUT THEN the US floods twitter with these......

.@JohnKerry: In some cases after the bombing has taken place, #Russian bombers come back & kill ppl who are pulling out the wounded. #Syria

.@JohnKerry: There is clear evidence that #Russia is using dumb bombs, & there are civilians being killed in large numbers as a consequence.

.@JohnKerry: All aerial & artillery bombardment of civilians should have ended, according 2 #UNSCR2254 that #Russia voted for, and it hasn’t

.@JohnKerry: UNSCR2254 called for immediate #HumanitarianAccess to all Syrians. Neither Asad regime nor its supporters have made that happen

.@JohnKerry: Neither #Russia nor Asad nor the supporters of Asad are at this moment in compliance w/ the #UNSCR2254.
http://goo.gl/6yOocW

THEN if all of these comments are correct..why has the US now called an emergency UNSC meeting to discuss Russian failures to implement the resolution???
BUT WAIT Russia has not fulfilled a single point in Minsk 2 so why would they "honor" any old UNSC resolution?????

Not sure how anyone in current administration can look themselves in the mirror after statements like this.

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Syria IR / Laser ATGM warning system ? spotted on ZSU-23-4 Shilka
pic.twitter.com/p3MhjUg0eA

Shooting at unexploded cluster munitions in Syria as an unconventional method of UXO removal
https://youtu.be/dBRuVVeTjPo

Ground truth today in #Syria| Yellow: #YPG| Black: #Daesh| Red: #SAA| Green: FSA + Islamist rebels @jenanmoussa
pic.twitter.com/4I73Ubmlxr

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Kind of encompasses the Obama WH ...........

"The fog of disorder is thickening...The guardians of order are overwhelmed & underperforming."—@Ischinger #MSC2016

Liz Sly ‏@LizSly
What the US calls "assertive diplomacy" to get a ceasefire in Syria is looking more & more like failed diplomacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...93f_story.html …

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Interview with #Ahrar Commander Regarding Military Developments
https://youtu.be/HASOGDJ3lks

[Dishonesty]

New longer video Su-35S
RT Ruptly 1:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVEWipSx5k

Interesting mix combat load:
Wing tip 2xECM pod
Outer wing pylon 2xR-73 (Dogfighter IR seeker)
Central wing pylon 2xR-27T (Medium range IR seeker)
Inner wing pylon 2xR-77 "AMRAAMski" (Medium range Active RF seeker)

Attention video time 1:23 Take-off Su-35S (Red No.5) only 1 R-77-maybe flight hours limit.

[CrowBat]

CrowBat...have you heard much about this move........

Syria Videos Since January 2016 Show that 12 Militant Groups Have All joined "The guards of the Levant movement"

The group in question is result of that recent merger of Jabhat ash-Shamiya and Kataib Thuwar ash-Sham, which I've reported several days ago.

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That said... proportions of IRGC's deployment to Syria are now reaching (for me) 'mindblowing' proportions. Financing, recruiting, and training of quasi-NDF 'battalions' that then turned Hezbollah/Syria, or SSNP, BPM etc.... financing, recruiting, trianing and deploying 20,000 Iraqi Shi'a... 'all OK' - and 'nothing new' since August-September 2013.

But, I would never expect to see the IRGC deploying what appears to be up to 10.000 own troops and Basiji - i.e. IRANIAN - combatants into a de-facto military invasion of Syria.

And there's not a peeps from the West about this...

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This is strange...Iran is getting roughly 50-100B and has already gotten that amount......why the need for a Russian 5B loan?.....the costs of their Syrian adventure has been high but still.....

Iranians want Russia to give them $5 billion loan
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2911071
pic.twitter.com/BoaqcokMC2

Closer view at the Buk-M2E inside a HAS in Mazze AB pic.twitter.com/JKAx3IwPEq

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Is this really Kerry's comments...notice the clinging to soft power at this stage in Syria it is very clear force on force will be the only thing that Putin understands......especially since Kerry has the Putin response model in front of him from eastern Ukraine....

U.S. Embassy Syria 
‏@USEmbassySyria #SecKerry: I said to Putin, "if all you’re trying to do is leave Asad in place, the war won't end & there will be more terrorists created.”

So what is it that Kerry is not seeing what the Brit MSM sees.......?????

"If there were any doubts about Russia’s objectives in Syria, events around Aleppo will surely have cleared them": http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...ssian-military …

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For those SWJ readers...the tone coming out of Turkey the last three days is getting actually more pointed and sharper...turkey will cross the border as will KSA......that places Assad and Putin facing a potential two front conflict.

Putin with his continued heavy civilian air strikes and the moves on Aleppo will get what he wants....a conflict with a NATO member....

Clear resolve by Erdogan that Turkey might interfere in Syria to protect interests. Interesting point on 2003
pic.twitter.com/IpgU3JDktk

Erdogan says it was wrong for Turkish parliament to vote against allowing US troops to use Turkey in invasion of Iraq in 2003

He says that vote meant Turkey was not on the table on Iraq, and same can't be repeated in Syria

No doubt #Turkey will try to use the situation to push #US into backing a safezone again. #Obama too weak to decide. https://twitter.com/anshelpfeffer/st...45211714842624 …

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Another night of cluster bomb attacks just north of Homs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_XBB_BUnY …

Humanitarian Relief @IHHen
IHH has started to distribute hot meals to 20,000 Syrians who have come to the Turkish border to save their lives.
pic.twitter.com/lW3lBJTktL

Humanitarian Relief @IHHen
More than 55 thousand Syrians are now living in IHH's camps on the Turkish-Syrian border.

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Interesting article .........in that Putin and Lavrov are constantly lying
Russian banks, lies and emojis - Very good by @mashagessen in @nytimes on #Russia and the tradition of public lying http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/op...ype=collection …


Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
Thoughtless actions of #NATO states have brought the Middle East region into the chaos, not the Rus #AerospaceForces
http://on.fb.me/1PI5OsK

Read the NYTs article and then reread the Russian MoD statement...part of the Obama and Kerry problem is that they do not understand the standard Russian lying concept...thus they think they can come to agreements with Putin....but Putin simply says yes and really means NO....

Even in the face of the utter truth backed by countless videos the MoD makes this statement?????

Social media has been pointing that out now for two years and yet the WH does not seem to "get it"....

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Jaysh al-Islam killed over 50 #Assad soldiers tried to advance around Brig 39 in #EastGhouta #Damascus @aboasssem92

Video: #RuAF airstrike during IV with Major Yasir Abdulrahim, Commander of #Aleppo Ops Room.
http://eldorar.com/node/94439

List of 36 Iranian Generals & Officers killed north #Aleppo in 2 days fighting for #Assad - @Arabi21News

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The group in question is result of that recent merger of Jabhat ash-Shamiya and Kataib Thuwar ash-Sham, which I've reported several days ago.

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That said... proportions of IRGC's deployment to Syria are now reaching (for me) 'mindblowing' proportions. Financing, recruiting, and training of quasi-NDF 'battalions' that then turned Hezbollah/Syria, or SSNP, BPM etc.... financing, recruiting, trianing and deploying 20,000 Iraqi Shi'a... 'all OK' - and 'nothing new' since August-September 2013.

But, I would never expect to see the IRGC deploying what appears to be up to 10.000 own troops and Basiji - i.e. IRANIAN - combatants into a de-facto military invasion of Syria.

And there's not a peeps from the West about this...

CrowBat...this might then be the reason that the Iranians have asked Russia for a 5B USD "loan"......after receiving between 50-100B already from the US....

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NOT a single peep out of the Obama WH on this development...NOR absolutely no comments coming from western MSM as well..

Basically an Iranian Shia invasion of Syria has occurred and an utter wall of silence from the West......and yet they wonder what Turkey and the Saudi's are up to.......

List of 36 Iranian Generals & Officers killed north #Aleppo in 2 days fighting for #Assad - @Arabi21News

Again the question is is Russia more of an existential threat overall to the US or is IS or in the case of Syria....Iran.....????

Right now the Russian non linear warfare geo political goals are matching exactly those of Iran and all the while Obama and Kerry do not have a clue....on how to respond other than with just words, and or simple comments as if they "words" can stop the deliberate targeting of civilians by the Assad AF and the RuAF..........

NOT a single call by either Obama and Kerry to take Russia in front of the UNSC for violating THREE UNSC resolutions.....THREE that even Russia signed off on......

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Would like to remind the Obama WH and especially Kerry about this 2014 article that almost fits the current Kerry/Assad/Iranian/Russian FP being driven by Kerry and denied at the same time by Kerry....

Words often come back to haunt..........

Here is Tony Badran @AcrossTheBay predicting almost word for word how Kerry would bring Iran into Syria.
Article dated Jan 31, 2014

Where is again US MSM on this issue...nowhere to be seen and or heard....

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Kerry's statements via the US Embassy are going to from meaning really nothing at all and or to totally being pathetic........

U.S. Embassy Syria 
‏@USEmbassySyria #SecKerry: We'll know in the next few days who is serious & who is not. That has always been the intention of the diplomatic process.

Word for word exactly what he used as the argument to force the HNC to Geneva AND here is the key ALMOST exactly what he is forcing the Ukraine to do in the US pressure on Ukraine to commit to unilateral appeasement moves ALL designed by Kerry and Obama to "save Putin's face"......

[OUTLAW 09]

Kerry's statements via the US Embassy are going to from meaning really nothing at all and or to totally being pathetic........

U.S. Embassy Syria 
‏@USEmbassySyria #SecKerry: We'll know in the next few days who is serious & who is not. That has always been the intention of the diplomatic process.

Word for word exactly what he used as the argument to force the HNC to Geneva AND here is the key ALMOST exactly what he is forcing the Ukraine to do in the US pressure on Ukraine to commit to unilateral appeasement moves ALL designed by Kerry and Obama to "save Putin's face"......

THIS is a clear and concise example of just how bad the Obama WH has gotten AND how bad they are getting caught in their own spun web of lies......

Obama and Kerry now have virtually no creditability in the entire ME and it is sinking fast in the eastern Ukraine.....where there has been major attacks over the last two months...YET Kerry stated after a visit to Putin...with "efforts and some good faith" we can lift the Russian sanctions..

John Kirby
‏@statedeptspox @Charles_Lister Story wrong. @JohnKerry didn't blame oppo for collapse of talks, doesn't have comms w/regime & hasn't wavered on Assad.

Charles Lister
‏@Charles_Lister John Kerry to #Syria aid workers in #London:

"Don’t blame me, go & blame your opposition"

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/op...ry=/VnexnHjxny …

No comms w/regime? So what's Nir Rosen doing btwn WH & Damascus? Drafting an ultimate frisbee team?

.@KyleWOrton will @statedeptspox go on record that former NSC staffer Steven Simon was not sent by WH to speak w/Assad regime?

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Kerry trolls as badly as does the Russian FM Lavrov.....both lie constantly and think the social media does not catch it...MSM does not notice anything anyway....

Department of State 
‏@StateDept The U.S. continues our leadership in responding to the crisis in #Syria. Read the latest:
https://goo.gl/an2idR .

There is no US leadership either in Syria and or eastern Ukraine outside of Tweets and press conferences....