No casualties due to Russian airstrikes in Syria", says Kremlin. For reality, check @SyriaCivilDef's TL. http://m.ria.ru/syria/20160209/1371810463.html …Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Russia's #Putin rejects #Germany's #Merkel's criticism of air raids on
#Aleppo #Syria ""No credible evidence""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q06dgMdWCw …
Humanitarian Relief @IHHen
Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing attacks in #Aleppo need food and shelter urgently.
http://online.ihh.org.tr/en/syria
Graphic: Many killed and injured in Russian air strikes targeted Ferdous neighborhood of #Aleppo - @Ahmad_primo
UN Relief Chief Calls on #Assad Regime to Halt Attacks Displacing 30,000 Civils in #Syria
http://ow.ly/3z3a2z
Russia & #Assad Carry out Daily Cluster Bomb Attacks on #Syria
http://ow.ly/3z38sL
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Soooo this happened: a body-building competition in honour of Qasem Soleimani in his home province of Kerman. #Iran
pic.twitter.com/ALtRqolVJa
Still absolutely no video of Soleimani in order to geo tag and confirm he is still alive after his SUV was hit with a TOW.....only photos and they are usually older ones...certainly none in Syria where he was all over the front lines until he was hit and now utter video silence....
#YPG captured the whole #Minaq airbase from the #Syria|n rebels moments ago#Azaz
pic.twitter.com/GV4XmeEpAD
Does the US truly want to push Turkey into making an armed invasion in order to stop the Kurds who supposedly are under US control and influence and who were just visited by a US Special envoy tow days ago but not reported in US MSM......
YPG claims that 1000 Kurdish fighters from #Afrin are heading towards #Azaz "frontline" to capture it from rebels
https://twitter.com/DrPartizan_/stat...69323496615937 …
YPG forces in #Afrin mobilise.
Not to attack/defend against the Shiite militias,but only to attack #Azaz
pic.twitter.com/vLc9IDtaAv
My latest paper on shifts in jihadism in cyberspace & #IslamicState' #SocialMedia strategy:
http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/article/10.15664/jtr.1183/ …
pic.twitter.com/Mly5UDA9JX
Anshel Pfeffer @AnshelPfeffer
A few points on the #Syria situation after 3 days on the Syria-Turkey border
Most rebels now are locals fighting for their own villages/towns against alien outsiders - ISIS and Iran-backed Iraqi/Afghan Shia militias
Assad still has Syrian supporters but nearly all those fighting for him against the rebels are foreigners (Russia, Iran, foreign Shias)
There is no question by now that Russian airpower saved Assad's hind and may have doomed the rebels. As one rebel supporter said...
"the only red-line the U.S. haven't crossed in Syria, is the red-line against giving rebels anti-aircraft missiles to defend themselves"
JUST as the US would not provide TOWs to the UAF which is under massive Russian attacks tonight in Donbas.
WHY..somehow this so called Obama WH fully and truly believes one cannot win via a military solution.....
BUT WAIT just what is Putin banking on...a military solution and what do we hear from Obama and Kerry nothing but silence and a few comments from the US Embassy in their names....
Ah..the Obama answer to the Saudi's attacking IS offer comes via DIA, nice......not a word out of this WH....
WHICH means the US absolutely has not a single plan and or idea on how to attack IS other than via air......OR just pure disinformation at work.....
Syria DIA Stewart: "I do NOT assess that #Saudi G. forces wld have the capacity to take this fight on (in Syria)".
http://www.c-span.org/video/?404436-...ats&start=5844 …
DIA Gen. Stewart looks unsurprisingly amused. To put it in perspective, KSA is the biggest arms importer, top 5 military expenditure.
So who is he trying to fool???
SAA T-55AM with slat armour
pic.twitter.com/V2kRkdhHOJ
4 ppl were killed & 12 wounded - 7 of them children - in #Russia's attacks N of #Aleppo today
Here are their names:
pic.twitter.com/vAkEKSJojL
At least 15 killed & 10s wounded in #Russia|n airstrikes on an IDP camp in Afes, rural #Idlib, #Syria today
Moment #Russia airstrikes targeted the #IDP of #Efis village
#Idlib cs #Syria FEB 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRorj8F8gEA …
MSF International
@MSF BREAKING: Airstrikes have hit an MSF-supported hospital in Dara’a, southern Syria, killing 3 people & wounding at least 6 including a nurse
Probably the local hospital in Saida, #Daraa hit several hours ago by Russian airstrikes; now out of service
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US cannot be is serious about this or typical Russian disinformation......
Russia's Lavrov: U.S. considering Russian proposal on #Syria: RIA
1- Close northern borders with Turkey
2- Assad/Iran regime stay in power
3- FSA fight Nusra and ISIL under Assad
Joint Kurdish & Assad militias assault on #Aleppo corridor continue. #YPG capture new positions near Menagh airbase.
Rebels will not be able to hold the attacks from 3 directions YPG/ISIL/Assad on their positions in north #Aleppo corridor for long.
FSA Victory by blowing Assad militia minibus near al-Masoura in Ghab plain.
https://youtu.be/fvnU5pzt_xQ
SAA Terrorists dropping 4 explosive cylinders at once over #Darayya
#Damascus #Syria FEB 9
Faylaq al-Sham take out regime 23 mm gun near Zahra north #Aleppo.
https://youtu.be/zwHGpMyuDZs
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Syria #Confirmed:TR intelligence informed defected officers to be ready to go into Syria within specific formations
#SAA helicopters dropped Weapons and AID supplies on #Kefraya & #Fouah
#Idlib #Syria FEB 9
#US_Coalition warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #alShameteiyah village
#DeirEzzor #Syria FEB 9
#RUSSIA warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Kafr_Kalbin village
#aleppo cs #Syria FEB 9
RUSSIA warplanes carried out airstrikes on #Kafr_Khashir village, entire family under rubble
#Aleppo cs #Syria FEB 9
Ammo truck hit by #TOW #ATGM.
Btw, why aim at cabin instead of the rear where the ammo is?
https://youtu.be/beybHuissVo
14,5mm gun taken out by #TOW #ATGM in #Nubul corridor.
https://youtu.be/OapitoSQ6vU
Ambushes like this are cost efficient and slowly degrade enemy.
https://youtu.be/NFuNGYYMBhU
4 Martyrs victims of #Russia airstrikes on #Dael
#Daraa #Syria FEB 9
SCD rescue operation aftermath #Russia airstrikes on #Alaamareiyah neighborhood, 5 martyrs
#Aleppo #Syria FEB 9
RUSSIA warplanes carried out airstrikes on #Syria - #Turkey border, #putin provoking #Erdogan. Via @HadiAlabdallah
SCD rescued 6 martyrs under rubble including 2 children, victims of #Russia airstrikes on #Talmenes #Syria FEB 9
SCD Rescue op. aftermath #Russia airstrikes targeting Refugee Camp of #Efis village, 6 martyrs
#Idlib #Syria FEB 9
Martyrs & destruction aftermath #Russia airstrikes on #alFatirah town..
#Idlib #Syria FEB 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8WRcjLFM4c …
Russian Su-24Ms joining the fray. (Unguided) bombs all seem to miss however.
pic.twitter.com/PbdvfkJJkH
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A long article but it must be read to the end in order to fully understand the total failure of the Obama and Kerry Syrian FP......
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-...b_9194624.html
Exodus and Betrayal. How a Syrian Nakba Was Created
02/09/2016 11:25 am ET
David Hearst
Editor, Middle East Eye
John Kerry, the US Secretary of State reportedly came close to revealing his true thoughts when he was accosted by two Syrian aid workers at a reception in London after the collapse of the Geneva talks last week.
The Syrians accused him of doing nothing to protect civilians from the onslaught they were facing in Aleppo. One of the aid workers, who asked to remain anonymous to protect her organization, told Middle East Eye that Kerry replied : 'Don't blame me - go and blame your opposition." The aid worker said Kerry blamed the government offensive on the opposition walking out of the talks.
Kerry got flustered in the encounter: "What do you want me to do? Go to war with Russia? Is that what you want?" the aid worker said Kerry told her. Kerry then anticipated three months of bombing during which time " the opposition will be decimated."
Kerry's off-mike encounter deviated significantly from the official line. This was that Russia and Iran had offered Washington a ceasefire. Kerry's remarks differed also from the State Department's mantra that the brutality of Assad against the Syrian people had helped foster the growth of the Islamic State group. Apparently now, Syrians who resisted Assad's brutality were responsible for the barrel bombs being dropped on them.
After multiple avowals that Assad's army was on the point of collapse and after the ill-fated CIA training programmes, Syrian rebels are being sold down the river by the country that urged them to rise up five years ago.
The Deraa protests started peacefully. To that, all witnesses attest. Four factors turned those protests into an armed uprising: the brutality of the regime's response, Assad's decision to release jihadis from Sednaya Prison, an act which "islamised" the opposition, the Libyan intervention, and the intervention of foreign powers - Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The scenes today on the Turkish border are direct consequence of Obama's "intervention-lite" in Syria - a drip feed of weapons - but only 16 bullets per fighter per month. The Free Syrian Army has reportedly stopped receiving weapons for four months. Barack Obama boasted he was leading from behind in the Libyan intervention. That has changed in Syria. He is wringing his hands from behind.
There can be little doubt that Kerry's policy is twisting in the wind as a result of the Russian intervention. That much was evident from Kerry's meeting with Riyad Hijab general coordinator of the High Negotiations Committee, the body formed in Riyadh in response to American pleas for unity.
Kerry told Hijab that talks must begin before the bombardment stopped, that there was no timetable for Assad's departure; that the objective of the talks would be nothing less than a national unity government; and that the failure of the opposition going to Geneva would mean US cutting off aid to the opposition. Michael Ratney, US Special Envoy to Syria, attempted over to smooth things over by claiming there had been a misunderstanding caused by bad translation. But Hijab understood Kerry all too clearly.
Kerry's Damascene conversion took place in four stages. The first was Assad's chemical attack on opposition positions in Ghouta, in Eastern Damascus, which paved the way for Russian mediation which persuaded Assad to give up his stockpile of chemical weapons. This gave Russia a good argument to use with Kerry who refused at the time to recognise Assad's authority: If Assad was legitimate enough to negotiate with over the surrender of his chemical stockpile, he surely had to remain as head of a transitional government. Either way he had to be recognised as the de facto head of state. This is the logic Kerry has now accepted.
The second was Mosul, a city held by four divisions of the Iraqi army trained by the US to the tune of $25 billion which was captured by 350 ISIS fighters. The third was the Russian intervention on October 30 and the final nail in the coffin of Kerry's Syria policy was the attacks in Paris in November. Gradually Kerry began to see Assad as the lesser of two evils. Kerry bought into Sergei Lavrov's line that Russia had saved Damascus from falling into the hands of IS.
Kerry has come dangerously close to seeing the Syrian conflict as a binary fight between two forms of ruthless dictatorship - Assad and the Islamic State group . This is exactly how Assad himself, Russia, Iran and Arab autocracies in Egypt and the Emirates and Jordan, frame the conflict. And it is one of the main reasons why the Islamic State group is growing from strength to strength.
To see the civil war through this prism, you have to persuade yourself that the opposition to Assad consists exclusively of Salafi Jihadi extremists, supported by the Wahabi doctrines of Saudi Arabia and the imperial conceit of Erdogan's Sultanate in Turkey. You have to persuade yourself that the Syrian rebels, like IS, want to impose a brutal theocracy on a secular state.
You have,in short, to airbrush out of this landscape the faces and views of the majority Sunni population. You have to turn a deaf ear to the testimony of 4.6m refugees registered with the UNHCR. Nor are they the last. Another exodus is on its way in Aleppo. There are 150,000 civilians in rebel held eastern Aleppo and up to 250,000 others in the area. 70,000 have crossed into Turkey as a result of the Russian bombing and government advances and 31,000 are waiting at the border. The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday that 600,000 could be heading towards Turkey.
Why do they flee? Whom are they fleeing? Are they forced out by Jihadis imposing Sharia Law ? Are fleeing the warm embrace of a liberal, secular multi-confessional republic, as Assad likes to present himself as leading? If the Syrian army is a disciplined force, as its apologists maintain, why are hundreds of thousands of civilians so terrified of being liberated by it?
I spent a week in the refugee camps on Jordan's northern border asking these questions, going from tent to tent in search of answers. The following is a representative sample of the replies I got.
Meteb was a civil servant, the head of the transportation department in Baba Amr. Homs became the epicentre of anti-government protests, after protests in Deraa had been quelled by a large scale military operation. A Free Syrian Army brigade formed by defecting Syrian Army officers ambushed government forces around Baba Amr in October 2011 and defended the neighbourhood .When an Arab peace mission failed - the Syrian army hid their tanks under fake sand dunes to conceal their presence from the monitors , witnesses claimed - the army launched an offensive in February 2012.
"For six months there were no arms whatsoever. People only started using arms when they witnessed the brutality of the regime. The police would undress the women, force them to strip and put them on the tanks for people to watch." Meteb said.
Continued....a long read......
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Third 9M113 Konkurs shot. Gunner has the choice between a T-55 and a BMP-1, goes for the T-55.
pic.twitter.com/ZilIl90e9Y
Turkey ratchets up the rhetoric towards the US.....
Turkey has summoned U.S. envoy to protest Washington not dubbing Kurdish PYD a "terrorist" organization
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Another TOW video from rebel forces fighting around Aleppo, looks like they've had a new supply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6fP95DY0Ks …
Yikes......has the Obama WH and Kerry seen the white ghost of the Shia 12th imam......?
Kerry: Syria plan B is “to lead a coalition against #ISIL and to support the opposition against Assad.”
http://wpo.st/8CPA1
Sorry he and Obama both seemed to have had been sleeping walking and missed the imam......
“What we’re doing is testing [Russian and Iranian] seriousness,” he said. “And if they’re not serious, then there has to be consideration of a Plan B. . . . You can’t just sit there.”
BUT WAIT is this not the same exact comments just recycled for the Us press that he told the anti Assad opposition and their HNC just before Geneva.....???
WAIT...it was.....
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat."
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Sun Tzu had it right......we absolutely refuse to fully understand what is driving IS and the environment around that development inside Iraq/Syria just as we refuse to fully understand the current opposition in Syria which as a civil society decided they were tired of a 50 year or so dictatorship following the impulse released by a speech by our own President held in the ME of all places.
Then the West/ie the US gets involved in a "discussion" as to what is and or is not a "moderate islamist" instead of listening to that civil society that made the "decision"......and then does nothing to assist them in that transition after that said civil society has paid dearly for their own decisions...ie over 300K killed, over hundreds of thousands injured, tortured and or simply "disappeared forever" and over 12M refugees and IDPs.
THEN we see a US DoS Sec "preaching" to this civil society what is and or is not a "pre condition" which were actually the same as pushed by Kerry and the UNSC....and yet we wonder why the ME thinks the US train has run of the tracks.....?
How many times in the last ten years do we see the term "transnational Shia jihadists" discussed as all we know is AQ/IS, or do we even know how Shariati's Shia Marxism was used by Khomeini to anchor his thinking on "revolutionary islam" or how much do we meaning those that never served in Iraq fully understand that the Iraqi Hezbollah (KH) was fully funded and supported by IRGC which used Iranian smuggled in EFPs like rain on US forces or how many in the US fully understand the creation by and the training of the IRGC by Amal veterans from Lebanon ..or even what was behind "Black September 1970"...the list goes on...and on......
I am not so sure we "even know ourselves lately" thus if we do not know "ourselves and our enemies equally"...yet we wonder/debate why the US FP alone just in the ME is a disaster....not even thinking about eastern Ukraine...where we "know even less"....and it is a disaster....
This WH cannot even get the discussion on non linear warfare "right"......
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Tal Rifaat, N Aleppo under sustained RuAf bombardment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Gt-RbgiOw …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bN7rXeJeoo …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1VwWBSeE_o …
FSA Jaysh al-Mujahdeen send reinforcements to #Aleppo fronts.
Vid: #FSA killed several shia militants near Khan Tuman south #Aleppo
https://youtu.be/NFuNGYYMBhU
Impressive #JaI combat vid from #Ghouta last yrs offensive
Hurry before it is deleted!
https://youtu.be/YImhH2NKVQI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...html?tid=ss_tw
Opinions
Enough is enough — U.S. abdication on Syria must come to an end
By Michael Ignatieff and Leon Wieseltier February 9 at 9:09 AM
Michael Ignatieff is the Edward R. Murrow professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. Leon Wieseltier is the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution.
I would argue that Bosnia is drifting politically/economically currently and that basically the Dayton Accords to a degree largely failed....at least it stopped the killing.....As Russian planes decimate Aleppo, and hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s largest city prepare for encirclement, blockade and siege — and for the starvation and the barbarity that will inevitably follow — it is time to proclaim the moral bankruptcy of American and Western policy in Syria.
Actually, it is past time. The moral bankruptcy has been long in the making: five years of empty declarations that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go, of halfhearted arming of rebel groups, of allowing the red line on chemical weapons to be crossed and of failing adequately to share Europe’s refugee burden as it buckles under the strain of the consequences of Western inaction. In the meantime, a quarter-million Syrians have died, 7 million have been displaced and nearly 5 million are refugees. Two million of the refugees are children.
This downward path leads to the truly incredible possibility that as the Syrian dictator and his ruthless backers close in on Aleppo, the government of the United States, in the name of the struggle against the Islamic State, will simply stand by while Russia, Assad and Iran destroy their opponents at whatever human cost.
It is time for those who care about the moral standing of the United States to say that this policy is shameful. If the United States and its NATO allies allow their inglorious new partners to encircle and starve the people of Aleppo, they will be complicit in crimes of war. The ruins of our own integrity will be found amid the ruins of Aleppo. Indiscriminate bombardment of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. So is the use of siege and blockade to starve civilians. We need not wait for proof of Assad’s and Vladimir Putin’s intentions as they tighten the noose. “Barrel bombs” have been falling on bread lines and hospitals in the city (and elsewhere in Syria) for some time. Starvation is a long-standing and amply documented instrument in Assad’s tool kit of horrors.
Aleppo is an emergency, requiring emergency measures. Are we no longer capable of emergency action? It is also an opportunity, perhaps the last one, to save Syria. Aleppo is the new Sarajevo, the new Srebrenica, and its fate should be to the Syrian conflict what the fate of Sarajevo and Srebrenica were to the Bosnian conflict: the occasion for the United States to bestir itself, and for the West to say with one voice, “Enough.” It was after Srebrenica and Sarajevo — and after the air campaign with which the West finally responded to the atrocities — that the United States undertook the statecraft that led to the Dayton accords and ended the war in Bosnia.
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The Syrian activist that I keep an eye on his commenting ios currently at 15% and his cell battery is dying so he pushing everything out as it takes a long while to recharge it with limited power in the area where he is working from...and today he is pushing a lot in Arabic.....and Russian...will pick up his bombing reports later today.
Massacres here.. Massacres there.. In Syria, massacres everywhere..
SyriasChildren are slaughtered in #Syira as usual with NO emergency meeting called at the UNSC ?! WTHeck!
Have you asked yourself, why all these people CHOOSE to sleep on the Turkish border but not to #ASSad Regime area?..that's all folks!
Liz Sly @LizSly
A 1-year old Syrian girl died of cold & malnutrition at a Turkish bus station after her parents walked out of Syria http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syr...&NewsCatID=341 …
After checking the source again, I deleted the #Menagh report.
Looks like almost encircled,but "evidence pictures" were old & fr. DeirJamal.
Why would you destroy civilian homes in Talmenes?
One answer:To spread #terror!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGjZtNcPLI …
7dead,20inj
Footage
Russian Orla-10 drone over #Ibtta in #Daraa province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAY6XJ-BgFg …
Footage
S-W #Aleppo area Karam Altarab after intense Russian airstrikes & Assad arty fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vjbaF53q2k …
FIVE months into the conflict, #Russian media still pretends they fight #ISIS in #Latakia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwjw58EATLE …
Footage
Another village north of #Aleppo, another massacre, caused by #Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54tgy8fxrXA …
Marea - the first front against #ISIS - was severely attacked by #Russian war planes today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fpa06p6jrs …
On a single day, #Russia deliberately targeted 2 hospitals in #Syria.
What else would qualify as #terrorism?!
You search for most deadly terrorists in #Syria?
Look up into the sky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Gt-RbgiOw …
BREAKING
Brutal #Russian air strikes prep #YPG or Shiite militias offensive on #TallRifat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfrG4Uif1Nc …
Fighting kills at least 500 in Aleppo province since Syrian army offensive began: monitor
http://reut.rs/20odphL
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